MONDAY, Nov. 4, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Women who’ve had concussions are more likely to suffer severe mental health problems following childbirth, a new study shows. A history of concussion increased a new mother’s risk of severe mental illness by 25%, after adjusting for other factors, Canadian researchers reported. “WeContinue Reading
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FRIDAY, Nov. 1, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Are people with autism less able to “read” the nefarious intent of criminals, leaving them more vulnerable to scams or coercion into criminal activity? It’s been a common notion among trial lawyers, the Australian researchers behind a new report say, but it’s notContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Oct. 31, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A person battling multiple sclerosis spent an average of $750 in out-of-pocket fees on medicines in 2012, but by 2021 that same patient spent $2,378 annually, a new report finds. Out-of-pocket costs for drugs for neurologic diseases such as MS, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’sContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 30, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Big surges in new autism diagnoses among young adults, as well a rise in diagnoses for girls and young women, have driven a near-tripling of U.S. autism cases in just over a decade, researchers report. Data on over 12 million patients enrolled inContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 30, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Find it hard to take time to exercise during your busy workweek? No problem, a new study says — one or two “weekend warrior” workouts are just as likely to help you maintain your brain health. People who regularly exercise, whether solely onContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 30, 2024 (HealthDay News) — People who regularly use marijuana experience changes in their brain structure and function, but it’s not clear that cannabis is the cause, a new study finds. Researchers found specific differences in the brains of people who’d ever used weed, particularly in areas denselyContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Oct. 29, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Most kids with attention issues won’t go on to develop serious psychiatric conditions like psychosis or schizophrenia. However, a new study finds poor attention spans in childhood, plus certain genes, could play a role in raising the risk for these conditions. Of course,Continue Reading
MONDAY, Oct. 28, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Smoking marijuana during pregnancy may quell your morning sickness, but it could also harm your child’s development, a new study warns. Cannabis exposure in the womb is associated in early childhood with poorer thinking skills, researchers reported Oct. 28 in the journal JAMAContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Oct. 29, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Repeated concussions dramatically increase a hockey player’s risk of depression and burnout, a new study warns. Hockey players who’d suffered three or more concussions had twice the risk of depression symptoms than whose who’d never had a concussion, researchers found. They also facedContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Oct. 25, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Texts deliver rapid-fire messages, but a new study indicates human brains can keep up with the barrage. The brain can detect the basic linguistic structure of a brief sentence in roughly 150 milliseconds — about the speed of a blink of an eye,Continue Reading
FRIDAY, Oct. 25, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Medication and behavioral therapy are both effective in combatting fatigue caused by multiple sclerosis (MS), either separately or together, a new study finds. MS patients felt significantly less fatigue after they were prescribed modafinil (Provigil), a drug that promotes wakefulness and is usedContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Oct. 25, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Brain scans can provide early warning of who will develop chronic pain following a whiplash injury, a new study finds. Higher levels of “cross talk” between two specific brain regions within one to three days of the injury increases the risk that painContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Oct. 24, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Certain gut microbes might be linked to a person’s risk of developing Parkinson’s disease, a new study suggests. People prescribed multiple courses of penicillin antibiotics have a modestly lower risk of developing Parkinson’s, researchers found. Those antibiotics might be affecting bacterial populations inContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Oct. 24, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Add Alzheimer’s disease to the list of conditions that might benefit from the revolutionary diabetes drug Ozempic, a new study says. People with type 2 diabetes taking semaglutide appeared to have a significantly lower risk of developing Alzheimer’s compared to patients taking sevenContinue Reading