THURSDAY, Dec. 16, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Coping with the isolation, fear and sadness of the pandemic may have been a little easier if you had a trusting and loving dog by your side.But you don't need to tell that to Francois Martin, a researcher wh...
THURSDAY, Dec. 16, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- There may be a silver lining to the COVID-19 pandemic, with U.S. health officials reporting an "unprecedented" decline in teens' use of alcohol, marijuana, other illegal drugs and vaping."We have never seen ...
THURSDAY, Dec. 16, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Following continued reports of a rare but life-threatening clotting condition linked to the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine, a federal advisory panel will meet Thursday to once again weigh the safety o...
THURSDAY, Dec. 16, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Along with being contaminated, there was also a basic design flaw in COVID-19 testing kits created by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention early in the pandemic, a new agency review shows.It w...
THURSDAY, Dec. 16, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- After nearly dying from a severe case of COVID-19, a young male patient received a successful heart transplant even as he was recuperating from his infection while on a ventilator, a new case study reports.T...
THURSDAY, Dec. 16, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Children and teens who use livestreaming gaming platforms may be bombarded with influencer-endorsed ads for energy drinks, junk food and alcohol, new research shows."This type of marketing can normalize high...
THURSDAY, Dec. 16, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Have you just turned 60 and feel like you're in great health? Well, new research suggests that unseen dangers lurk: Scientists found that cancer-free people older than 60 have at least 100 billion cells with...
THURSDAY, Dec. 16, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- While strokes and related deaths have declined in rich nations, they remain stubbornly high worldwide, a new study says.Author Liyuan Han attributed the overall decreases to "better medical services in high-...
Canine companions helped folks cope with the pandemic. A new study of 1,500 people shows living with a dog gave individuals a stronger sense of social support and eased some of the negative psychological effects of the pandemic. Read moreCDC panel to ...
MARTES, 14 de diciembre de 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Las formas sintéticas del fentanilo, un opioide potencialmente letal, están inundando los mercados de drogas ilícitas, lo que tiene como consecuencia un creciente número de sobredosis letales, encuen...
MARTES, 14 de diciembre de 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Las personas con síntomas de depresión quizá encuentren algo de ayuda en los programas en línea o en las aplicaciones para teléfonos inteligentes, pero el componente humano sigue siendo clave, sugier...
MARTES, 14 de diciembre de 2021 (HealthDay News) -- "He estado triste; Me he tomado mi tiempo; Siento que estoy loco; Siento que mi vida no es mía; ¿Quién se ve reflejado?".Una nueva investigación sugiere que muchos estadounidenses sí se vieron reflej...
MARTES, 14 de diciembre de 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Pfizer Inc. anunció el martes que un análisis final muestra que su pastilla antiviral experimental, Paxlovid, redujo de forma marcada las hospitalizaciones y las muertes entre las personas con un rie...
MARTES, 14 de diciembre de 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Mientras los casos de COVID-19 se disparan en todo el país, apenas alrededor de la mitad de los residentes de hogares de ancianos que se han vacunado del todo han recibido una dosis de refuerzo de la...
MARTES, 14 de diciembre de 2021 (HealthDay News) -- El estrés por la pandemia de COVID-19 quizá esté eclipsando la alegría que muchos estadounidenses mayores sienten durante la temporada de fiestas de fin de año, revela una encuesta reciente.Alrededor...
MARTES, 14 de diciembre de 2021 (HealthDay News) -- "No es ciencia espacial", "no es cirugía cerebral"… pero, ¿qué tan inteligentes son en realidad los científicos espaciales y los neurocirujanos?Un estudio reciente encuentra que hay muchas probabilid...
MIÉRCOLES, 15 de diciembre de 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Cuando se trata de defenderse de nuevos virus, el bebé le gana a mamá y a papá.El sistema inmunitario de un bebé supera al de un adulto al luchar contra los nuevos virus, afirman unos investigador...
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 15, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- An experimental drug, added to chemotherapy, may benefit women with an aggressive form of breast cancer, suggests an early study offering much-needed good news.The study involved women with "triple-negative...
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 15, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The omicron variant is spreading rapidly in the United States and could trigger a huge wave of COVID-19 infections as early as January, federal health officials said Tuesday.In just one week, there was a se...
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 15, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Couples struggling to conceive a child through in vitro fertilization (IVF) sometimes are offered an often-painful procedure known as "scratching the womb" as a desperate last hope to get pregnant.As many a...
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 15, 2021 (American Heart Association News) -- And just like that, heart health and exercise became the talk of the town.By now it's not a spoiler to say that in the latest "Sex and the City" revival, the character known as Mr. Big, pla...
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 15, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Kids with severe epilepsy may take multiple medications and follow special diets, yet still suffer seizures. Now a small study suggests medical marijuana may sometimes help when other therapies fail.British...
The annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium was held from Dec. 7 to 10 in San Antonio and attracted 8,000 participants from around the world, including medical oncologists, radiation oncologists, researchers, and other health care professionals. Th...
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 15, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Margarine has gotten a bad rap for years, but a U.S. ban on partially hydrogenated oils may have made it a healthier choice than butter, a new study suggests.Before the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ban...
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 15, 2021 (American Heart Association News) -- A tool widely used by doctors to help determine who needs clot-busting therapy after a stroke has some missing pieces, according to new research that suggests adding a few simple tests coul...
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 15, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The Omicron variant is spreading rapidly in the United States and could trigger a huge wave of COVID infections as early as January, federal health officials said Tuesday.In just one week there was a sevenf...
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 15, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- "Medicare For All" gets tossed around a lot by advocates of universal health coverage, but a new study finds that today's Medicare is far from free for seniors and people with disabilities.Instead, a large ...
Omicron could trigger big surge in infections by January. A sevenfold spike in Omicron prevalence in just one week could portend a worst-case scenario where a huge wave of infections swamps U.S. hospitals as soon as next month, the CDC warns. Read mo...
