TUESDAY, Aug. 8, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Among survivors of second primary cancers (SPCs), Black patients have the highest risk for death from both cancer and cardiovascular disease (CVD), according to a study published online Aug. 4 in JAMA Network ...
TUESDAY, Aug. 8, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Time from presentation to treatment is not associated with advanced colorectal disease or worse survival in younger patients, according to a study published online Aug. 3 in JAMA Network Open.Matthew Castelo, ...
TUESDAY, Aug. 8, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Measures of serum neurofilament light chain (sNfL) clinically differentiate children with neurological conditions versus healthy children, according to a study published online July 28 in The Lancet Neurology....
TUESDAY, Aug. 8, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- An investigation into a high number of cancers at a Montana nuclear missile base has led to the discovery of unsafe levels of a likely carcinogen.The hundreds of cancer cases appear to be connected to undergro...
TUESDAY, Aug. 8, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Vegetarians have a higher risk for hip fracture than regular meat eaters, according to a study published online July 27 in BMC Medicine.James Webster, from the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom, and co...
TUESDAY, Aug. 8, 2023 (American Heart Association News) -- Donnese Tyler's schedule was chock-full. With a husband, two sons, a demanding job in contracts management and a reluctance to say no to anyone, she rarely made time for herself.On an errand-f...
TUESDAY, Aug. 8, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Benzodiazepine-induced neurological dysfunction is commonly reported by current and former benzodiazepine users, according to a study published online June 29 in PLOS ONE.Alexis D. Ritvo, M.D., M.P.H., from th...
TUESDAY, Aug. 8, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Having atopic dermatitis is associated with a higher risk for schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorder, according to a study published online July 26 in the Archives of Dermatological Research.Ryan Fan, from...
TUESDAY, Aug. 8, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- In children with acute sinusitis, antibiotic treatment had minimal benefit for those without nasopharyngeal bacterial pathogens, according to a study published in the July 25 issue of the Journal of the Americ...
TUESDAY, Aug. 8, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with Meniere disease (MD), radiological temporal bone features known to be weakly or inconsistently associated with clinical diagnosis of MD are highly prevalent in one of two MD patient groups, a...
TUESDAY, Aug. 8, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Dennis Deer woke from surgery in utter disbelief that he was breathing normally.He’d been on supplemental oxygen for two years, and “I didn’t know what it was like not to have something on my face,” said Deer,...
TUESDAY, Aug. 8, 2023 (HealthDay News) – A variant nicknamed Eris now accounts for the largest proportion of new COVID infections across America.About 17.3% of U.S. COVID cases are believed to have been caused by the variant, formally known as EG.5, i...
TUESDAY, Aug. 8, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Most people know that even though vaccination doesn't eliminate their risk of getting COVID-19, it does lower their odds for severe illness -- including their risk for hospitalization and death.Now scientists ...
TUESDAY, Aug. 8, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- As the United States wrestles with soaring drug overdose deaths, new research finds that nurses, social and behavioral health care workers and health care support workers are at particularly high risk.Compare...
TUESDAY, Aug. 8, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Fatal heart disease in the United States dropped about 4% a year between 1990 and 2019, but Americans need to quit smoking, drinking and overeating or those gains could be wiped out, according to new research....
TUESDAY, Aug. 8, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Buying back-to-school shoes should be more about the right fit than the right look — but with luck you can combine the two. Shoes play a big part in how kids’ feet function and should be selected with care, sa...
TUESDAY, Aug. 8, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Doctors who overprescribe antibiotics are often blamed for medication-resistant illnesses, but new research points to another potential culprit: air pollution.Controlling air pollution could reduce antibiotic ...
TUESDAY, Aug. 8, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Bringing a professional sports team to a new city often includes a big taxpayer-funded stadium subsidy, but new research shows that has a health downside: a spike in flu deaths. “Most, if not all, of the spor...
TUESDAY, Aug. 8, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Underage drinking is an issue in many U.S. communities, but the number of law enforcement agencies using alcohol-related enforcement strategies has remained low or dropped in the past decade. In a new study, r...
A breast cancer diagnosis can be terrifying, but one type of early-stage disease is noninvasive and has high survival odds.There have been an estimated 297,790 new cases of breast cancer diagnosed in the United States so far this year, the U.S. Nation...
A diagnosis of breast cancer comes with many tough questions, but one of the biggest is what stage your cancer is. Millions of women struggle with such questions every year: Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women in the United States, with t...
When you’re trying to become pregnant, understanding when in your cycle you’re the most fertile is key to success. Dr. Rebecca Flyckt, medical director of University Hospitals Fertility Center in Beachwood, Ohio, shares what you need to know about "fe...
Endometriosis is a painful chronic condition affecting approximately 11% of American women aged 15 to 44, with symptoms that range from severe period pain, long-term pelvic pain, pain during sex and even infertility.The Office on Women's Health says i...
MONDAY, Aug. 7, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Miscuffing results in inaccurate blood pressure (BP) measurements, according to a study published online Aug. 7 in JAMA Internal Medicine.Junichi Ishigami, M.D., M.P.H., from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School ...
MONDAY, Aug. 7, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Three cases of fleaborne typhus-associated deaths were reported during 2022, according to research published in the Aug. 4 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity and Mortality W...
MONDAY, Aug. 7, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- For elementary school students, a school-based water promotion and access intervention can attenuate the increase in the prevalence of overweight, but not obesity, according to a study published online Aug. 7 i...
MONDAY, Aug. 7, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), generic and brand-name fluticasone-salmeterol are similarly effective and safe, according to a study published online Aug. 8 in the Annals of Inte...
MONDAY, Aug. 7, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the inner ear can help differentiate Meniere disease (MD) from vestibular migraine (VM), according to a study published online June 26 in The Laryngoscope...
VIERNES, 4 de agosto de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Con frecuencia, se recetan esteroides sin necesidad a mujeres embarazadas que se piensa que están en riesgo de un nacimiento prematuro, plantea una nueva revisión de las evidencias. Como resultado, mill...