THURSDAY, July 20, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers around the world are working to tease out the mechanisms behind Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia. Now, a new study points to so-called systemic inflammation.British researchers fou...
THURSDAY, July 20, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- The need to increase racial diversity among U.S. health care providers is important for many reasons. Among them, Black patients are more likely to believe Black physicians or patients than sources who are w...
WEDNESDAY, July 19, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Seasonal patterns are seen in suicidality among children and adolescents, with peaks in April and October and a nadir in July, according to a study published online July 19 in JAMA Network Open.Youngran Kim...
WEDNESDAY, July 19, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- During the past 10 years, there has been a shift away from physicians working in private practice, according to survey results released by the American Medical Association (AMA).Carol K. Kane, Ph.D., analyz...
WEDNESDAY, July 19, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- During the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, pediatric mental health emergency department visits increased, especially among adolescent girls, according to a study published online July 12 in JAMA P...
WEDNESDAY, July 19, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Cognitive functioning appears to decline at an accelerated rate immediately after retirement, and the rate is more pronounced in White men, according to a study published online July 19 in the Journal of th...
WEDNESDAY, July 19, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- The United States now has had eight reported cases of malaria, seven of them in Florida, state health officials reported Tuesday.Considered a public health emergency, these cases are the first in two decade...
Each year, gestational diabetes affects between 2% and 10% of pregnancies in the United States, according to federal government figures. Understanding its causes, symptoms and treatment is key to a healthy experience for the pregnant woman and her fet...
Although about 1 in 3 American adults has prediabetes, most don't know it."As with every chronic, prevalent disease, it's incredibly important to understand who's at particularly high risk of progressing from prediabetes to diabetes," Dr. Giulio Romeo...
About 1.9 million people in the United States have type 1 diabetes, including an estimated 244,000 kids and teens, according to the American Diabetes Association. And though type 1 diabetes is less common than the type 2 variety, 1.4 million Americans...
More than 11% of the U.S. population has diabetes, according to the American Diabetes Association, but as common as this disease is, many people don't realize that it is also the nation's seventh-leading cause of death. That’s why understanding its sy...
MARTES, 18 de julio de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Aunque los residentes de los hogares de ancianos tienen un riesgo alto de malos resultados si contraen la COVID-19, el uso de tratamientos antivirales, como los anticuerpos monoclonales, fue bajo a lo la...
MARTES, 18 de julio de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Los pacientes podrían encontrar unos beneficios que salvan vidas cuando usan esfingomanómetros para medir su presión arterial en casa. Ahora, una nueva investigación encuentra que la monitorización de la...
MARTES, 18 de julio de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Si tiene dificultades auditivas y un riesgo más alto de demencia, unos audífonos podrían ser muy beneficiosos. Una nueva investigación, que se publicó en la edición del 18 de julio de la revista The Lanc...
MARTES, 18 de julio de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Un paciente del Dr. Dan Iosifescu tenía un historial de depresión, y durante varios años le había ido bien. Pero la enfermedad volvió con mucha fuerza. "De verdad intentó mejorar con una serie de medicam...
LUNES, 17 de julio de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Ahora, los padres cuentan con un nuevo medicamento de larga acción para proteger a sus hijos del virus sincitial respiratorio (VSR), un germen común que cada año envía a hasta un 3 por ciento de los niños...
MARTES, 18 de julio de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Los tiroteos son la principal causa de muerte entre los niños de EE. UU., y superan incluso a los accidentes de coche. Pero un nuevo estudio sugiere que podría haber una forma sensata de reducir estas tr...
MARTES, 18 de julio de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- No importa si hace ejercicio cada día o solo durante el fin de semana. Si hace los 150 minutos recomendados de actividad física de moderada a vigorosa por semana, conseguirá beneficios para el corazón, e...
MARTES, 18 de julio de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- El flúor podría haber encontrado un contrincante en la prevención de las caries. Una nueva investigación muestra que la pasta dental que contiene hidroxiapatita, uno de los principales componentes minera...
WEDNESDAY, July 19, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Chronic constipation may not only be an indicator of gut health, but a potential warning sign of thinking declines, a preliminary study suggests.Researchers found that among more than 110,000 middle-aged an...
WEDNESDAY, July 19, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- In the world of COVID-19 infections, the majority of patients develop symptoms, while about one-fifth mysteriously don’t develop a cough, sore throat or other tell-tale signs of illness.Now, new research fi...
WEDNESDAY, July 19, 2023 (American Heart Association News) -- After a night of partying, 29-year-old Bethany Moeddel felt nauseous and had a headache. A hangover, she figured.She couldn't sleep it off, though, because it was a big day. Her boyfriend's...
WEDNESDAY, July 19, 2023 (American Heart Association News) -- Hmong American adults who have a stroke tend to be much younger than their white counterparts and may be more likely to have a less common type that causes bleeding in the brain, a new stud...
WEDNESDAY, July 19, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- The Mediterranean-DASH Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay (MIND) with mild caloric restriction does not change cognition or brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) outcomes compared with a control diet...
WEDNESDAY, July 19, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- The age-adjusted rate of overdose deaths involving cocaine and opioids increased more quickly from 2011 to 2021 than the rate of overdose deaths involving cocaine alone, according to a July data brief publ...
WEDNESDAY, July 19, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Among skin of color (SOC) individuals, use of skin lightening (SL), involving the use of chemicals to lighten the skin, is prevalent, and those using SL agents rarely consult a medical provider before using...
WEDNESDAY, July 19, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with preclinical Alzheimer disease, solanezumab does not slow cognitive decline, according to a study published online July 17 in the New England Journal of Medicine to coincide with the annual...
WEDNESDAY, July 19, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Multiple myeloma (MM) symptoms are generally nonspecific, according to a study published online June 25 in Cancers.Stella Bowcock, M.D., from the King's College Hospital NHS Trust in the United Kingdom, and...