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 th...
MONDAY, Dec. 13, 2021 (American Heart Association News) -- After four years in a Washington state prison for first-degree burglary, Chelsey Johnson learned she was eligible for a work-release program that would shave the final year off her sentence.Sh...
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) -- Big "surprise" medical bills may still be a problem for Americans.According to a new study, more than half of U.S. hospitals haven't complied with recent regulations requiring that they disclose their prices o...
MONDAY, Dec. 13, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- You can’t always choose who operates on you, especially in an emergency, but the sex of your surgeon shouldn’t matter, should it?It just may, according to a Canadian study of 1.3 million people.It reported tha...
MONDAY, Dec. 13, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The sound of mom's voice can soothe a fussy baby like nothing else, but now new research suggests that an infant is also calmed by the scent of its mother.Prior animal studies had already shown that olfaction ...
First real-world studies into vaccine effectiveness against Omicron. The ability of two-dose COVID-19 vaccines to protect against symptomatic infection by the Omicron variant falls significantly short, British research shows, but a booster shot provid...
MONDAY, Dec. 13, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Parents of children with moderate-to-severe asthma may have a much-needed treatment option: A new trial finds that an injected monoclonal antibody drug called dupilumab significantly reduces a child's odds o...
MONDAY, Dec. 13, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- You may feel silly doing it, but baby talk helps your infant learn the basics of human language, a new study suggests.By mimicking the sound of a smaller vocal tract, baby talk guides babies on how words shoul...
MONDAY, Dec. 13, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Older adults have a higher risk of delirium after hip and knee surgery if they're taking anxiety, depression or insomnia drugs, researchers say."Our findings show that different classes of medicine are riskier...
MONDAY, Dec. 13, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Long COVID can be tough to diagnose in children, but there are a number of things to look for.“Many children don’t have any symptoms when they have a COVID infection,” said Dr. Sindhu Mohandas, a pediatric inf...
MONDAY, Dec. 13, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- They take care of others, but many U.S. home health care workers say they're not in good shape themselves, a new study finds. Researchers analyzed self-reported data collected from nearly 3,000 home health ca...
SUNDAY, Dec. 12, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- This time of year can be hard on the heart. The United States has more heart attack deaths between Christmas and New Year's Day than at any other time of year, so the American Heart Association (AHA) offers so...
SATURDAY, Dec. 11, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Fever-related seizures in young children can be alarming for parents, but they're usually not life-threatening, an expert says.During a so-called febrile seizure, a child may lose consciousness, experience b...
Here is what the editors at Physician's Briefing chose as the most important COVID-19 developments for you and your practice for the week of Dec. 6 to 10, 2021. This roundup includes the latest research news from journal studies and other trusted sour...
MIÉRCOLES, 8 de diciembre de 2021 (HealthDay News) -- ¿Puede la hora del día a la que se ponga la vacuna contra la COVID-19 afectar a la cantidad de anticuerpos que producirá?Un nuevo estudio sugiere que sí.Los investigadores encontraron unos niveles ...
JUEVES, 9 de diciembre de 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Los niños que están en riesgo de desarrollar esclerosis múltiple (EM) quizá obtengan cierta protección de la enfermedad si pasan más tiempo al sol, sugiere un estudio de tamaño reducido.Aunque la EM e...
JUEVES, 9 de diciembre de 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Una afección conocida como "retinopatía diabética" con frecuencia amenaza a la vista de los adultos con diabetes, pero una nueva investigación sugiere que los niños con diabetes tipo 2 podrían tener u...
VIERNES, 10 de diciembre de 2021 (HealthDay News) -- La falta de aliento de las personas que tienen una "COVID prolongada" quizá no se trate solo de los pulmones, sino que podría indicar un caño cardiaco por la enfermedad, sugiere una investigación re...
JUEVES, 9 de diciembre de 2021 (HealthDay News) -- El miércoles, Estados Unidos llegó a un hito en la vacunación, cuando las autoridades de salud anunciaron que 200 millones de estadounidenses ya están vacunados por completo.Pero la noticia llegó mien...
JUEVES, 9 de diciembre de 2021 (HealthDay News) -- El coronavirus parece dirigirse tanto a las células adiposas (de grasa) como a las células inmunitarias dentro de la grasa corporal, lo que podría explicar por qué las personas con sobrepeso y obesas ...
Extirpar los ovarios durante una histerectomía antes de los 50 puede conllevar riesgos para la salud
JUEVES, 9 de diciembre de 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Una investigación reciente sobre las histerectomías en mujeres que no tienen cáncer determinó que hay una edad en la que es más seguro que también se extirpen los ovarios y las trompas de Falopio, y u...
JUEVES, 9 de diciembre de 2021 (HealthDay News) -- El aire contaminado podría cancelar algunos de los beneficios cerebrales del ejercicio, sugiere un estudio reciente."La actividad física se asocia con una mejora en los marcadores de salud cerebral en...
VIERNES, 10 de diciembre de 2021 (HealthDay News) -- La puntera tecnología de ARNm otorgó a un mundo en crisis unas vacunas seguras y efectivas contra la COVID-19... ¿podría hacer lo mismo contra un enemigo mucho más antiguo, el VIH?Una vacuna experim...
FRIDAY, Dec. 10, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Nearly half of 12- to 17-year-olds in the United States have had at least one COVID-19 vaccine shot, but the initial rush to get teens immunized has stalled, a new survey of parents shows. Only 1 percent of pa...
FRIDAY, Dec. 10, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Abortion providers in Texas can sue state officials in federal court over the state's new abortion law, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Friday, but it refused to block the law while such legal actions may be take...
FRIDAY, Dec. 10, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Abortion providers in Texas can sue state officials in federal court over the state's new abortion law, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Friday, but it refused to block the law while such legal actions may be take...
FRIDAY, Dec. 10, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Children with the rare cancer neuroblastoma often succumb to the disease despite aggressive treatment. But researchers have found that adding an experimental antibody to that treatment, right off the bat, may ...