SUNDAY, Dec. 5, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- If you're a patient with a weakened immune system, roll up your sleeves to stay safe over the holidays and winter months."Immunocompromised patients absolutely should get a flu shot as well as an additional CO...
SATURDAY, Dec. 4, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Planning ahead will reduce the risk of allergies and asthma interfering with your holiday plans, an expert says."In addition to concerns about COVID-19, those with allergies and asthma sometimes have an added...
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 Nov. 29 to Dec. 3, 2021. This roundup includes the latest research news from journal studies and other trusted...
JUEVES, 2 de diciembre de 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Apenas un día después de que se reportara el primer caso de ómicron en Estados Unidos, las autoridades federales anunciaron un segundo caso el jueves, esta vez el de un hombre de Minnesota que viajó a...
JUEVES, 2 de diciembre de 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Los niños y los adolescentes vacunados contra el virus de las paperas han conformado alrededor de un tercio de las infecciones en los últimos años, encuentra un nuevo estudio del gobierno de EE. UU.Lo...
JUEVES, 2 de diciembre de 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Los estudiantes universitarios no se están recuperando de los cambios provocados por la pandemia de COVID-19, encuentra un problemático nuevo estudio.A los investigadores les sorprendió encontrar que ...
JUEVES, 2 de diciembre de 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Las personas que se han recuperado de un caso grave de COVID-19 quizá tengan algo más de qué preocuparse. Una investigación reciente encuentra que los pacientes hospitalizados por una COVID-19 tienen ...
JUEVES, 2 de diciembre de 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Dejar de fumar es especialmente importante durante el embarazo, y ahora un nuevo estudio sugiere que cuando se trata de abandonar el hábito, el dinero en efectivo quizá sea justo el incentivo que algu...
JUEVES, 2 de diciembre de 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Los perros señal (o perros para personas sordas) hacen una gran diferencia en las vidas de las personas sordas, muestra un nuevo estudio británico.Los perros están entrenados para avisar a las persona...
JUEVES, 2 de diciembre de 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Los que piensan que vapear es más seguro que fumar se lo deben pensar de nuevo.Un nuevo estudio advierte que vapear desencadena los mismos cambios en la regulación de los genes que fumar, así que podr...
VIERNES, 3 de diciembre de 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Se detectaron cinco casos de la variante ómicron del coronavirus en el estado de Nueva York, uno en Minnesota y uno en Hawái, anunciaron el jueves los funcionarios de esos estados.Esto lleva el total...
FRIDAY, Dec. 3, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- People who have already had COVID-19 have a higher risk of reinfection with the omicron coronavirus variant than with earlier variants, new research shows. The South African scientists who reported the findings...
FRIDAY, Dec. 3, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Most vaccinated American adults have every intention of getting booster shots, a new poll finds.Only about one in five say they will not get it, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) survey conducted wi...
FRIDAY, Dec. 3, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Five cases of the omicron coronavirus variant have been detected in New York state, one in Minnesota, and one in Hawaii, officials in those states announced Thursday. That brings the known total in the United S...
FRIDAY, Dec. 3, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- People who've already had COVID-19 have a higher risk of reinfection with the Omicron coronavirus variant than with earlier variants, new research shows. The South African scientists who reported the findings ...
FRIDAY, Dec. 3, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- A rare gene variant discovered among Amish people may help lower "bad" cholesterol and protect against heart disease, a new study suggests.Researchers found that among nearly 7,000 Amish people, the gene varian...
FRIDAY, Dec. 3, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- A boy or a girl? New research suggests that the air pregnant women breathe or the water they drink could play a role in their baby's sex.The finding stems from tracking hundreds of factors — including pollutio...
FRIDAY, Dec. 3, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Women are two times more likely than men to die after receiving a combination of cancer immunotherapy drugs called checkpoint inhibitors, but it's not clear if that difference is due to side effects or because ...
FRIDAY, Dec. 3, 2021 (American Heart Association News) -- In second grade, Emily Meister was performing as Gretl Von Trapp in the local high school production of "The Sound of Music" when she felt her heart beating unusually fast. She also sensed pres...
FRIDAY, Dec. 3, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Five cases of the Omicron coronavirus variant have been detected in New York state, one in Minnesota and one in Hawaii, officials in those states announced Thursday.That brings the known total in the United Sta...
FRIDAY, Dec. 3, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Lab studies show that the mutations found in COVID-19's Delta variant make the virus more resistant to existing vaccines, a potentially ominous development as the new Omicron variant starts to wend its way arou...
FRIDAY, Dec. 3, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Most vaccinated American adults have every intention of getting booster shots, a new poll finds.Only about one in five say they won't get it, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) survey conducted with ...
FRIDAY, Dec. 3, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Older Black Americans are much more likely to have good hearing than white Americans, and the difference is especially notable among men, a new study shows.“We found that among males, non-Hispanic Black America...
FRIDAY, Dec. 3, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- A genetic test can identify older breast cancer patients who can forgo chemotherapy after surgery, even if the cancer has spread to nearby lymph nodes, a large international clinical trial shows."For decades, ...
FRIDAY, Dec. 3, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Nearly 13 million U.S. adults a year skip or delay filling needed prescriptions due to high price tags, new research shows.This figure includes more than 2.3 million Medicare beneficiaries and 3.8 million priva...
FRIDAY, Dec. 3, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- COVID-19 lockdowns brought surprising news to scientists studying pollution: Cars spew much more ammonia into the air than previously thought.Ammonia is a common air pollutant that's a major cause of lung and h...