MONDAY, July 17, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- A new study offers the first-ever county-level estimates of Alzheimer’s disease in the United States.It shows that the East and Southeast have the highest prevalence of Alzheimer’s dementia, which researchers ...
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 germ that hospitalizes as many as 3% of children under the age of 1 in the United States eac...
Las garrapatas podrían estar propagando una 'enfermedad del desgaste' entre los venados de Wisconsin
VIERNES, 14 de julio de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Las garrapatas podrían ser las responsables de la propagación de la enfermedad del desgaste crónico (EDC) en la población de venados de Wisconsin, según un nuevo estudio. Unos investigadores de la Unive...
JUEVES, 13 de julio de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Se podría considerar como una especie de señal manual. Una nueva investigación alemana muestra que el síndrome del túnel carpiano (STC), un trastorno nervioso común, podría ser un precursor de la insufic...
VIERNES, 14 de julio de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- El tratamiento puede controlar los síntomas del tipo más común de glaucoma, y salvar la visión de una persona. El problema es que una persona no puede sentir los cambios en la presión ocular que pueden ...
VIERNES, 14 de julio de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Las bacterias intestinales podrían afectar al riesgo de unos depósitos grasos en las arterias cardiacas, y de futuros ataques cardiacos, señalan unos investigadores. Un nuevo estudio encuentra un víncul...
VIERNES, 14 de julio de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- La discriminación racial podría provocar unas desigualdades de salud desde una edad temprana, según unos investigadores, que encontraron que pone a los niños en riesgo de obesidad. "La exposición a la d...
VIERNES, 14 de julio de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Levantar pesas de forma regular desarrolla la fuerza y el músculo, y no importa si esas pesas son pesadas o ligeras. Lo que ofrece resultados es el acto en sí, y ser constante, según un nuevo estudio. T...
VIERNES, 14 de julio de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- El jueves, una agencia de la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) anunció que el aspartamo es un posible carcinógeno, mientras que otra se mantuvo firme y dijo que el aspartamo es seguro a las dosis r...
VIERNES, 14 de julio de 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Tener un resultado positivo en una prueba de la infección con la COVID-19 durante una fase particular del tratamiento para la fertilidad podría reducir las probabilidades de un embarazo exitoso, señala ...
MONDAY, July 17, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- People with type 2 diabetes could soon have access to convenient once-a-week insulin shots that could replace the daily injections now required.A once-weekly insulin formulation called icodec performed just as...
MONDAY, July 17, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Donanemab slows clinical progression among participants with early symptomatic Alzheimer disease and amyloid and tau pathology, according to a study published online July 17 in the Journal of the American Medi...
MONDAY, July 17, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Use of oral contraceptives (OCs), especially the first two years of use, is associated with an increased risk for depression, with the association consistent with a causal relationship, according to a study pu...
MONDAY, July 17, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Real-world physician pay-for-performance (P4P) multicomponent interventions are associated with a significant reduction in antibiotic prescriptions for acute respiratory tract infections (ARTIs) at safety-net ...
MONDAY, July 17, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Superagers exhibit higher grey matter volume cross-sectionally and show slower total grey matter atrophy longitudinally than typical older adults, according to a study published online July 13 in The Lancet He...
MONDAY, July 17, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- From 2013 to 2021, there was improvement in almost all domains of readiness of U.S. emergency departments to care for children, according to a study published online July 7 in JAMA Network Open.Katherine E. Re...
MONDAY, July 17, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Older adults with Alzheimer disease and related dementia (ADRD) have lower home discharge rates and increased mortality after intensive care unit (ICU) admission, according to a study published in the July 1 i...
MONDAY, July 17, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- There is no evidence for clinically meaningful differences in IQ scores after pediatric concussion, according to a study published online July 17 in Pediatrics.Ashley L. Ware, Ph.D., from Georgia State Univers...
MONDAY, July 17, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- For children aged 5 to 12 years with low-to-moderate bilateral myopia, atropine 0.01 percent eye drops do not slow myopia progression over two years of treatment, according to a study published online July 13 ...
MONDAY, July 17, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Another experimental drug meant to slow the damage of Alzheimer’s appears poised to join a growing arsenal of new treatments for this memory-robbing disease.In research published online Monday in the Journal o...
MONDAY, July 17, 2023 (American Heart Association News) -- At 32, Allison Graff saw her life as a treasure. She loved her job in Florida. She owned her own home. She discovered the delights of dancing, which she did at clubs as often as possible. Work...
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 News) -- If your child has ever taken a knock to the head on the playing field, a new study has some reassuring news: There's no evidence that a concussion shaves points from a kid's IQ.Researchers found that compared ...
MONDAY, July 17, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Writing letters, taking classes and playing mentally stimulating games like chess in your older years could lower your risk of dementia over the next decade, a new study suggests.Researchers in Australia found...
MONDAY, July 17, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Two new studies using CRISPR gene editing offer potential new treatments for Alzheimer’s disease.“A pipeline of potential new treatments offers hope for the Alzheimer’s and dementia community,” said Maria Carr...
MONDAY, July 17, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- A new study from Australia tied some dangerous and unsettling issues to sleep disorders in young people.The research found links to daytime drowsiness, mental health issues and motor vehicle accidents and note...
MONDAY, July 17, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Using skin lightening products can be dangerous without a doctor’s supervision because they may contain harmful ingredients.Still, nearly a quarter of people in a recent survey said they used the products not ...
MONDAY, July 17, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- It’s commonly thought that having a companion animal — be it a dog, cat or bird — is good for the owner’s mental health.A new study suggests that’s not so, at least for people with severe mental illness and fo...