TUESDAY, Jan. 2, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Despite a common belief in the medical community and elsewhere, the vast majority of people who undergo gender-affirming surgery do not regret it later. In all, less than 1% of people who underwent gender-affirming surgery said they wished they hadn’t done it, aContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 27, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Hardened arteries are almost twice as common in night owls as in early birds, a new study shows. About two in five people (40%) who stay up very late had severely hardened arteries, compared with 22% of people who wake early, according toContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Dec. 22, 2023 (HealthDay News) — A man becoming incredibly uncomfortable when a woman starts crying – to the point he’ll do anything to make her stop – is a reliable old chestnut in TV and movies. But there appears to be a biochemical truth to that cliché, aContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 20, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Warmer weather linked to climate change is likely to cause rampaging clouds of mosquitos in the future, a new study forecasts. Rising temperatures can make it tougher for the predators that feast on mosquito larvae to effectively control mosquito populations, researchers say. That’sContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Dec. 19, 2023 (HealthDay News) — COVID-19 appears to have paralyzed a teen girl’s vocal cords, blocking her breathing to the point that surgery was required, a new case report says. The case suggests that vocal cord paralysis might be a rare complication of COVID infection, caused by theContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Dec. 19, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Cases keep rising in an outbreak of salmonella illness tied to cantaloupes that began last month, with 302 people now sickened across 42 states, federal officials said. As of Dec. 15, four people had died and 129 had been hospitalized in the outbreak,Continue Reading
TUESDAY, Dec. 19, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Probiotics might be able to help people dodge the worst effects of COVID-19, new clinical trial results show. Unvaccinated people who took a lactobacillus-laced probiotic had reduced COVID symptoms and even delayed infection, researchers report in the January issue of the journal ClinicalContinue Reading
MONDAY, Dec. 18, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Add another post-COVID hazard to the list: Research suggests having the illness could raise risks for dangerous irregular heart beats. According to Swedish researchers, the odds a person might develop atrial fibrillation — a common arrhythmia linked to stroke — rose 12-fold inContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Dec. 14, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Any type of time spent looking at screens before bed is bad for kids’ sleep, but new research shows that “interactive” screen time — texting and video games, for example — is especially harmful. The effects of interactive screen time on sleep mightContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 13, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Connor Heinz started experiencing periods of a racing heartbeat at age 12, but doctors were having a hard time pinning down the problem. The heart monitor Connor wore was too irritating, and his irregular heart rhythms were happening only once every few monthsContinue Reading
MONDAY, Dec. 11, 2023 (HealthDay News) — An outbreak of deadly tick-borne disease is occurring among people who’ve recently been to Baja California in Mexico, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warns. Three out of five patients have died from infection with Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF), theContinue Reading
MONDAY, Dec. 11, 2023 (HealthDay News) — When an HIV-infected child known as the ‘Mississippi baby’ was given powerful antiretroviral drugs within hours of birth in 2013 and then appeared to be rid of HIV, people wondered if it might be replicated in other newborns. An international study involving 54Continue Reading
SATURDAY, Dec. 9, 2023 (HealthDay News) — It has likely happened to everyone at some point: You are poised to go to sleep, but instead a “digital distraction” keeps you up hours later than you had planned. “Bedtime procrastination is a common problem, as people often stay up later thanContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 6, 2023 (HealthDay News) — “Cycle syncing” – the notion that women should adapt their diet and exercise patterns to their menstrual cycle – has become a trendy topic online. Some experts argue that it can reduce a woman’s symptoms prior to and during her period. But aContinue Reading