WEDNESDAY, July 13, 2022 (HealthDay News) — The potent influence of social media may include tobacco use. By analyzing 29 previously published studies, researchers found that people who viewed social media that contained tobacco content were more than twice as likely to report using tobacco and were more likely toContinue Reading
MONDAY, July 11, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Early in the pandemic, scores of Americans bought pulse oximeters to help determine how sick they were while infected with COVID-19, but new research finds the devices often miss dangerously low blood oxygen levels in Black veterans. This is not the first timeContinue Reading
MONDAY, July 11, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Transgender patients who get gender-affirming surgery to create more feminine facial features say it’s a big boost to their mental health, a new study reports. Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), compared the mental health of 107 patients awaiting surgeryContinue Reading
FRIDAY, July 8, 2022 (HealthDay News) — If your doctor has told you that you need shoulder surgery and you’re worried about complications, a new British study indicates you can relax. Only 1.2% of more than 260,000 patients suffered from complications following arthroscopic surgery to repair shoulder injuries, the researchersContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, July 6, 2022 (HealthDay News) – The risk of being hospitalized for heart failure after surgery is higher in patients who develop an abnormal heart rhythm, a new, large study shows. Of more than 76,000 heart surgery patients, about 18.8% developed post-operative atrial fibrillation (A-Fib). Researchers found their riskContinue Reading
FRIDAY, July 1, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Hinting at a future alternative to opioid painkillers, scientists have developed a tiny implant designed to ease post-surgery pain and then dissolve once the job is done. So far, the research has been limited to lab animals, and it will be several yearsContinue Reading
TUESDAY, June 28, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Women of color may face delays in getting a biopsy after a screening mammogram suggests they might have breast cancer, a large, new study finds. Researchers found that compared with white women, Asian, Black and Hispanic women were all more likely to waitContinue Reading
TUESDAY, June 28, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Facebook and Instagram have started taking down posts that offer abortion pills to women who may not be able to get them after the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade. These posts told women how to get abortion pills through the mailContinue Reading
TUESDAY, June 28, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Adolescents who experience cyberbullying are more likely to think about suicide, a new study shows. Researchers found a link between being bullied online, through texts or on social media, and thoughts of suicide that go above and beyond the link between suicidal thoughtsContinue Reading
MONDAY, June 27, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Are you plagued by FOMO — “fear of missing out”? Then silencing your smartphone may not be the stress-buster you think it is. That’s the takeaway from a new study that found many folks check their phones a lot more when they’re setContinue Reading
MONDAY, June 27, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Testing for HIV suffered a sharp setback during the first year of the pandemic, new government data shows. The number of HIV tests funded by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and administered in health care settings dropped 43% between 2019Continue Reading
THURSDAY, June 23, 2022 (HealthDay News) — When breast cancer patients sleep, tumor cells may “awaken” and spread through the bloodstream, a surprising study out of Switzerland reveals. Circulating cancer cells that later form new growths (metastases) do not arise continuously as previously assumed, according to researchers at ETH Zurich,Continue Reading
THURSDAY, June 23, 2022 (HealthDay News) — To ensure that all kinds of patients get drugs and devices that are safe and effective for them, they need to be represented in clinical trials, but a new study shows that representation of women in key disease areas continues to lag. ResearchersContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, June 22, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Could your smartwatch know you have a COVID infection before you do? It might be possible one day. New research suggests that wearable activity trackers that monitor the changes in your skin temperature, heart and breathing rates, combined with artificial intelligence, could beContinue Reading