THURSDAY, April 25, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Young people researching health topics on TikTok will find an alarming amount of misinformation on the platform, a new study says. About 44% of TikTok videos related to sinusitis contained non-factual information, researchers reported recently in the journal Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. Further,Continue Reading
THURSDAY, April 24, 2024 (HealthDay News) — People taking heartburn meds have a higher risk of migraines and other types of severe headaches, a new study warns. All classes of acid-reducing drugs — proton pump inhibitors, H2 blockers, and even antacids — appear to promote an increased risk of migraineContinue 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 15, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Among U.S. women with migraine, a third say the attacks tend to coincide with their periods, a new survey finds. Migraines that occur during menstruation are often frequent and severe, but only about one in five respondents said they used medications aimed atContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, April 3, 2024 (HealthDay News) — When a soldier is rushed to medical care following a blast or other injury to the head, time is crucial in deciding just how extensive that injury is. Now, the U.S. Army has announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has clearedContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, March 27, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Migraines in young adults appear to increase their risk of stroke more than traditional risk factors like high blood pressure, a new study reports. Results show that migraine is the most important non-traditional risk factor for stroke among adults ages 18 to 34,Continue Reading
TUESDAY, March 19, 2024 (HealthDay News) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first drug to treat yeast ear infections in dogs. DuOtic is also the first ear infection medication that does not contain an antibiotic, the FDA said in its approval announcement. The drug will allowContinue Reading
FRIDAY, March 15, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Astronauts who have never had headaches may develop migraines and other tension-type headaches for the first time when they go into space. A side effect of zero gravity, these headaches start with motion sickness as astronauts adapt to long-haul space flight, according toContinue Reading
TUESDAY, March 5, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A new smartphone app can help doctors more accurately diagnose ear infections in babies and small children, potentially reducing unnecessary antibiotic use in kids, researchers report. Ear infections — known by doctors as acute otitis media (AOM) — can be difficult to diagnose,Continue Reading
FRIDAY, March 1, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Vaping and skipped meals appear to be the main causes of frequent headaches among teens, a new study says. Teens who ate breakfast and dinner with their family had a lower risk of frequent headaches than those who regularly missed meals, researchers reportContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 28, 2024 (HealthDay News) — What if you’d been treated for years for a condition, only to find out that you’d long ago been misdiagnosed? That’s what’s happening to a sizable number of Americans who are taking allergy meds (to little effect) when in fact they have chronicContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Feb. 27, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Stuffy, sneezing, miserable: folks plagued by chronic sinusitis know the feeling all too well. Experts at University of Cincinnati Health say it’s also an all-too-common affliction, affecting an estimated 14.6% of Americans. What is chronic sinusitis? The sinuses are air-filled spaces in theContinue Reading
MONDAY, Feb. 26, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Many younger children could be permanently damaging their hearing by blasting loud music on their earbuds and headphones, a new report finds. Two in three parents say that their child between the ages of 5 and 12 regularly pop listening devices in theirContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 14, 2024 (HealthDay News) — As if painful migraines, hot flashes and night sweats weren’t bad enough, many women in menopause are facing a significantly bigger threat. New research suggests that women with both migraines and vasomotor symptoms (hot flashes and night sweats) are significantly more likely toContinue Reading