El acceso a la marihuana medicinal no reduce el uso de analgésicos opioides: estudio
MIÉRCOLES, 5 de julio de 2023 (HealthDay News) — La marihuana medicinal se publicita como analgésico, pero en los estados de EE. UU. donde es legal, las recetas de analgésicos opioides o no opioides no se han reducido, encontró un nuevo estudio. Segú…
Learn MoreAumentan las tasas de depresión entre los jóvenes de las minorías en los estados con leyes contra los LGBT
MIÉRCOLES, 5 de julio de 2023 (HealthDay News) — Los jóvenes que son tanto LGBTQ+ como negros o hispanos y que viven en estados de EE. UU. con políticas discriminatorias son más propensos a tener depresión, en comparación con sus contrapartes en esta…
Learn MoreMás de tres cuartas partes de los estadounidenses de a partir de 16 años han tenido COVID, según los CDC
MIÉRCOLES, 5 de julio de 2023 (HealthDay News) — Aunque poco más de la mitad de los adultos estadounidenses piensan que han tenido COVID-19, la realidad es que alrededor de un 77.5 por ciento se han infectado al menos una vez, muestran nuevos datos d…
Learn MoreNearly Half of Tap Water Americans Drink Is Tainted With PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’
THURSDAY, July 6, 2023 (HealthDay News) — “Forever chemicals” are widespread in the environment, and new research finds they can be detected in about 45% of U.S. tap water samples.The chemicals are per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances, or PFAS, …
Learn MoreStatement Outlines Inequities in Cardio-Oncology Care, Research
THURSDAY, July 6, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Inequities in cardio-oncology care and research are addressed in a scientific statement issued by the American Heart Association and published online June 28 in Circulation.Daniel Addison, M.D., from Ohio Sta…
Learn MoreHeat: How Much Can the Human Body Stand?
THURSDAY, July 6, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Record-breaking heat waves are pummeling the United States and the world, causing many to wonder how much of this a body can take and still survive.The limit is somewhere between 104 and 122 degrees Fahrenhei…
Learn MoreFDA Sends Warning to Companies Selling THC Products That Look Like Candy, Cookies
THURSDAY, July 6, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Several companies are selling copycat food items that have the potential to trick people, including children, into consuming dangerous quantities of cannabis.
On Wednesday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administrati…
Sleep a Key Defense for Black Americans at Genetic Risk for Alzheimer’s
THURSDAY, July 6, 2023 (HealthDay News) — A lot of experts advise getting a good night’s sleep. For Black Americans who have a gene variant linked to Alzheimer’s disease, that rest could be protective, a new study says. “This new finding suggests th…
Learn MoreHistoric ‘Redlining’ of Neighborhoods Linked to Black Americans’ Rate of Kidney Failure
THURSDAY, July 6, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Decades of “redlining” — discriminatory policies that led to disinvestment in minority communities within the United States — may be connected with current cases of kidney failure in Black adults. A new study…
Learn MoreMore Cancer Patients Got Palliative Care After Obamacare
THURSDAY, July 6, 2023 (HealthDay News) — New research finds that Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act — also known as Obamacare — brought an unexpected benefit: increases in how many patients got palliative care.“Our findings are encou…
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