TUESDAY, Oct. 22, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Smokers find it easier to quit if they’re automatically offered support, even if they didn’t ask for it, a new clinical trial finds. Quit rates were higher among health system patients placed in an “opt-out” program, in which tobacco cessation medications and counselingContinue Reading
MONDAY, Oct. 21, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A healthy diet can help keep prostate cancer in check, a new study finds. The better a man eats, the less likely his low-grade prostate cancer will progress to a more dangerous state, researchers reported Oct. 17 in the journal JAMA Oncology. ForContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Oct. 18, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Ruined credit scores and big risks for bankruptcy: All part of the long-term financial fallout from the words “You have cancer,” according to two new studies. “These are the first studies to provide numerical evidence of financial toxicity among cancer survivors,” said studyContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Oct. 18, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Intrauterine devices (IUDs) may raise the chances of a breast cancer diagnosis for women who use the hormonal birth control method, but that risk remains low, new research finds. In the study of 150,000 Danish women, published this week in the Journal of theContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Oct. 18, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Having close family and friends who care about their health makes women more likely to get regularly screened for cancer, a new study has found. Women are more likely to undergo regular cancer screening if they have a tighter web of social andContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Oct. 17, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Is vaping finally losing its coolness for American teens? The latest tally of federal data finds that 550,000 school kids, mostly high schoolers, quit using e-cigarettes in 2024. Vaping rates fell from 10% of high school students in 2023 to 7.8% this year,Continue Reading
THURSDAY, Oct. 17, 2024 (HealthDay News) — In some good news for women battling locally advanced cervical cancer, new research shows that adding six weeks of chemotherapy to standard treatment cuts the risk of death by 40 percent. “This is the biggest improvement in outcome in this disease in overContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 16, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Jenna Cottrell is a young sports reporter working for a TV station in the Rochester, N.Y., area. She’s also a survivor of advanced Hodgkin lymphoma, who first got diagnosed at the age of 25 back in 2017. After 12 rounds of the thenContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 16, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Obesity is a more powerful driver of breast cancer than previously thought, a new study suggests. About 40% of hormone-positive breast cancers in postmenopausal women might be linked to excess body fat, researchers reported Oct. 15 in the Journal of Epidemiology & CommunityContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Oct. 15, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Women typically are urged to start receiving regular mammograms at age 40, but some might need to start even sooner, experts say. Specific risk factors that increase risk of early breast cancer might prompt young women to consider getting screened earlier, said Dr.Continue Reading
TUESDAY, Oct. 15, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Half of people who develop blood poisoning, otherwise known as sepsis, are dead within a couple of years, a new study finds. A little more than 50% of patients admitted to an ER with sepsis died within two years, Danish researchers report. “WeContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Oct. 10, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A newly developed soft robotic finger with a sophisticated sense of touch could one day help your doctor perform routine office examinations, a new study suggests. The finger can take a person’s pulse and detect abnormal lumps, researchers reported Oct. 10 in theContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Oct. 10, 2024b (HealthDay News) — There’s a small but significant increased of certain cancers in people battling multiple sclerosis (MS), new research shows. Those malignancies include cancers of the bladder, brain and cervix, said a team from Rennes University in France. “People with MS undergo an increased numberContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Oct. 10, 2024 (HealthDay News) — It’s never too late for a person to quit smoking, even if they’re elderly, a new study finds. Dropping the smokes even as late as 75 can meaningfully increase a person’s life expectancy, researchers reported recently in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.Continue Reading