MARTES, 1 de agosto de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Subir por las escaleras en lugar del elevador. Limpiar las hojas. Cargar con las pesadas bolsas de la compra. Pasar la aspiradora. Jugar intensamente con sus hijos o mascotas. Unas sesiones cortas de act...
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 2, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Actress Suzanne Somers, who first battled breast cancer in her 50s, announced on Instagram this week that the disease recently returned. Somers, now 76, has been fighting cancer for decades. But she says sh...
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 2, 2023 (American Heart Association News) -- Since she was a child, Yanela Vickers has loved babies and the medical field. She dreamed of going into obstetrics and gynecology.Instead, Yanela got a close look at the profession as a pati...
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 2, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- A six-month aerobic exercise intervention significantly improves self-reported chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN) among patients treated for ovarian cancer, according to a study published onli...
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 2, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is associated with a higher risk for developing aortic stenosis, according to a study published online July 31 in JAMA Internal Medicine.Tate M. Johnson, M.D., from the VA Nebraska-...
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 2, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Food allergy in infancy, whether it resolves or not, is associated with lung function deficits and asthma at age 6 years, according to a study published online July 25 in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health...
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 2, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Enforcing body mass index (BMI) cutoffs for access to total shoulder arthroplasty (TSA) may limit the procedure for female or Black patients across all BMI cutoffs, according to a study recently published in...
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 2, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- While race is not a significant predictor of unplanned hospital visits after breast reconstruction surgery, racial minorities bear a higher cost burden than White breast reconstruction patients, according to...
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 2, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Experts have long recommended breastfeeding for its many benefits for infants, but a new study puts a hard number on breast milk’s lifesaving effects. Breastfeeding is associated with a 33% reduction in infa...
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 2, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), higher intra-abdominal visceral adipose tissue (IA-VAT) as a percentage of total body mass is associated with worse outcomes and may increase resistance to...
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 2, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- A newly discovered genetic variant might explain why some people of African ancestry have naturally lower viral loads of HIV, an international team of researchers reports.This variant, carried by an estimate...
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 2, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- The fixed-ratio spirometric criteria for chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD) underdiagnoses potential COPD in African American patients, according to a study recently published in the Journal of Ge...
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 2, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) is associated with lower two-year mortality following coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), according to a study published online June 29 in the Annals of Thoracic Surgery.Tyler...
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 2, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- There are significant age-, sex-, race-, and social deprivation-related disparities in the timing of preoperative hemodialysis for patients with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD), according to a research lette...
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 2, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Higher consumption of ultraprocessed food (UPF) is associated with lower survival and higher cardiovascular mortality in patients with type 2 diabetes, according to a study published online July 26 in the Am...
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 2, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- While demand for prescription stimulants is surging, a shortage of the drugs persists, so federal officials have stepped in and asked drug companies to ramp up production of the medications.Officials from bo...
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 2, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Millions of American smokers suffer from a potentially serious lung disease that's not technically chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a new study finds. They would benefit from a clear diagnosis, ...
MIÉRCOLES, 2 de agosto de 2023 (American Heart Association News) -- Desde que era niña, Yanela Vickers ha amado a los bebés y el campo médico. Soñaba con dedicarse a la obstetricia y ginecología.En lugar de ello, Yanela vio de cerca la profesión como ...
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 2, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- All eyes are on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration this week as the agency weighs approval of a new pill that may quickly treat and ease severe postpartum depression. Approval of the drug could help milli...
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 2, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Artificial intelligence (AI) programs can safely be used to help radiologists review mammogram images and detect breast cancers, early results from an ongoing clinical trial show.A single radiologist aided b...
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 2, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- The President’s Emergency Program for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), a program that's long successfully provided relief to people with AIDS around the world, will now be housed within the U.S. State Department. The m...
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 2, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Certain lots of the prescription birth control pill Tydemy may be less effective than expected, potentially resulting in an unintended pregnancy, because the pills do not contain enough of an active ingredie...
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 2, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- First Lady Jill Biden gains at least some of her inner strength by working on her physical strength.Featured in the September issue of Women’s Health magazine, Biden, 72, talks about waking at 5:45 a.m. most...
Following the recent decision of a World Health Organization (WHO) agency to classify aspartame as "possibly carcinogenic to humans," many may be left wondering whether it is safe to use the popular artificial sweetener.What exactly does this mean, an...
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 2, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Being exposed to lead while in the womb or during early childhood may increase a person’s chance of engaging in criminal behavior as an adult, a new review claims.To arrive at this conclusion, the review aut...
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 2, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- More U.S. women are living in areas with little or no maternity care, raising concern about their ability to have a healthy pregnancy and birth.New research from the March of Dimes shows a 4% drop in birthin...
THURSDAY, Aug. 3, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Malignant bowel blockages are common in patients who have advanced abdominal tumors, especially cancers of the ovaries or colon, and a new clinical trial suggests surgery should be offered to them sooner rath...
TUESDAY, Aug. 1, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- In recent years, alcohol-related deaths increased in male and female individuals, with a higher rate of increase among women, according to a study published online July 28 in JAMA Network Open.Ibraheem M. Kara...