TUESDAY, Dec. 14, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Compared to previous coronavirus variants, Omicron appears to cause less severe illness, but is more resistant to the Pfizer vaccine, researchers at South Africa's largest health insurer report.The team at Di...
TUESDAY, Dec. 14, 2021 (American Heart Association News) -- A few days after her 42nd birthday, Elizabeth Hindinger woke up with a searing headache. A doctor gave her a prescription to treat migraines, though she'd not had them before.A couple days la...
TUESDAY, Dec. 14, 2021 (American Heart Association News) -- Every night before bed, Pat and John Sullivan list at least three things for which they are grateful that day. Their 40 years together, each better than the last. The joy they get from art an...
MARTES, 14 de diciembre de 2021 (American Heart Association News) -- Cada noche, antes de acostarse, Pat y John Sullivan enumeran por lo menos tres cosas por las que están agradecidos ese día. Sus 40 años juntos, cada uno mejor que el anterior. La ale...
TUESDAY, Dec. 14, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Pfizer Inc. announced Tuesday that a final analysis shows its experimental antiviral pill Paxlovid sharply reduced hospitalizations and deaths among people at high risk for severe illness.The latest results, ...
TUESDAY, Dec. 14, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Pandemic lockdowns may have led fewer Americans to seek pain treatment last year, but folks who did seek help had higher-than-usual odds of receiving dangerous opioid painkillers, a new study says.And that co...
TUESDAY, Dec. 14, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- As COVID-19 cases surge nationwide, only about half of fully vaccinated nursing home residents have received a vaccine booster dose, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports.Research shows ...
TUESDAY, Dec. 14, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- A statewide indoor mask mandate will be reintroduced in California on Wednesday and last one month, officials in America's largest state said Monday."To ensure that we collectively protect the health and well...
Pfizer's antiviral could greatly reduce severe COVID. Paxlovid cut hospitalizations and deaths by nearly 90 percent when taken within three to five days after the start of symptoms, the company said, and preliminary lab studies also suggest the pill w...
TUESDAY, Dec. 14, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Stress about the COVID-19 pandemic may be eclipsing holiday joy for many older Americans, a new poll reveals.About half (47%) of 50- to 80-year-olds polled reported a mixed experience of joy and stress.One in...
TUESDAY, Dec. 14, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- "It's not rocket science," "It's not brain surgery" -- but just how smart are rocket scientists and brain surgeons, anyway?There's a good chance you're just as intelligent, a new study finds.This was an obser...
TUESDAY, Dec. 14, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- People with HIV have an added risk of heart failure, so they and their health care providers need to be alert for early signs such as shortness of breath, fatigue, leg swelling, coughing and chest pain, accor...
TUESDAY, Dec. 14, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- For certain leukemia patients, some welcome findings: New research confirms long remissions after treatment with the drug ibrutinib and chemotherapy.The study involved 85 patients with chronic lymphocytic le...
TUESDAY, Dec. 14, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Poor neighborhoods of color bore the brunt of a surge in violent crime in U.S. cities early in the COVID-19 pandemic, new research shows."This study adds to the mounting body of research showing that equal op...
MONDAY, Dec. 13, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The ability of two-dose COVID-19 vaccines to protect against symptomatic infection by the omicron variant falls significantly short, but a booster shot provides considerable protection, according to the first ...
MONDAY, Dec. 13, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The COVID-19 death toll in the United States reached 800,000 on Monday, and one expert believes it will likely hit 1 million at some point in 2022.The 800,156 confirmed deaths in the nearly two years since the...
VIERNES, 10 de diciembre de 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Los niños con un neuroblastoma, un cáncer raro, con frecuencia sucumben a la enfermedad, a pesar del tratamiento agresivo. Pero los investigadores han encontrado que añadir de inmediato un anticuerp...
VIERNES, 10 de diciembre de 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Casi la mitad de los jóvenes de 12 a 17 años de Estados Unidos han recibido al menos una dosis de una vacuna contra la COVID-19, pero la estampida inicial para vacunar a los adolescentes se ha estan...
VIERNES, 10 de diciembre de 2021 (HealthDay News) -- La variante ómicron podría replantear la forma en que los médicos tratan las infecciones con la COVID en Estados Unidos, y es probable que las pastillas antivirales lideren ese esfuerzo redoblado, a...
VIERNES, 10 de diciembre de 2021 (HealthDay News) -- El mundo no está preparado para prevenir o gestionar otra pandemia, porque muchos países no están tomando las medidas necesarias para prepararse para lo que es probable que sea una situación futura ...
VIERNES, 10 de diciembre de 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Los pacientes con cáncer están en riesgo de una enfermedad grave con la COVID-19, pero algunos todavía tienen miedo de vacunarse contra el virus, muestra una investigación reciente.Los autores del e...
VIERNES, 10 de diciembre de 2021 (HealthDay News) -- La vejiga hiperactiva no solo es una molestia y un motivo de vergüenza. En las personas mayores también puede provocar una caída potencialmente fatal, según un estudio canadiense."Las caídas son la ...
DOMINGO, 12 de diciembre de 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Esta época del año puede ser dura para el corazón.En Estados Unidos hay más muertes por ataques cardiacos entre Navidad y el Día de Año Nuevo que en cualquier otro momento del año, y la Asociación A...
LUNES, 13 de diciembre de 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Los padres de niños con un asma entre moderada y grave quizá cuenten con una opción de tratamiento muy necesaria. Un nuevo ensayo encuentra que un anticuerpo monoclonal inyectado, llamado dupilumab, r...
MONDAY, Dec. 13, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- A gene therapy that could provide a permanent cure for sickle cell disease continues to show success through a third wave of patients, researchers report.The therapy, LentiGlobin, restored normal blood functio...
MONDAY, Dec. 13, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- A new study confirms yet another consequence of the pandemic for children and teenagers: Eating disorders, and hospitalizations for them, rose sharply in 2020.The study of six hospitals across Canada found new...
MONDAY, Dec. 13, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The world is not ready to prevent or deal with another pandemic because many nations are not taking the necessary steps to prepare for what is likely an inevitable future scenario, a new report shows. The Glob...
The annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America was held from Nov. 28 to Dec. 2 in Chicago and attracted more than 19,000 participants from around the world, including radiologists, radiation oncologists, physicists in medicine, radiol...