TUESDAY, May 4, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Cancer patients most likely to sign up for clinical trials during their treatment include people of color, those with higher incomes and those who are younger, a new study finds. “This study informs our understanding of who is participating in cancer clinical trials,”Continue Reading
MONDAY, May 3, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Health care in rural America has become ever more scarce during the coronavirus pandemic, with folks finding it increasingly difficult to find a doctor or get to a hospital. For a decade, rural areas have been losing hospitals to financial problems, forcing residentsContinue Reading
FRIDAY, April 30, 2021 (HealthDay News) — COVID-19 research efforts must now shift toward the development of a pill that can prevent serious illness in the recently infected, experts say. “We need a pill that can keep people out of the hospital, and the time to develop that is rightContinue Reading
FRIDAY, April 30, 2021 (HealthDay News) — The Middle East and North Africa are already among the hottest spots on the planet, but new research warns that if nothing is done to slow climate change there will be life-threatening heat waves with temperatures of 132 Fahrenheit or higher in thoseContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, April 28, 2021 (HealthDay News) — When gender-diverse or transgender people have surgeries to affirm their gender, they experience a variety of positive mental health outcomes, new research shows. The study found an association between the surgeries, which participants had at least two years prior to a survey, andContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, April 28, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Like many proud moms, Lisa Stockman-Mauriello of Summit, N.J., is looking forward to exciting milestones in lives of her three sons over the coming months: One will graduate college, one will enter college, and the third will begin high school. But unlike otherContinue Reading
MONDAY, April 26, 2021 (HealthDay News) — An experimental COVID-19 vaccine could potentially provide universal protection against future COVID variants as well as other coronaviruses — maybe even the ones responsible for the common cold. And it’s dirt cheap — less than $1 a dose, researchers say. The vaccine targetsContinue Reading
MONDAY, April 26, 2021 (HealthDay News) — A breakthrough psoriasis drug is better at treating the itchy and painful skin disease than medicines already on the market, according to results from two clinical trials. There was a “night and day difference” in the results from bimekizumab compared against two establishedContinue Reading
FRIDAY, April 23, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Everyone has probably heard the expression “you are what you eat,” but do you eat what you want, or do you follow the crowd? New research suggests that what people have at lunch is influenced by the friends or coworkers who they areContinue Reading
FRIDAY, April 23, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Heather Gould, a wedding planner in Sonoma, Calif., always had some social anxiety. Before the pandemic, she’d feel queasy and think twice about going out. But Gould would power through, talking her way through industry events and client meetings without tipping off herContinue Reading
FRIDAY, April 23, 2021 (HealthDay News) — There’s no evidence of genetic damage in the children of parents who were exposed to radiation from the 1986 Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster in Ukraine, researchers say. Several previous studies have examined the risks across generations of radiation exposure from events suchContinue Reading
THURSDAY, April 22, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Autism appears to develop differently in girls and boys, so the findings of research conducted mainly with boys might not apply to girls, a new study suggests. Autism spectrum disorder is four times more common in boys, which may help explain why there’sContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, April 21, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Outspoken pandemic denier Ted Nugent announced this week that he’s tested positive for COVID-19, after 10 days of symptoms so severe that at times he “literally could hardly crawl out of bed.” But despite his illness, the Republican rocker from Michigan remains skepticalContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, April 21, 2021 (HealthDay News) — An emerging technology could zap your post-op pain away — little or no opioids needed. The technique is called percutaneous peripheral nerve stimulation. It involves inserting a small wire next to a nerve and using a stimulator to deliver a mild electrical currentContinue Reading