WEDNESDAY, March 10, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Financial worries can hamper the success of cancer treatment and raise patients’ risk of death, according to a new study that offers the first evidence of such a link. “The association we found was very strong, and very concerning,” said senior study authorContinue Reading
TUESDAY, March 9, 2021 (HealthDay News) — A new type of surgery offers amputees better control of muscles that remain after surgery, and of their prosthetic limbs, its inventors say. The standard surgical approach to amputation has changed little since the American Civil War, according to developers of the newContinue Reading
TUESDAY, March 9, 2021 (HealthDay News) — The number of Americans recommended for routine CT scans to spot lung cancer just got a lot bigger. People between the ages of 50 and 80 who don’t have symptoms of lung cancer, but are at high risk for the disease due toContinue Reading
TUESDAY, March 9, 2021 (HealthDay News) — If a nice hot cup of tea sounds good to you, there’s even more reason to enjoy one now. Scientists have gained new insight into how tea helps lower blood pressure, perhaps pointing the way to new types of blood pressure medications. TheContinue Reading
MONDAY, March 8, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Just two weeks of treatment with an experimental drug can delay the onset of type 1 diabetes by several years, researchers report. The drug, called teplizumab, is already under review by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration based on earlier evidence of itsContinue Reading
TUESDAY, March 9, 2021 (HealthDay News) — If you’ve had major sinus or skull base surgery, you should talk with your ear, nose and throat doctor before getting a COVID-19 nasal swab test, researchers advise. It’s also crucial for health workers performing swab testing to ask whether the patient hasContinue Reading
MONDAY, March 8, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Researchers who recorded the most detailed images ever made of newborns’ lungs as they took their first breaths say the breakthrough could improve treatment of breathing problems in babies. “Respiratory problems are the most common reason we need to treat babies in intensiveContinue Reading
FRIDAY, March 5, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Readers pay attention when social media sites label an article as “unverified” or “suspicious,” a new study suggests. But how an article is presented — including author credentials and writing style — doesn’t affect readers’ views about its credibility. The findings show thatContinue Reading
FRIDAY, March 5, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Many women suffer through countless urinary tract infections (UTIs), but a new study in mice offers hope that a vaccine could one day bring their nightmares to an end. “Although several vaccines against UTIs have been investigated in clinical trials, they have soContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, March 3, 2021 (HealthDay News) — The first U.S. case of a Brazilian COVID-19 variant that doctors fear can re-infect the previously sick surfaced in Minnesota in early January 2021, and the more infectious variant has since been found in four other states, a new government report says. KnownContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, March 3, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Doctors are testing a decades-old surgical technique as a new way to treat certain stroke patients. And the preliminary results look promising, they say. At issue are strokes caused by intracranial atherosclerosis, where blood vessels within the brain become hardened and narrowed. StrokesContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, March 3, 2021 (HealthDay News) — A clinical trial evaluating the use of convalescent plasma in patients with mild to moderate COVID-19 symptoms has been halted because the treatment didn’t benefit them, according to the U.S. National Institutes of Health. Convalescent plasma (also called “survivor’s plasma”) is derived fromContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, March 3, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Two new studies suggest that the jury is still out on whether the arthritis drug tocilizumab helps those with severe COVID-19. Both reports were published recently in the New England Journal of Medicine. The first, from scientists at the University of California, SanContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, March 3, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Researchers have identified 44 new genetic variants associated with glaucoma, a leading cause of blindness. They say their findings could provide new targets to treat the common eye disease. In their study, the international team compared the genes of more than 34,000 peopleContinue Reading