FRIDAY, Sept. 3, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- A new, huge study provides real-world proof that mask-wearing limits the spread of the coronavirus."I think this should basically end any scientific debate about whether masks can be effective in combating COV...
FRIDAY, Sept. 3, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Radiologists still outperform artificial intelligence (AI) when it comes to breast cancer screening, a new paper shows.Many countries have mammography screening programs to detect and treat breast cancer early...
FRIDAY, Sept. 3, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Just because you didn't have a significant reaction after your COVID-19 shot doesn't mean it's not working, researchers say."It wasn't known if a lack of symptoms following vaccination or prior SARS-CoV-2 infe...
FRIDAY, Sept. 3, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Hotter weather driven by climate change is bad news for people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a new study warns. Researchers say warming trends could worsen COPD symptoms, such as shortnes...
FRIDAY, Sept. 3, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- If other people's fidgeting drives you nuts, you may be one of many people with a condition called misokinesia, which means "hatred of movements," Canadian researchers report.They conducted experiments with mo...
FRIDAY, Sept. 3, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Transgender people have double the odds of dying early compared to folks whose identity matches the sex they were assigned at birth (cisgender), a long-term study finds.And the added risk did not decrease over...
THURSDAY, Sept. 2, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will hold a key advisory panel meeting on COVID-19 booster shots on Sept. 17, a mere three days before the Biden administration plans to begin offering third shots for A...
THURSDAY, Sept. 2, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The prescribing, dispensing, and use of ivermectin to prevent or treat COVID-19 outside of clinical trials must end immediately, the American Medical Association, American Pharmacists Association, and Americ...
THURSDAY, Sept. 2, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- At least 15 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been thrown away in the United States since March 1, government data show.That is a far greater amount than previously known, but it is still just a small ...
THURSDAY, Sept. 2, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Purdue Pharma was dissolved on Wednesday and the Sackler family will pay $4.5 billion under a bankruptcy settlement that will end thousands of lawsuits brought against the company over the U.S. opioid crisis...
THURSDAY, Sept. 2, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- People hospitalized for COVID-19, and even some with milder cases, may suffer lasting damage to their kidneys, new research finds.The study of more than 1.7 million patients in the U.S. Veterans Affairs syst...
THURSDAY, Sept. 2, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- As the new school year begins, teachers can take comfort in a new report that finds they have no greater risk of catching or being hospitalized for severe COVID-19 than anyone else.Researchers in Scotland sa...
MIÉRCOLES, 1 de septiembre de 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Una pastilla cuádruple que contiene unas "dosis ultrabajas" de distintos fármacos puede proveer un mejor control de la presión arterial que el tratamiento farmacológico estándar, muestra un nuevo ...
MIÉRCOLES, 1 de septiembre de 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Una mujer que usa el apodo de AntiVaxMomma en los medios sociales se enfrenta a varias acusaciones por vender tarjetas falsas de vacunación contra la COVID-19, dijeron el martes los fiscales de Nu...
MIÉRCOLES, 1 de septiembre de 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Las vacunas contra la COVID-19 provocan la producción de anticuerpos en la mayoría de las personas que tienen sistemas inmunitarios debilitados, pero un nuevo estudio revela que sus respuestas son...
MIÉRCOLES, 1 de septiembre de 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Los estadounidenses no vacunados deberían permanecer en casa durante el fin de semana feriado, a medida que aumentan los casos de COVID-19 a causa de la altamente contagiosa variante Delta, dijo e...
MIÉRCOLES, 1 de septiembre de 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Otro ensayo de una vacuna experimental contra el VIH se detuvo después de que los investigadores concluyeran que la vacuna solo ofrecía una protección limitada.El ensayo en cinco países de África ...
MIÉRCOLES, 1 de septiembre de 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Es probable que no consiga engañar a Fido.Una investigación reciente indica que los perros saben si usted tiene la intención de retener una golosina o lo hace por accidente.Esto sugiere que los pe...
MIÉRCOLES, 1 de septiembre de 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Los sentimientos de desesperación y desesperanza pueden aumentar las probabilidades de muerte en las personas que luchan con la enfermedad cardiaca, y una nueva investigación sugiere que el lugar ...
MIÉRCOLES, 1 de septiembre de 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Matthew Ryba, un veterano del Cuerpo de Marines que estuvo tanto en Irak como en Afganistán, comprende lo que la vida en una zona de combate puede hacerle a las mentes de los soldados, dejando a m...
THURSDAY, Sept. 2, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The prescribing, dispensing and use of ivermectin to prevent or treat COVID-19 outside of clinical trials must end immediately, the American Medical Association, American Pharmacists Association and American...
THURSDAY, Sept. 2, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Another trial of an experimental HIV vaccine has been halted after researchers concluded the vaccine provided only limited protection.The trial in five sub-Saharan African countries was launched in 2017 to a...
THURSDAY, Sept. 2, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred a resurgence in other infections that strike hospitalized patients, a U.S. government study finds.The study, by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, highligh...
THURSDAY, Sept. 2, 2021 (American Heart Association News) -- At 13, Alison Conklin passed out while playing in a basketball tournament. When she collapsed again during a competitive game of floor hockey, her mother took her to see a cardiologist.An ec...
THURSDAY, Sept. 2, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will hold a key advisory panel meeting on coronavirus booster shots on Sept. 17, a mere three days before the Biden administration plans to begin offering third shots fo...
Here are some of HealthDay's top stories for Wednesday, Sept. 2:Risk of long COVID drops by half in 'breakthrough' cases in fully vaccinated. A British study of almost 1 million people who were fully vaccinated against COVID-19 found that in those wh...
THURSDAY, Sept. 2, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Purdue Pharma was dissolved on Wednesday and the Sackler family will pay $4.5 billion under a bankruptcy settlement that will end thousands of lawsuits brought against the company over the United States' opi...