THURSDAY, Sept. 16, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- As severe cases of COVID-19 rise and demand surges for monoclonal antibody treatments, the U.S. government is ordering more from two key suppliers.The Biden administration has also taken over distributing t...
THURSDAY, Sept. 16, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. National Institutes of Health is spending nearly $470 million to study the long-term effects of COVID-19, the agency announced Wednesday.NIH has awarded a "parent" grant to New York University (NYU...
THURSDAY, Sept. 16, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The cost of providing hospital care for unvaccinated Americans has reached $5.7 billion in just three months, CBS News reported.Between June and August, about 287,000 people who were not vaccinated were hos...
THURSDAY, Sept. 16, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Movement can be very difficult for people with Parkinson's disease, as shaking and stiffness play havoc with balance, coordination and gait.There are many different tricks Parkinson's patients can use to im...
THURSDAY, Sept. 16, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The White House has reached out to rapper Nicki Minaj over her concerns about the COVID-19 vaccine, which she said had caused swollen testicles in a friend of her cousin in Trinidad.A White House official s...
MIÉRCOLES, 15 de septiembre de 2021 (HealthDay News) -- En unas semanas o unos meses, quizá vaya al consultorio del médico o a la farmacia para ponerse su vacuna anual contra la gripe junto con una dosis de una vacuna contra la COVID.Lamentablemente, ...
MIÉRCOLES, 15 de septiembre de 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Recibir la autorización previa para ver a un especialista, resolver los errores en las facturas médicas, e incluso programar una cita puede ser una gran molestia.Esto está claro para todo el que ...
MIÉRCOLES, 15 de septiembre de 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Resistirse a esos grandes ojos tristes en el escaparate de una tienda de mascotas resulta difícil. Pero el comprador debe tener cuidado. Los cachorros de las tiendas de mascotas podrían infectar ...
Las vacunas contra la COVID para los niños menores de 12 años podrían llegar este otoño, según Fauci
MIÉRCOLES, 15 de septiembre de 2021 (HealthDay News) -- El deseo de muchos padres que tienen la esperanza de que sus hijos menores de 12 años se puedan vacunar contra la COVID-19 quizá se cumpla este otoño, según el Dr. Anthony Fauci.Este otoño, la Ad...
MIÉRCOLES, 15 de septiembre de 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Las frecuencias cardiacas de las personas se sincronizan cuando escuchan una historia, encuentra un estudio reciente."Hay mucha literatura que demuestra que las personas sincronizan su fisiología...
MIÉRCOLES, 15 de septiembre de 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Los adultos mayores que se encuentran socialmente aislados tienen más probabilidades de sufrir una discapacidad grave o morir después de una estadía en la unidad de cuidados intensivos (UCI), rev...
MIÉRCOLES, 15 de septiembre de 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Para los pacientes con cánceres de las células B de la sangre que no produjeron anticuerpos contra la COVID-19 tras dos dosis de una vacuna, quizá una tercera dosis sea la solución, encuentra una...
MIÉRCOLES, 15 de septiembre de 2021 (HealthDay News) -- El riesgo de cáncer de colon es familiar, y no debería preocuparse solo si uno de sus padres o hermanos ha tenido la enfermedad.Si tiene un pariente de segundo o tercer grado que tuvo cáncer de c...
THURSDAY, Sept. 16, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The "white cane" that many blind people rely on for navigating the world hasn't been upgraded in a century, but researchers are reporting progress on a "robo-cane" they hope will modernize the assistive dev...
THURSDAY, Sept. 16, 2021 (American Heart Association News) -- Jeff Vallance jump-started every day with a 4-mile run. It woke him up and kept him feeling fit. As an expert in chronic disease management, he knew the importance of staying active.He also...
THURSDAY, Sept. 16, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Millions of people take statins to lower their cholesterol, and new research suggests these drugs may also ease ulcerative colitis.An inflammatory bowel disease with no real cure, ulcerative colitis causes ...
THURSDAY, Sept. 16, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Even when genetics and personality are working against you, having a strong network of supportive friends and family may help lower alcoholism risk, researchers say."Genes play an important role in alcohol ...
THURSDAY, Sept. 16, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- America's waistline keeps widening.On Wednesday, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that 16 states now have at least 35% of their residents who are obese, a number that's nearly d...
AHA News: La actividad física es útil después de un ataque cerebral, pero ¿hasta dónde es saludable?
JUEVES, 16 de septiembre de 2021 (American Heart Association News) -- Jeff Vallance solía comenzar cada día con una carrera de 4 millas (6 kilómetros). Era algo que lo despertaba y lo mantenía en forma. Como experto en el tema del control de enfermeda...
THURSDAY, Sept. 16, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The cost of providing hospital care for unvaccinated Americans has reached $5.7 billion in just three months, CBS News reported.Between June and August, about 287,000 people who were not vaccinated were hos...
Here are some of HealthDay's top stories for Thursday, Sept. 16:NIH spending nearly $470 million on long-haul COVID study. "Some people have had their lives completely upended by the major long-term effects of COVID-19," said Dr. Francis Collins, dir...
THURSDAY, Sept. 16, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The number of U.S. infants born with syphilis is climbing at an alarming pace, reaching a high not seen since the 1990s, according to new government figures.Newborn syphilis, a potentially fatal condition, ...
THURSDAY, Sept. 16, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. National Institutes of Health is spending nearly $470 million to study the long-term effects of COVID-19, the agency announced Wednesday. NIH has awarded a "parent" grant to New York University (NY...
THURSDAY, Sept. 16, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- As severe cases of COVID-19 rise and demand surges for monoclonal antibody treatments, the U.S. government is ordering more from two key suppliers.Monoclonal antibodies, which are lab-engineered immune syst...
THURSDAY, Sept. 16, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Multiple sclerosis (MS) patients undergoing a treatment that depletes a type of immune cell that fuels MS attacks still have a strong response to mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, a new study finds."The message from ...
THURSDAY, Sept. 16, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- If you're making your own face mask to protect against COVID-19, three layers of cotton towel fabric are best, researchers from India report. That recommendation comes after testing how best to block cough ...
THURSDAY, Sept. 16, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The COVID-19 pandemic has many women thinking twice about having more kids.In a survey of close to 1,200 New York City women with young children, one-third of respondents who had been thinking about having ...