TUESDAY, Dec. 31, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A smartphone app appears to help people battle opioid use disorder (OUD). People with OUD had 35% fewer days of opioid use when they were handed the app alongside medications for opioid use disorder like methadone, buprenorphine and naltrexone, researchers note in aContinue Reading
-690x550.jpeg)
THURSDAY, Jan. 2, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Cases of a bacterial infection called “rabbit fever” have been increasing during the past decade. Cases of tularemia increased by 56% during the 2010s compared to the previous decade, researchers report in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Half of all theContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Dec. 27, 2024 (HealthDay News) — More Americans believe in the effectiveness of vaccines developed to protect newborns and seniors against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). More than half of U.S. adults (52%) think the RSV vaccine given to pregnant women will protect newborns from the infection, up from 42%Continue Reading
TUESDAY, Dec. 24, 2024 (HealthDay News) — When supplies of certain generic, platinum-based cancer chemotherapies dwindled in 2023, oncologists feared it might lead to under-treatment and many more cancer deaths. Fortunately, that did not turn out to be the case, a new study published recently in the Journal of theContinue Reading
MONDAY, Dec. 23, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Predictably, flu season is in full swing, with cases surging across the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed Friday in a report. Thirteen states, including Tennessee and Louisiana, report high or very high levels of flu-like illness, doubleContinue Reading
MONDAY, Dec. 23, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Hundreds of beloved pet dogs and cats were reported as being unintentionally poisoned by cocaine and methamphetamine left out in their owners’ homes, new data from one U.S. pet poison control hotline shows. When a dog or cat consumes cocaine or meth, itContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Dec. 20, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Seniors with an infection can take antibiotics without fear of harming their brain health. Antibiotics don’t appear to increase the risk of cognitive decline or dementia in older adults, researchers report in the journal Neurology. “Given that older adults are more frequently prescribedContinue Reading
-690x400.jpg)
THURSDAY, Dec. 19, 2024 (HealthDay News) — The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed a civil complaint against CVS Pharmacy Inc., accusing the nation’s largest pharmacy chain of unlawfully filling prescriptions for highly addictive opioids and violating federal health care laws. According to a news release published Dec. 18,Continue Reading
THURSDAY, Dec. 19, 2024 (HealthDay News) — After years of decline, U.S. life expectancy is finally on the rise again for the first time since 2019, new government research shows. This turnaround was driven in part by a decline in drug overdose deaths, which had risen dramatically as a resultContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Dec. 13, 2024 (HealthDay News) — When an outbreak of mpox first hit the United States in 2022, a vaccine called Jynneos was available to help protect the most vulnerable population, gay and bisexual men. Now, there’s new data showing which individuals in the LGBTQ+ community were most likelyContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Dec. 13, 2024 (HealthDay News) — In news that suggest the U.S. opioid epidemic may be easing, drug overdose deaths fell 17% between July 2023 and July 2024. Per new data released Wednesday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 94,000 people died from drug overdosesContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Dec. 12, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Despite a record number of American children dying from the flu last year, the percentage of kids getting their flu shots keeps falling. In new data posted this week by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, only 37% of kids hadContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Dec. 12, 2024 (HealthDay News) — In what appears to be a last-ditch effort to limit the harms of smoking before its term ends, the Biden administration has proposed a rule that would significantly lower the amount of nicotine in tobacco products. The agency’s efforts to counter the dangersContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 11, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Many young adults can kick their vaping habit with a little coaching and support. New research published Dec. 10 in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine shows that nearly half of a group of 18- to 24-year-olds were no longer vaping three monthsContinue Reading