Los estadounidenses jóvenes siguen queriendo el mismo número de hijos, pero no ahora mismo
MARTES, 17 de enero de 2023 (HealthDay News) — Cuando las tasas de natalidad se reducen en Estados Unidos, los expertos intentan averiguar qué está sucediendo.La tasa de fertilidad está en su punto más bajo desde la década de los 1970, en 1.71 por mu…
Learn MoreAppendicitis Often Spotted Later in Black Patients
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 18, 2023 (HealthDay News) — While appendicitis is a common emergency, Black people experiencing its symptoms more often have a delayed diagnosis.But that doesn’t happen in lower-quality hospitals that serve more Black patients, accord…
Learn MoreFeds to Investigate Overuse of Antipsychotic Drugs by Nursing Homes
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 18, 2023 (HealthDay News) — U.S. health officials say they plan to investigate whether some nursing homes are falsely labeling patients as schizophrenic so they can administer sedating antipsychotic drugs to them.The Centers for Medic…
Learn MoreKids’ COVID More Dangerous When Co-Infected With RSV, Colds
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 18, 2023 (HealthDay News) — As colds, flu and COVID continue to circulate this winter, a new U.S. government study finds that young children infected with COVID plus a second virus tend to become sicker.While severe COVID is rare amon…
Learn MoreRooming-In Program Aids Infants With Critical Congenital Heart Disease
TUESDAY, Jan. 17, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Nurses perceive that a novel rooming-in program for caregivers of infants with critical congenital heart disease (CCHD) may improve outcomes, according to a study published in the January issue of the America…
Learn MoreUn deterioro del sentido del olfato en los adultos mayores podría ser señal de fragilidad
VIERNES, 13 de enero de 2023 (HealthDay News) — Los médicos ya evalúan el oído y la vista de los adultos mayores. El sentido del olfato se podría algún día añadir a estas pruebas de detección, según unos investigadores, que encontraron vínculos entre…
Learn MoreYoung Americans Still Want Same Number of Kids, Just Not Right Now
TUESDAY, Jan. 17, 2023 (HealthDay News) — When birth rates fall in the United States, experts try to figure out what’s happening.The fertility rate is at its lowest since the 1970s — 1.71 per woman, according to a new study.But it’s not that young p…
Learn MoreHundreds of Hospitals Could Close Across Rural America
MONDAY, Jan. 16, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Hundreds of rural hospitals across the United States are teetering on the edge of closure, with their financial status increasingly in peril, a new report reveals.More than 200 rural hospitals are at immediate…
Learn MoreInpatient Mortality Up With Exposure to High Capacity Utilization
FRIDAY, Jan. 13, 2023 (HealthDay News) — For inpatients, exposure to high bed-occupancy (capacity utilization) increases the risk of mortality, according to a study published online Dec. 19 in BMC Health Services Research.Narayan Sharma, Ph.D., from …
Learn MoreRacial, Ethnic Disparity Seen Between Nursing Students, Neonates in NICU
FRIDAY, Jan. 13, 2023 (HealthDay News) — There is a racial and ethnic disparity between neonatal nurse practitioner (NNP) students and neonates in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), according to a study published online Jan. 6 in Advances in Ne…
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