MONDAY, May 29, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Banning flavored tobacco products leads to fewer people using them, according to a new California study that found lower usage in areas that had a full ban.
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MONDAY, May 29, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic disease that attacks the central nervous system and leaves patients suffering from a host of symptoms, and now new research finds life stressors can make those symptoms even worse.
MONDAY, May 29, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Limited "heading" of a soccer ball in youth sports may not cause irreversible harm, as long as players are properly trained, a new study finds.
MONDAY, May 29, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Your achy joints may suggest that you take it easy. Don’t listen to them, experts say.
SUNDAY, May 28, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- The last thing you want to invite to your Memorial Day cookout is foodborne illness.
SATURDAY, May 27, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- When going on vacation, there’s a lot to remember, but it’s a good idea if you add one more item to the to-do list.
FRIDAY, May 26, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Daily multivitamin supplementation improves memory in older adults compared with placebo, according to a study published online May 24 in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
FRIDAY, May 26, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Patients undergoing bariatric surgery for obesity use fewer lipid-lowering, cardiovascular, and antidiabetic medications over the long term versus patients with obesity not undergoing surgery, according to a study published online May 24 in JAMA Surgery.
FRIDAY, May 26, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- States with restrictive gun laws have lower rates of assault-related firearm deaths among youths, but youths from socially vulnerable communities are disproportionately impacted across the spectrum of state gun laws, according to a study published online May 24 in JAMA Network Open.
FRIDAY, May 26, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- A 5,000-mile floating mass of sargassum seaweed has begun washing up on Florida's beaches. It can be low risk in some instances, but it also has the potential for triggering serious respiratory health issues.
FRIDAY, May 26, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- It may sound like the stuff of science fiction, but Elon Musk's company Neuralink announced Thursday that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a human clinical trial of a device that may restore or enhance function when implanted in a human brain.
FRIDAY, May 26, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Be cautious when heading to Florida's beaches this summer, an expert warned, as a 5,000-mile floating mass of sargassum seaweed has begun washing up on the state's shores.
FRIDAY, May 26, 2023 (American Heart Association News) -- Stroll past the seasonal aisle at any grocery store this time of year and you'll find a shelf piled with plastic flip-flops, a box sprouting colorful pool noodles and a "sizzling sale" on grilling accessories.
FRIDAY, May 26, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- You've been diagnosed with depression. What's next?
FRIDAY, May 26, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Higher poststroke glucose levels are associated with faster subsequent global cognitive decline, according to research published online May 17 in JAMA Network Open.
FRIDAY, May 26, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Black individuals are significantly less likely than non-Hispanic White individuals to fill a prescription for a β3-adrenoceptor agonist for overactive bladder (OAB), according to a study published online May 24 in JAMA Network Open.
FRIDAY, May 26, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Mini-percutaneous nephrolithotomy (mPCNL) is more likely to result in stone-free than flexible ureteroscopy for adults with renal stones of 1 to 2 cm in size, according to a study published in the June issue of The Journal of Urology.
FRIDAY, May 26, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with severe thrombocytopenia, withholding of prophylactic platelet transfusion before ultrasound-guided placement of a central venous catheter (CVC) results in more CVC-related bleeding events than prophylactic platelet transfusion, according to guidelines published in the May 25 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
FRIDAY, May 26, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Young patients with a history of multiple concussions report greater cognitive, sleep, and neuropsychiatric symptoms than those with one prior head injury, according to a study published online May 9 in the Journal of Neurosurgery: Pediatrics.
FRIDAY, May 26, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- It may sound like the stuff of science fiction, but Elon Musk’s company Neuralink announced Thursday that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a human clinical trial of a device that may restore or enhance function when implanted in a human brain.
FRIDAY, May 26, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- For adults with hypertension, prediabetes or type 2 diabetes, and overweight or obesity, a very low-carbohydrate (VLC) diet results in significantly greater improvements in risk factors over four months than the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet, according to a study published in the May/June issue of the Annals of Family Medicine.
FRIDAY, May 26, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Allowing bedside nurses to independently order stool testing for Clostridioides difficile (C. difficile) significantly decreases the amount of time to receive test results versus requiring physician approval, according to a study published online May 10 in the American Journal of Infection Control.
FRIDAY, May 26, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Vaginal human papillomavirus (HPV) is detected in about 40 percent of pregnant women, but perinatal transmission occurs infrequently, according to a study published online May 22 in JAMA Pediatrics.
FRIDAY, May 26, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- A higher level of quadriceps isometric strength (QIS) is associated with a lower risk for developing heart failure after acute myocardial infarction (AMI), according to a study presented at the European Society of Cardiology Heart Failure 2023, held from May 20 to 23 in Prague.
FRIDAY, May 26, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Black Americans face a greater risk of early death than white people do, and now a new study points to the reasons why.