FRIDAY, Jan. 12, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Sickle cell disease is one of many chronic health conditions that dramatically increases the risk of hospitalization and death in people infected by COVID-19. Unfortunately, folks with sickle cell disease are much less likely to have received the best protection available to themContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Jan. 11, 2024 (HealthDay News) — U.S. doctors are prescribing antifungal creams to patients with skin complaints at rates so high they could be contributing to the rise of drug-resistant infections, new research shows. These are “severe antimicrobial-resistant superficial fungal infections, which have recently been detected in the UnitedContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Jan. 11, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Amid an ongoing shortage of the first-line treatment for syphilis in the United States, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will allow the importation of a different syphilis drug from a French drugmaker. In a letter from Laboratoires Delbert, the Paris-based company said it’sContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 10, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Heart disease deaths linked with alcohol or drug use have been steadily increasing in the United States, a new study has found. Deaths from heart disease in which substance use was cited as contributor rose an average of 4% per year between 1999Continue Reading
TUESDAY, Jan. 9, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Social media is abuzz with the possibility that newfangled weight loss drugs can also reduce cravings for alcohol, a new study says. Across a number of Reddit threads, users of weight-loss drugs like Ozempic reported that they felt less need to drink beer,Continue Reading
TUESDAY, Jan. 9, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A ‘secret shopper’ study finds that for many American families, accessing inpatient treatment for a teen battling addiction can be next to impossible. “If you are a family in crisis and you have a kid for whom outpatient treatment is not an option,Continue Reading
TUESDAY, Jan. 9, 2024 (HealthDay News) — An average of 22 U.S. teens die each week from drug overdoses, a death toll driven by the powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl, a new study reports. Researchers also have identified 19 “hotspot” counties where fatal ODs are occurring as much as double theContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Jan. 5, 2024 (HealthDay News) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday gave the nod to a Florida plan to import drugs from Canada at much lower prices than in the United States. The approval could prove to be a major turning point for the United States’Continue Reading
FRIDAY, Jan. 5, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Tejocote weight-loss supplements sold through online through Amazon or Etsy could contain a highly toxic substance, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning. FDA tests revealed that capsules labeled as tejocote instead contained yellow oleander, a poisonous plant native to Mexico andContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Jan. 5, 2024 (HealthDay News) — How much a person believes in the strength of a drug might influence how powerfully that drug influences brain activity, a new study has found. Smokers told to expect a low, medium or high dose of nicotine from an e-cigarette showed a brainContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Jan. 5, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Drugs already used by millions to lower cholesterol might someday have a new role: Relieving asthma and COPD. That’s the hope of a new line of research underway at the University of California, Davis. A study funded by the U.S. National Institutes ofContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Jan. 4, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Three twenty-somethings in Chicago took a street drug they thought was a harmless form of Xanax. All three were found collapsed and unresponsive eight hours later by one of their mothers, who had them rushed to the hospital. After multiple seizures, fever andContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Jan. 4, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Researchers report that a new type of antibiotic has proved its mettle against a deadly superbug. Acinetobacter baumannii, a bacteria that goes by the nickname CRAB when it becomes antibiotic-resistant, can trigger serious infections in the lungs, urinary tract and blood, according toContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Dec. 29, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Researchers appear to have discovered a new weapon in the war on a particularly difficult foe. They have identified a previously unrecognized class of antibodies that seem to be capable of neutralizing multiple strains of the flu virus. Their findings, recently reported inContinue Reading