WEDNESDAY, Jan. 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- ZIP codes with higher densities of racial and ethnic minorities and low-income groups have higher average exposures to air pollution, according to a study published online Jan. 12 in Nature.Abdulrahman Jbai...
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The absolute number of stage 3 acute kidney injury (AKI) kidneys transplanted increased from 2010 to 2020, according to a study recently published online in the American Journal of Transplantation.Caroline ...
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- A seemingly endless wait in an emergency department can be taxing for many reasons, but new research suggests that long delays in being admitted to the hospital may even raise a patient's risk of death with...
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- For many people undergoing total hip or knee replacement, same-day surgery is a safe option, new research shows.Among folks in overall good health, the study of nearly 1.8 million patients found similar pos...
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- There are racial and ethnic disparities in receipt of monoclonal antibody (mAb) treatment among patients with COVID-19, according to research published in the Jan. 14 early-release issue of the U.S. Center...
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Children with COVID-19-related multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C) have good functional recovery and coronary outcomes at three to four months, according to a study published online Jan. 19 in the Jou...
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The gap between retinal age and chronological age is associated with the risk of all-cause and cause-specific noncardiovascular, noncancer mortality, according to a study published online Jan. 18 in the Bri...
WEDNESDSAY, Jan. 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- In the Bronchiolitis Follow-up Intervention Trial (BeneFIT) setting, physicians more often determined that Hispanic patients were not appropriate for as-needed follow-up and excluded them from the trial, a...
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) – Using proteomics data, a machine learning model may predict survival in critically ill COVID-19 patients, according to a study published online Jan. 18 in PLOS Digital Health.Vadim Demichev, Ph.D., from Char...
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The 2021 U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) criteria for lung cancer screening increase eligibility compared with earlier screening criteria, with reduced racial disparity, according to a study pu...
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Two doses of the BNT162b2 vaccine are highly effective against COVID-19-related hospitalization and critical disease in adolescents aged 12 to 18 years, according to a study published online Jan. 12 in the ...
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Issues relating to consent for people who have experienced acute ischemic stroke are addressed in an American Academy of Neurology position statement published online Jan. 10 in Neurology.Justin A. Sattin, ...
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Homelessness is difficult enough, but when it's compounded by serious mental health issues the result can be an inability to function at even the most basic level.Sometimes that leads to round-the-clock inv...
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 19, 2022 (American Heart Association News) -- The way freelance photographer Donna Dymally sees it, snapping pictures imparts important life lessons."Focus on what's important, and if you don't like the shot, take another one," she sai...
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- A rare and serious inflammatory condition called MIS-C can strike kids weeks after they've recovered from their COVID infection.But now there's good news for parents: Children tend to recover completely fr...
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The Biden administrations plans to announce Wednesday that it will send 400 million free nonsurgical N95 masks to community health centers and pharmacies across the country so more Americans can get the mas...
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- If COVID-19 vaccines and medicines are shared equally worldwide, the pandemic could ease this year, a top World Health Organization official said Tuesday.However, if wealthier countries don't share their re...
Kids with COVID-linked condition recover heart function. The rare but serious inflammatory condition called MIS-C can strike kids weeks after they've recovered from their COVID infection. But new data now shows that children tend to recover completely...
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Breastfeeding moms can rest easier: New research finds no evidence their milk transmits the virus that causes COVID-19 to their babies.“Breast milk is an invaluable source of nutrition to infants," said lea...
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- No magic bullet exists for ending the U.S. opioid crisis, but there's hopeful news for one high-risk population: Providing addiction medication in jails reduces the odds of addicts being re-arrested after ...
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Did you watch your waistline expand during lockdown? You're not alone.Nearly half of U.S. adults piled on excess pounds during the first year of the pandemic, making a national obesity crisis even worse, a...
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Even if you don't have side effects from your COVID-19 vaccine, it's likely still working to protect you, a reassuring new report shows.Many people who receive the mRNA COVID vaccines by Pfizer and Moderna ...
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Big surprise bills for any colonoscopy done after a positive result from a stool-based screening test will be prevented under new federal rules, a group of U.S. medical organizations say.On Jan. 10, the Bid...
TUESDAY, Jan. 18, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommends that physicians individualize the decision to refer adults without known cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors to behavioral counseling interven...
TUESDAY, Jan. 18, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The addition of a P2Y12 inhibitor to anticoagulant therapy does not improve organ support-free days among non-critically ill patients hospitalized for COVID-19, according to a study published in the Jan. 18 i...
TUESDAY, Jan. 18, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Real-world data show steady improvement in overall survival (OS) for patients with Philadelphia-positive (Ph+) acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) who experienced relapse after allogeneic hematopoietic cell tr...
TUESDAY, Jan. 18, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- It was slated to debut on Wednesday, but the federal government quietly launched its website for Americans to order free at-home COVID-19 tests one day early.By going to COVIDTests.gov, individuals can quickl...
TUESDAY, Jan. 18, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- It is too soon to determine whether omicron's rapid spread will turn a pandemic virus into an endemic disease, America's top infectious disease expert says.That "would only be the case if we don't get another...