MONDAY, Aug. 14, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Many Americans diagnosed with cancer continue to drink alcohol regularly — sometimes heavily and sometimes during treatment, a new study shows.The study, of over 15,000 U.S. cancer survivors, found that 78% we...
MONDAY, Aug. 14, 2023 (HealthDay News) – The family of Henrietta Lacks has filed another in a series of planned lawsuits over the use of Lacks’ cells without her knowledge or consent. Known as the HeLa cell line, it has changed modern medicine because...
MONDAY, Aug. 14, 2023 (HealthDay News) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has warned that consumers should not use certain pregnancy, ovulation, urine, UTI and breast milk test kits over concerns that the tests may not be safe and effective.The t...
MONDAY, Aug. 14, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- A new scientific paper highlights a little-known symptom of long COVID: blue legs.Called acrocyanosis, it happened to a 33-year-old man cared for by Dr. Manoj Sivan at the University of Leeds in the United Kin...
MONDAY, Aug. 14, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- The federal government recently stopped pandemic-related emergency food aid, leaving perhaps 2 million more Americans without enough to eat.Emergency allotments in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program...
MONDAY, Aug. 14, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Some menstrual products -- pads, tampons, cups and underwear -- contain harmful “forever chemicals,” according to new research into the contents of these essential items.Researchers analyzed more than 100 peri...
MONDAY, Aug. 14, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- If you’re moving into a home where smokers lived, the first thing you should do to protect your lungs is rip out any old carpeting, new research suggests.Scientists found that tobacco smoke clings to carpet fi...
SUNDAY, Aug. 13, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Keeping to a consistent bedtime routine is the key to helping your kids get restful and refreshing sleep.Fortunately, about 81% of parents with kids under 18 surveyed by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine ...
SATURDAY, Aug. 12, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Heading back to school requires supplies and planning for all, but if you’re a parent of a child with allergies or asthma then you have even more to consider.“The start of a new school year is exciting for s...
FRIDAY, Aug. 11, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with Parkinson disease (PD), those whose caregivers have depression symptoms have worse quality of life (QOL) and higher emergency department use, according to a study published online Aug. 11 in ...
FRIDAY, Aug. 11, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday recalled a brand of soft-serve ice cream after linking it to Listeria cases in Pennsylvania and New York. The product, Soft Serve On The Go ice cream cups, was...
FRIDAY, Aug. 11, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- A bankruptcy deal that would have shielded the family behind the company that makes Oxycontin from civil lawsuits was temporarily blocked by the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday. President Joe Biden had asked fo...
FRIDAY, Aug. 11, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- As demand for the wildly popular weight-loss drug Wegovy continues to climb, drug maker Novo Nordisk said Thursday that it will continue restrictions on starter doses of the medication into 2024. The new plan ...
FRIDAY, Aug. 11, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Parents and caregivers are being advised to immediately stop using La-La-Me Infant Loungers because they pose a risk to babies of suffocation and falling.The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) issu...
FRIDAY, Aug. 11, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- The link between pro football and the risk for a neurodegenerative disease called chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is well known, and now a new study suggests that football may also up the risk for Parki...
JUEVES, 10 de agosto de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- A la mayoría de las personas con apendicitis que reciben antibióticos, en lugar de que se extirpe su apéndice, les va bien a largo plazo, indica una nueva investigación. La conclusión surge de unas dos ...
JUEVES, 10 de agosto de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Los adultos mayores que usan ciertos antiácidos durante años quizá tengan un riesgo más alto de desarrollar demencia, sugiere un estudio reciente. El estudio, que se publicó en la edición del 9 de agost...
JUEVES, 10 de agosto de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- En las últimas tres décadas, los riesgos cardiacos que plantea la contaminación atmosférica han aumentado en todo el mundo, afirma un nuevo estudio. El número anual de muertes prematuras y años de disca...
JUEVES, 10 de agosto de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Los antidepresivos modernos podrían ser efectivos para el tratamiento a largo plazo de algunos pacientes con un trastorno bipolar, sugiere un ensayo reciente. Las directrices actuales desaconsejan el us...
JUEVES, 10 de agosto de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Quizá no reciba tanta publicidad como otras vitaminas mejor conocidas, por ejemplo la vitamina D, pero la vitamina K (que se encuentra en las verduras de hojas verdes) podría mejorar la salud de los pul...
JUEVES, 10 de agosto de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Parece que hay microplásticos en todos sitios, incluso dentro de los tejidos del corazón humano. Un nuevo informe chino describe que los médicos encontraron microplásticos en el tejido cardiaco tanto an...
JUEVES, 10 de agosto de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Mientras los investigadores siguen intentando comprender mejor la afección conocida como COVID prolongada, un nuevo estudio ha descubierto que los síntomas pueden surgir meses tras una infección, e incl...
JUEVES, 10 de agosto de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Las personas con autismo tienen más de tres veces más probabilidades que sus pares sin el trastorno del desarrollo de experimentar autolesiones, ideación suicida, intentos de suicidio o de morir por sui...
From diabetes drug to celebrity weight-loss secret to blockbuster drug, Ozempic has become a household name.Just a year ago, my patients at Yale School of Medicine had never heard of Ozempic. Now, they come to me asking for it by name.Ozempic (semaglu...
FRIDAY, Aug. 11, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- A single hardwired brain circuit might be responsible for male sexual drive, a new mouse study reports.Researchers have singled out in lab mice a brain region that controls sexual interest, libido, mating beha...
FRIDAY, Aug. 11, 2023 (American Heart Association News) -- If you get cross-eyed thinking about carbohydrates, that's understandable.They can be, quite literally, both simple and complex. They abound in snacks that nobody would call healthy but also a...
FRIDAY, Aug. 11, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Children with and without fetal exposure to antiseizure medications have no differences in neurodevelopmental outcomes, although secondary analyses show some exposure-dependent antiseizure medication effects, ...
FRIDAY, Aug. 11, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- An increase in 39-week induction rates and a decrease in cesarean delivery (CD) rates were seen following publication of A Randomized Trial of Induction vs Expectant Management (ARRIVE) in August 2018, accordi...
FRIDAY, Aug. 11, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Psoriasis is associated with rheumatic diseases, according to a study published online Aug. 5 in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology.Mimi Chung, from the University of California in San Francisc...
FRIDAY, Aug. 11, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Low vitamin K status is associated with lower ventilatory capacity and with increased odds of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), wheezing, and asthma, according to a study published online Aug. 9 in...