MONDAY, Sept. 13, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- COVID-19 is surging in U.S. states with low vaccination rates, and these places may also be seeing a higher-than-usual number of stillbirths linked to the virus. While the number of stillbirths is still very ...
VIERNES, 10 de septiembre de 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Decenas de millones de estadounidenses ya estaban vacunados contra la COVID-19 a finales de agosto, y era previsible que ocurrieran los llamados casos "postvacunación". Pero los nuevos datos contie...
VIERNES, 10 de septiembre de 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Cuando recibió la primera dosis de la vacuna contra la COVID-19, ¿sintió un gran alivio? Si es así, no es el único.Los adultos de EE. UU. que recibieron la vacuna entre diciembre de 2020 y marzo de...
VIERNES, 10 de septiembre de 2021 (HealthDay News) -- La Administración de Alimentos y Medicamentos (FDA) de EE. UU. anunció el jueves que ha rechazado la solicitud de casi un millón de cigarrillos electrónicos y productos relacionados.Pero también re...
VIERNES, 10 de septiembre de 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Aunque el costo de administrar las vacunas contra la COVID-19 es nominal (y gratuito para los consumidores de Estados Unidos), el costo de pagar por las hospitalizaciones de las personas que han co...
VIERNES, 10 de septiembre de 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Los padres de un niño con autismo podrían preguntarse si un gato de compañía encajaría bien en su familia. Ahora, una nueva investigación sugiere que tanto los niños con autismo como los gatos se b...
VIERNES, 10 de septiembre de 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Los padres podrían pensar que los tatuajes temporales de los niños son inocuos. Pero los niños que se decoran con esos tatuajes transferibles podrían estar alterando la barrera protectora de su pie...
VIERNES, 10 de septiembre de 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Los estadounidenses negros y los de origen mexicano en general desarrollan diabetes tipo 2 hasta siete años antes que sus contrapartes blancas, encuentra un estudio reciente.En total, más de un 25 ...
VIERNES, 10 de septiembre de 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Las gafas nuevas ayudan a los niños de Baltimore a tener más éxito en la escuela.Un estudio clínico de tres años encontró que los estudiantes que recibieron gafas nuevas a través de un programa esc...
MONDAY, Sept. 13, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Twenty years on, responders to the World Trade Center attacks in New York City are showing increased risks of certain cancers, two new studies confirm.Researchers found higher-than-average rates of prostate c...
MONDAY, Sept. 13, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- COVID-19 vaccine booster shots might not be needed for most people, according to a large international review.The review -- conducted by a team that included scientists from the World Health Organization and...
MONDAY, Sept. 13, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- With the expansion of Medicaid under Obamacare, fewer Americans are uninsured and more are getting their blood pressure and blood sugar under control, a new study finds.The gains are especially strong among B...
MONDAY, Sept. 13, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- When Nancy Cappello was diagnosed with advanced breast cancer in 2003, she was stunned.How could this have happened? She went for her annual screening mammogram every year and was always told that all was fin...
MONDAY, Sept. 13, 2021 (American Heart Association News) -- Most people Pamela Anderson Bowen meets wonder about her accent. Sometimes they try to guess the origin. Maybe Russia? What about Sweden?"I'm from here," the North Carolina resident will answ...
MONDAY, Sept. 13, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- There's more sobering news for anyone still unvaccinated against the new coronavirus: Your odds of dying from COVID-19 are 11-fold higher than someone who's fully immunized, new research shows.The data comes ...
Here are some of HealthDay's top stories for Monday, Sept. 13:Unvaccinated have 11 times the odds of dying from COVID-19. A series of three studies published Friday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention find that vaccination greatly ...
MONDAY, Sept. 13, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Older adults who regularly eat foods like fish, nuts and olive oil may have less iron accumulation in their brains, as well as sharper memories, a small study suggests.The brain requires a certain level of ir...
MONDAY, Sept. 13, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The decades-long U.S. opioid epidemic could be hitting Black people harder than white folks as the crisis enters a new phase.Opioid overdose death rates among Black Americans jumped nearly 40% from 2018 to 20...
MONDAY, Sept. 13, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Anxiety prevention may be just a snowy trail away.New research suggests cross-country skiers -- and perhaps others who also exercise vigorously -- are less prone to develop anxiety disorders than less active ...
MONDAY, Sept. 13, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The law on whether or not students in Florida schools will be required to wear masks has changed again.On Friday the First District Court of Appeal in Tallahassee reinstated that state's ban on school mask ma...
MONDAY, Sept. 13, 2021 (HealthDay News) – If you often feel stressed out, your blood pressure may rise over time alongside higher odds for other heart concerns, a new study indicates.Researchers found adults with normal blood pressure but high levels ...
MONDAY, Sept. 13, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- College athletes who suffer a concussion may take as long as a month to recover, not the two weeks considered normal, new research finds."Normal return-to-play time was previously set at 14 days — meaning 50%...
MONDAY, Sept. 13, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Fewer COVID-19 vaccine doses than expected will be available through the global COVAX program, affecting many less-affluent nations waiting on these doses.The United Nations forecast last week that it would h...
Broken blood vessels in the eye are a common condition that transcends age, sex and race. Whether you're young or old, male or female, it can lead to blood appearing in the eye.What to do when it happens to you?This article will help you understand wh...
Children and adults alike can often end up in the emergency room following a blow to the abdomen, as they worry about any possible damage to internal organs.While motor vehicle accidents top the list of causes for abdominal injury in the United States...
Any bone in the body can break under enough stress. You should be alert for the possibility of broken bones anytime someone suffers a serious blow, perhaps in a fall, a car accident, or a high-speed wipeout on a bicycle. For people whose bones are wea...
As anyone who has ever worn ill-fitting shoes knows, blisters are small but painful irritations that occur when the skin is repeatedly rubbed in the same place. Blisters can also result from using a tool that rubs against your hands and fingers, or fr...
The first step in treating a burn properly is to assess the severity and extent of the injury. Burns are divided into four categories: first, second, third, and fourth degree. If you have to treat a burn, you need to know how to determine whether it i...