TUESDAY, July 18, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) concludes that the current evidence is insufficient for assessing the balance of benefits and harms of screening for lipid disorders in children and adolescent...
TUESDAY, July 18, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- There are significant racial disparities in the diagnosis, treatment, and outcomes of peripheral artery disease (PAD), according to a study recently published in Advances in Therapy.Keith C. Ferdinand, M.D., ...
TUESDAY, July 18, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Concerning computed tomography (CT) findings among patients with low-risk pulmonary embolism (PE) are associated with increased hospitalization and resource utilization without short-term adverse clinical out...
TUESDAY, July 18, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Changes in alcohol consumption screens completed in routine care are associated with parallel changes in depression screening results, according to a study published online June 16 in Alcohol: Clinical & Expe...
TUESDAY, July 18, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Greater adherence to the 2018 World Cancer Research Fund/American Institute for Cancer Research Cancer Prevention Recommendations is associated with a lower risk for breast, colorectal, and lung cancers, acco...
TUESDAY, July 18, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- There is a high prevalence of suicidal thoughts and attempts among patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) initiating buprenorphine, according to a study published online June 1 in Addiction Science & Clinica...
TUESDAY, July 18, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- An annual one-hour Abnormal Involuntary Movement Score (AIMS) training session improves documentation to recognize and treat tardive dyskinesia in the psychiatry outpatient clinic, according to a study recent...
TUESDAY, July 18, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Home blood pressure monitoring can reduce the burden of cardiovascular disease and reduce health care costs, according to a study recently published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.Yan Li, Ph.D...
TUESDAY, July 18, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- In most cases, community-based primary care clinicians who receive specialized training can accurately diagnose autism spectrum disorder (ASD), according to a study published online July 18 in Pediatrics.Rebe...
TUESDAY, July 18, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- There is discordance between the prevalence of self-reported comorbidities and measured cardiometabolic risk factors among Native American adults, according to a study published online July 6 in PLOS Global H...
TUESDAY, July 18, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Latinos remain underrepresented in U.S. health professions that require advanced degrees, according to a study published in the July issue of Health Affairs.Indira Ghandi Islas, M.P.H., from the Congressional...
TUESDAY, July 18, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Shootings are the leading cause of death among U.S. children, surpassing even car crashes. But a new study suggests there may be a sensible way to reduce those firearm tragedies.Researchers found that kids wh...
TUESDAY, July 18, 2023 (American Heart Association News) -- Crystal Cuadra-Cutler lives for soccer. And soccer has added a lot to her life.The Gilroy, Calif., resident is a chapter president for the American Outlaws, a group known as "U.S. Soccer's cr...
MARTES, 18 de julio de 2023 (American Heart Association News) -- Crystal Cuadra-Cutler vive para el fútbol. Y el fútbol ha sido algo maravilloso para ella.Esta residente de Gilroy, California, es la presidenta de la división local de American Outlaws,...
TUESDAY, July 18, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Dr. Dan Iosifescu’s patient had a history of depression and had done well for a number of years. But the illness returned with a vengeance. “They truly tried to get better with a series of different medicatio...
TUESDAY, July 18, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Older adults who begin using opioid painkillers after a dementia diagnosis have a significantly greater risk of death — about 11-fold within the first two weeks, according to new research.The risk of death co...
In 2023 alone, 288,300 new cases of prostate cancer will be diagnosed in the United States, according to the American Cancer Society. And while that number might not seem all that high considering the U.S. population, 34,700 deaths will be related to ...
While prostate cancer affects about 1 in 8 men, when it’s caught early, there's a 99% survival rate, according to Cancer.org. That’s why early-stage detection is so important.The higher the stage number, the more advanced the disease. Learn from the e...
TUESDAY, July 18, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- People living with the pain, bloody diarrhea and sometimes urgent need to use the toilet that comes with ulcerative colitis may soon have a new treatment option that’s already been given the go-ahead in Europ...
TUESDAY, July 18, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- If you're hard of hearing and at higher risk for dementia, hearing aids could be a win-win.New research, published July 18 in The Lancet, finds hearing aids might reduce thinking declines in older adults --b...
TUESDAY, July 18, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Patients could find lifesaving benefits in using a home blood pressure cuff.New research finds that home blood pressure monitoring saves lives and cuts costs. It also reduces health care disparities in racial...
TUESDAY, July 18, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- In areas where Black Americans have been historically affected by discriminatory housing practices, there is higher heart failure risk, according to new research.Researchers studying more than 2.3 million U.S...
TUESDAY, July 18, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- While nursing home residents are at high risk for bad outcomes if they get COVID-19, use of antiviral treatments, such as monoclonal antibodies, was low through most of 2021 and 2022.The authors of a new stud...
MONDAY, July 17, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- The Eastern and Southeastern United States have the highest prevalence of Alzheimer disease, according to a study presented at the annual Alzheimer's Association International Conference, held from July 16 to ...
MONDAY, July 17, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Patient aggression toward general practice reception staff is a serious workplace safety concern, according to a review published online July 6 in Family Medicine and Community Health.Fiona Willer, Ph.D., from...
MONDAY, July 17, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Epistemic injustice is the most common manifestation of racism experienced by Black patients with serious illness and is associated with worsened mistrust and negative patient-clinician communication outcomes,...
MONDAY, July 17, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Surgery trainees who obtain National Institutes of Health (NIH) F32 grants during training are less likely to receive any form of NIH funding in the future compared with internal medicine colleagues receiving ...
MONDAY, July 17, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Nearly one in five U.S. adults say their workplace is toxic, according to the results of an American Psychological Association survey.The 2023 Work in America Survey, conducted online (April 17 to April 27, 20...
MONDAY, July 17, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- The national 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline has hit its one-year anniversary, and it appears that the public is increasingly turning to the number in times of darkness.The most recent statistics show a substant...
MONDAY, July 17, 2023 (HealthDay Now) -- Parents now have a new long-acting drug to protect their children against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), a common infection that hospitalizes as many as 3 percent of children younger than 1 year in the Unit...