MONDAY, Oct. 4, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- There has been a significant increase in COVID-19-related deaths in nursing homes as the highly contagious delta spreads across the country, a new analysis shows."While the vast majority of COVID-19 deaths happ...
MONDAY, Oct. 4, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Johnson & Johnson plans to ask the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to approve emergency use of a booster shot of its single-dose COVID-19 vaccine early this week.While the request has yet to be submitted, the...
MONDAY, Oct. 4, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The United States has now surpassed 700,000 COVID-19 deaths, as the highly contagious delta variant continues to hold the country in its grip.America continues to have more COVID-19 deaths than any other countr...
MONDAY, Oct. 4, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Booster shots of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for people aged 18 years and older have been given the green light by the European Medicines Agency.The booster shots "may be considered at least six months...
MONDAY, Oct. 4, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Two American researchers have been awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries that could help ease chronic and acute pain.The prize was given jointly on Monday to David Julius and...
VIERNES, 1 de octubre de 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Una cuarta parte de los padres de EE. UU. reportan que sus hijos han tenido que hacer una cuarentena debido a una posible exposición a la COVID-19 en algún momento desde el inicio de la escuela, encuen...
VIERNES, 1 de octubre de 2021 (HealthDay News) -- La pandemia de COVID-19 ha revolucionado la crisis de opioides en EE. UU., de formas malas y buenas, ya que aumentó el riesgo de uso y sobredosis, pero también fomentó unos métodos innovadores para el ...
VIERNES, 21 de octubre de 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Una pequeña adaptación podría hacer que leer sea un poco más fácil para los niños con dislexia, y también para sus compañeros de aula: aumentar la cantidad de espacio entre las letras impresas.Este es...
VIERNES, 1 de octubre de 2021 (HealthDay News) -- La gigante farmacéutica Merck & Co. dijo el viernes que buscará la aprobación federal para el uso de emergencia de su nueva pastilla antiviral, molnupiravir, después de que un ensayo clínico mostrara q...
VIERNES, 1 de octubre de 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Resulta que la pandemia ha tenido un beneficio inesperado: a medida que los adolescentes se quedaban en casa con más frecuencia, la utilización de los cigarrillos electrónicos se redujo en casi un 40 p...
VIERNES, 1 de octubre de 2021 (HealthDay News) -- La diabetes tipo 2 podría aumentar el riesgo de enfermedad de Alzheimer al alterar la función del cerebro, sugiere una investigación reciente con animales.Un equipo de la Universidad de Nevada, en Las ...
VIERNES, 1 de octubre de 2021 (HealthDay News) -- El acoso de parte de un hermano o hermana en la niñez puede tener efectos duraderos, y amenaza la salud mental en la adolescencia, sugiere una nueva investigación británica.Los investigadores encontrar...
VIERNES, 1 de octubre de 2021 (HealthDay News) -- ¿Intenta perder peso? Es probable que las bebidas de dieta no le ayuden, advierten unos investigadores.Y las que contienen sucralosa, un edulcorante artificial, podrían incluso aumentar el deseo intens...
MONDAY, Oct. 4, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Booster shots of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine for people aged 18 and older have been given the green light by the European Medicines Agency.They "may be considered at least six months after the secon...
MONDAY, Oct. 4, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- From the fear of getting sick to lockdown isolation, the COVID-19 pandemic dramatically increased stress levels, and for many women, the uptick led to changes in their monthly periods.More than half of responde...
MONDAY, Oct. 4, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Two American researchers have been awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries that could help ease chronic and acute pain.The prize was given jointly on Monday to David Julius and...
MONDAY, Oct. 4, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Imagine battling debilitating depression for years, trying everything but finding little or no relief.That's what Sarah, 36, lived with most of her adult life. "I had exhausted all possible treatment options," ...
MONDAY, Oct. 4, 2021 (American Heart Association News) -- How do you feel about yourself and your place in society? The answer could affect not just your state of mind, but your actual health."When you ask people to make a social comparison of where t...
MONDAY, Oct. 4, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- People newly infected with COVID-19 might soon have access to what essentially is Tamiflu for the novel coronavirus, a breakthrough that experts say would drastically alter the course of the ongoing pandemic.At...
New, better antivirals against COVID-19 are on the way. On Friday, drug giant Merck announced it would seek FDA emergency use approval for a powerful new antiviral, molnupiravir. At least two more such drugs that target the SARS-CoV-2 virus are in t...
MONDAY, Oct. 4, 2021 (Healthday News) -- Johnson & Johnson plans to ask the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to approve emergency use of a booster shot of its single-dose COVID-19 vaccine early this week.While the request has yet to be submitted, the...
MONDAY, Oct. 4, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- In a health emergency, social media giants like Facebook can be both quagmires of misinformation and sources of social support and reliable guidance, a small, new study suggests.Researchers surveyed 32 Facebook...
MONDAY, Oct. 4, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The United States has now surpassed 700,000 coronavirus deaths, as the highly contagious Delta variant continues to hold the country in its grip.America continues to have more COVID-19 deaths than any other the...
MONDAY, Oct. 4, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Black kids and Hispanic kids with cancer fare worse than their white counterparts, a large, nationwide study finds."This study suggests that improving health insurance coverage and access to care for children, ...
MONDAY, Oct. 4, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Colon cancer numbers dropped dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic, but that doesn't mean fewer people have the disease.In Spain, researchers discovered a more than 40% decline in colon cancer diagnoses, le...
MONDAY, Oct. 4, 2021 (HealthDay News) – There has been a significant increase in COVID-related deaths in nursing homes as the highly contagious Delta spreads across the country, a new analysis shows."While the vast majority of COVID-19 deaths happened...
MONDAY, Oct. 4, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- There's some encouraging news for people who develop lung cancer even though they've never smoked.Precision drugs already approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration can be used to treat 78% to 92% of the...
MONDAY, Oct. 4, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The size and shape of the blood vessels in your brain may help predict your risk of an often-fatal type of stroke, called an aneurysm, a new study finds. An aneurysm is a bulge in an artery wall. "A subarachnoi...