FRIDAY, June 3, 2022 (HealthDay News) — The number of known U.S. monkeypox cases has increased to 21 in 11 states, federal health officials announced Friday. The cases are also concentrated largely among gay or bisexual men, with the virus apparently transmitted as a result of intimate skin-to-skin contact, accordingContinue Reading
FRIDAY, June 3, 2022 (HealthDay News) — At least three elderly Americans suffocated after getting trapped in Mobility Transfer Systems adult portable bedrails, and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) says anyone who has the rails should stop using them immediately. The warning applies to 10 models of bedrailsContinue Reading
THURSDAY, June 2, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Racial disparities in health outcomes persist in the United States, with Black and Hispanic Americans more likely to die within a month after a bleeding stroke than white Americans, a new study shows. “We’ve known that there are disparities in death from strokeContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, May 25, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Beginning June 4, Abbott Nutrition will restart producing baby formula at a shuttered factory that’s been central to the ongoing shortage of infant formula in the United States, the company announced on Tuesday. The factory in Sturgis, Mich., has been closed since FebruaryContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, May 25, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Up until recently monkeypox infection outside of Africa was rare, but a look back at seven cases occurring in Britain over the past few years gives hints at what drugs work to fight the disease — and which don’t. The need to betterContinue Reading
TUESDAY, May 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Race and ethnicity matter when battling colon cancer, with young white patients facing notably better odds than Black, Hispanic or Asian patients, new research warns. A look at colon cancer survival among Americans younger than 50 turned up a glaring discrepancy: Survival fiveContinue Reading
TUESDAY, May 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) — The COVID-19 pandemic and the isolation it imposed took a dramatic toll on kids’ mental health, increasing the demand for services in an already overburdened system. As a result, many kids found themselves being “boarded” in emergency departments as they awaited care, accordingContinue Reading
TUESDAY, May 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Creating more parks and other green spaces could have prevented tens of thousands of deaths in dozens of large U.S. cities over the past two decades, a new study says. “We’ve known that living in greener areas can have a positive impact onContinue Reading
MONDAY, May 23, 2022 (HealthDay News) — At a Monday media briefing, U.S. public health officials said they are tracking a handful of travel-related monkeypox cases that have been reported across the country. Anyone can catch monkeypox, but at this time it appears to be “circulating globally in some partsContinue Reading
MONDAY, May 23, 2022 (HealthDay News) — As the weather warms and families flock to pools, dirty water may dampen the fun. Swimmers at a Pennsylvania community pool learned that the hard way when in June 2021 more than a dozen kids were seriously sickened by two types of bacteria,Continue Reading
MONDAY, May 23, 2022 (HealthDay News) — If you’re poor and have a severe type of heart attack, the chance you’ll live through it is significantly lower than that of someone with more money, new research shows. The finding underscores the need to close a divide in health care thatContinue Reading
MONDAY, May 23, 2022 (HealthDay News) — A 35-ton shipment of hypoallergenic baby formula from Switzerland arrived in the United States on Sunday, the first delivery in what the Biden administration is calling “Operation Fly Formula” to deal with a nationwide shortage. The 132 pallets of formula arrived in IndianapolisContinue Reading
MONDAY, May 23, 2022 (HealthDay News) — A worrisome international outbreak of monkeypox, a less harmful cousin of the smallpox virus, has now reached the United States and Canada. As of Saturday, 92 confirmed cases of the illness, and 28 more suspected cases, have been reported across 12 countries, accordingContinue Reading
MONDAY, May 23, 2022 (HealthDay News) — With Roe v. Wade hanging in the balance and nearly half of all American states ready to practically ban abortion if the leaked draft opinion from the Supreme Court stands, the realities of giving birth in this country are being put under aContinue Reading