MONDAY, Oct. 21, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Health insurers would be required to cover the cost of over-the-counter birth control and emergency contraception under new rules proposed by the White House on Monday. “Since Roe v. Wade was overturned more than two years ago, Republican elected officials have made clearContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Oct. 15, 2024 (HealthDay News) — It’s typically thought that medical school requires four years of study after graduating college. But doctors might be able to shave a year off their medical education and still do a great job treating patients, a new study finds. Graduates who took threeContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Oct. 15, 2024 (HealthDay News) — It’s natural for a parent to bundle an injured child into a car and rush their kid to the emergency room. But that decision could actually delay their child’s emergency care, a new study shows. Severely injured children brought to an ER byContinue Reading
MONDAY, Oct. 14, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A simple tweak in available vial sizes of the breakthrough Alzheimer’s drug Leqembi could save Medicare hundreds of millions of dollars each year, a new analysis claims. About 6% of Leqembi (lecanemab) is discarded because patients are frequently prescribed doses lower than theContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Oct. 10, 2024 (HealthDay News) — The Fisher-Price company is recalling more than 2 million of its Snuga infant swings, after the suffocation and deaths of five infants who went to sleep while in the swings. “The swing should never be used for sleep and bedding materials should neverContinue 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
FRIDAY, Oct. 4, 2024 (HealthDay News) — As an outbreak of bird flu among dairy cows continues to spread in the United States, two more cases have been reported in dairy workers, this time in California. These are the first human cases of bird flu reported in that state andContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 2, 2024 (HealthDay News) — As the southeastern United States begins to recover from Helene’s devastation, a new study suggests the health impact of major storms can linger for over a decade. So far, more than 120 people across six states have already been confirmed dead in Helene’sContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Oct. 1, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Following the historic destruction of Hurricane Helene, many Americans must now return to their mangled homes and begin the heartbreaking task of clean-up. After making landfall in Florida near Tallahassee as a ferocious Cat 4 storm on Thursday, Helene caused record-breaking storm surgesContinue Reading
MONDAY, Sept. 30, 2024 (HealthDay News) — More than 14 million seniors a year take a tumble, and those falls can be life-changing. “The relationship between falls and dementia appears to be a two-way street,” said Molly Jarman, senior author of a new study showing that cognitive decline may increaseContinue Reading
MONDAY, Sept. 30, 2024 (HealthDay News) — In what could be the first cases of bird flu spreading between humans in the United States, a group of potential H5N1 infections in Missouri has now grown to eight. Antibody tests to confirm any H5N1 infection are still pending. After a patientContinue Reading
FRIDAY, September 27, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Folks who depend on e-bikes and powered scooters to get around know they might get hurt, but they might be surprised by just how likely that really is. Rates of injury on the trendy transportation devices skyrocketed between 2019 and 2022, Columbia UniversityContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Sept. 26, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Brain damage that veterans suffered from flying shrapnel has provided a major clue that could lead to better treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a new study says. Veterans who suffered shrapnel damage connected to their amygdala, the fear center of the brain,Continue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 25, 2024 (HealthDay News) — During a tense hearing before a Senate committee on Tuesday, Novo Nordisk CEO Lars Fruergaard Jørgensen faced tough questions over the company’s high prices for its blockbuster drugs Ozempic and Wegovy. While testifying before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions,Continue Reading