MARTES, 9 de noviembre de 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Los afroamericanos jóvenes están experimentando unos aumentos significativos en la obesidad, la diabetes tipo 2 y el tabaquismo, todos factores de riesgo del ataque cardiaco y el accidente cerebrovasc...
MARTES, 9 de noviembre de 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Aunque los cierres de la pandemia quizá le hayan hecho un favor a la atmósfera del planeta, un nuevo estudio predice que las máscaras, guantes y protectores faciales desechados añadirán más de 25,000 ...
MARTES, 9 de noviembre de 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Más de dos tercios de los estadounidenses estarían dispuestos a probar alternativas a los opioides recetados para controlar el dolor tras una cirugía, muestra una encuesta reciente.Estados Unidos se e...
MARTES, 9 de noviembre de 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Las escuelas pueden proveer soluciones para los niños que se enfrentan a la depresión, sugiere un estudio reciente.Los estudiantes que reciben pruebas de detección de la depresión en la escuela tienen...
MARTES, 9 de noviembre de 2021 (HealthDay News) -- La educación sexual ha sido algo común en la educación pública durante décadas, pero una nueva investigación muestra que apenas la mitad de los adolescentes estadounidenses están recibiendo una educac...
MARTES, 9 de noviembre de 2021 (HealthDay News) -- La insuficiencia cardiaca sigue siendo una importante causa de muerte entre los millones de estadounidenses que están en Medicare. Entonces, es alarmante que menos de un 10 por ciento de los beneficia...
MARTES, 9 de noviembre de 2021 (HealthDay News) -- La grasa abdominal. Nadie la desea, pero las mujeres son mucho más duras consigo mismas que los hombres sobre el aumento de peso en la zona abdominal, con independencia de cuánto pesan. Y cuánto más s...
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 10, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- About 900,000 U.S. children aged 5 to 11 received their initial dose of Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine during the first week of eligibility for that age group, the Biden administration said Wednesday.Not only...
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 10, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- If the U.S. Food and Drug Administration wants to know whether it should follow through on its proposed menthol cigarette ban, it need only look to Canada for an answer.A new study finds that Canada's ban o...
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 10, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- While deaths from sepsis have dropped in the United States since 2000, older Americans remain particularly susceptible to the life-threatening bacterial infection, new government data shows.Sepsis strikes r...
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 10, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Illustrating the power of the mind to heal itself, new research suggests that the placebo effect could help drive antidepressants' effects against anxiety disorders.The placebo effect refers to an increase ...
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 10, 2021 (American Heart Association News) -- Depression remained common during the pandemic and worsened for some people, according to a new study aiming to cast light on links between the pandemic and mental health.Researchers examin...
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 10, 2021 (American Heart Association News) -- Acrolein, crotonaldehyde and styrene, compounds found in everything from cigarette smoke to plastics, were associated with higher blood pressure measurements for both the top, systolic, and...
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 10, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- As concerns mount that holiday travel and indoor gatherings will foster the spread of COVID-19, Pfizer on Tuesday asked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to approve booster shots of its coronavirus vacc...
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 10, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The COVID-19 pandemic has offered some lessons on respiratory disease transmission, and now a new review suggests that hospitals could use those insights to create even smarter infection-control policies.Th...
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 10, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Dr. Kim Huffman, an avid runner, gets a fair amount of guff from friends about the impact that her favorite exercise has on her body."People all the time tell me, 'Oh, you wait until you're 60. Your knees a...
WEDNESDAY, Nov 10, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Shining a light on the powerful link between the mind and body, a new study suggests that cardiac arrest survivors who learn to focus their thoughts on the here and now during recovery are less likely to bec...
Pfizer seeks FDA OK of COVID booster shots for all adults. The request was filed late Tuesday and the FDA has said it would move quickly to expand booster use if there's a need. Boosters for adults 65 and older were approved last month. Read more Pand...
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 10, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- A previous court ruling that ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay Oklahoma $465 million for the company's role in the opioid epidemic was tossed out by the state's highest court on Tuesday.In a 5-1 vote, the Ok...
WEDNESDAY, Nov.10, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- A key to reduced Alzheimer's disease risk in women could be how much of the hormone estrogen they're able to stockpile over the years, new research suggests.Certain lifetime choices — such as having more chi...
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 10, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- It may look like bad news, but a new study says it's not: The number of people younger than 21 who had total hip replacement surgery in the United States jumped from 347 in 2000 to 551 in 2016.The increase ...
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 10, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Despite a nationwide effort to control blood pressure, the number of seniors hospitalized for a sudden, sharp rise in blood pressure surged over the last two decades in the United States.The largest increa...
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 10, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Black, Hispanic and Asian men in the United States are less likely than white men to receive a follow-up MRI after a screening suggests prostate cancer, a new study finds."We can't say definitively if the r...
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 10, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers have identified two previously unrecognized symptoms of pancreatic cancer -- a discovery that might help with earlier detection and improve extremely low survival numbers, they say."When pancrea...
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