THURSDAY, March 7, 2024 (HealthDay News) — There’s more good news around the diabetes and weight-loss drug Ozempic: It might help ease fatty liver disease in people living with HIV, new research shows. Six months of weekly injections of Ozempic (semaglutide) resulted in an average 31% reduction of a harmfulContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, March 6, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Childhood exposure to lead has long been a public health concern, with lead in water and paint leading to brain damage and developmental delays in kids. Now researchers have uncovered an unexpected source of household lead exposure — firearm ammunition. There’s about aContinue Reading
TUESDAY, March 5, 2024 (HealthDay News) — In a move that acknowledges that COVID-19 is no longer the danger it once was, the White House on Monday lifted a COVID testing requirement for anyone who plans to be near President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and their spouses. TheContinue Reading
TUESDAY, March 5, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Many people protected by drugs that prevent HIV infection quit using them, upping their vulnerability to the virus that causes AIDS, new research shows. The drug combo known as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is now a mainstay of HIV prevention among gay and bisexualContinue Reading
FRIDAY, March 1, 2024 (HealthDay News) — New guidance issued Friday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that Americans who test positive for COVID-19 no longer need to routinely stay home for five days. Instead, the CDC recommends “returning to normal activities when, for at leastContinue Reading
FRIDAY, March 1, 2024 (HealthDay News) — The adjustment to and from daylight saving time might be a biannual annoyance, but there’s no evidence that it harms a person’s heart health, a new study finds. Data from more than 36 million adults ages 18 and older found no connection betweenContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Feb. 23, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Increasingly, knee replacement surgeries are requiring follow-up operations when post-op complications arise. Now, new research from the University of Texas Southwestern is illuminating whether you might fall into a high-risk category for these second surgeries. According to the researchers, the rate at whichContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Feb. 16, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Medication abortion can be delivered safely and effectively using telemedicine, a large, new study concludes. Women who received abortion pills through the mail following a video visit with a doctor fared just as well as women who visited a clinic, researchers report Feb.Continue Reading
FRIDAY, Feb. 16, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Big cats may be more attuned to humans than you think: New research shows that lions, tigers and cheetahs can recognize familiar human voices and tell them apart from strangers. Investigators found consistent evidence of voice recognition among 25 big cats of variousContinue Reading
Good-tasting tea depends on soil microbes found in the plant’s roots, a new study says Microbes influence the production of theanine, an amino acid that contributes to tea flavor Synthetically produced microbial colonies boosted theanine levels in tea trees THURSDAY, Feb. 15, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A delicious cup ofContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Feb. 9, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Medical tourism to Mexico for cosmetic procedures exposed Americans to a deadly fungal infection last year, a new report shows. An outbreak of Fusarium solani meningitis occurred at two clinics in Matamoros specializing in elective cosmetic procedures like breast augmentation, liposuction and BrazilianContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Feb. 8, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Two studies that warned of the harms of the abortion pill have been retracted by the journals’ publisher over flaws in the data and conflicts of interest among the researchers. Complicating matters even further, the papers were cited in a Texas Court rulingContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 24, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Reiterating a plea it made earlier this month, the American Red Cross is urging people to roll up their sleeves and give blood. A series of severe winter storms this month have exacerbated an already bad situation, as a shortage of lifesaving donatedContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 24, 2024 (HealthDay News) — JN.1, the COVID variant sweeping the country this winter, is not prompting more severe disease than earlier variants did, early U.S. government data suggests. While it does not appear to be more deadly than its predecessors, the JN.1 variant has surged in recentContinue Reading