WEDNESDAY, April 24, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A budget-busting 3.6 million Medicare recipients could now be eligible for coverage of the weight-loss drug Wegovy, a new KFF analysis says. That’s because the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the use of Wegovy (semaglutide) to reduce the risk of heartContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, April 24, 2024 (HealthDay News) — America’s mental health woes essentially serve as an annual economic downturn for the nation, a new study says. Mental illness costs the U.S. economy $282 billion every year, equivalent to the average economic recession, researchers report. That estimate amounts to about 1.7% ofContinue Reading
TUESDAY, April 23, 2024 (HealthDay News) — About six out of 10 working-age adults hit with a cancer diagnosis say it put real pressure on their financial survival, a new report finds. “Today’s findings reiterate the critical role access to affordable, quality care and paid family medical leave plays inContinue Reading
TUESDAY, April 23, 2024 (HealthDay News) — The gender of your doctor may play a part in your prognosis: New research shows that hospitalized patients are less likely to die if they’re treated by a female physician. About 10.15% of men and 8.2% of women died while under the careContinue Reading
TUESDAY, April 23, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Active military service appears to increase a woman’s risk of having a low birthweight baby, a new review finds. Nearly two-thirds of studies (63%) conclude that women on active service could be at higher risk of having a baby with low birth weight,Continue Reading
TUESDAY, April 23, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Soldiers can suffer brain injury if they are repeatedly exposed to explosive blasts, a new study shows. Further, the more frequently a soldier is exposed to explosions, the greater their risk for brain injury, researchers reported April 22 in the Proceedings of theContinue Reading
MONDAY, April 22, 2024 (HealthDay News) — The H5N1 avian flu virus that’s infecting U.S. cattle is increasingly showing up in mammals — a dangerous sign that it could someday easily infect people. That’s the warning issued late last week by World Health Organization chief scientist Dr. Jeremy Farrar, CNNContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, April 10, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Most seniors have embraced “doc-in-a-box” strip mall clinics and urgent care centers as a means of getting prompt medical care, a new poll has found. About 60% of people ages 50 to 80 have visited an urgent care center or a retail healthContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, April 3, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A Texas plant full of egg-laying hens has been shut down temporarily after bird flu was detected in the animals. Cal-Maine Foods, the largest egg producer in the country, said in a news release issued Tuesday that it had to subsequently cull about 1.6Continue Reading
WEDNESDAY, April 3, 2024 (HealthDay News) — It might be too soon to rely solely on machine learning for health advice, a new study finds. After pitting the latest AI against actual human physicians, the doctors easily won, reports a team led by Dr. Andrei Brateanu, of the Cleveland ClinicContinue Reading
MONDAY, April 1, 2024 (HealthDay News) — An unnamed person in Texas had been diagnosed with the H5N1 avian flu after close contact with infected dairy cattle, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Monday. It’s only the second case ever confirmed in the United States (the firstContinue Reading
THURSDAY, April 1, 2024 (HealthDay News) — In a letter sent to teaching hospitals and medical schools across the country, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said Monday that written consent must be obtained from patients before performing sensitive procedures such as pelvis and prostate exams. The agencyContinue Reading
FRIDAY, March 29, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Stem cells derived from a patient’s own fat can safely help improve sensation and movement after a spinal cord injury, a new, small study finds. Patients treated with these stem cells experienced increased sensation from pinpricks and light touches, increased muscle strength andContinue Reading
FRIDAY, March 29, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Artificial intelligence programs could be an effective way to relieve the paperwork burden that keeps doctors from seeing more patients, a new study finds. The AI program Chat GPT can write administrative medical notes up to ten times faster than doctors without compromisingContinue Reading