THURSDAY, Nov. 25, 2021 (HealthDay News) – Add an inexpensive gout drug to the growing list of medications touted as potential COVID-19 treatments — only to offer no apparent benefit. The anti-inflammatory drug colchicine doesn’t lessen COVID severity, the risk of death or shorten hospital stays, a new study reports.Continue Reading
THURSDAY, Nov. 25, 2021 (HealthDay News) — New treatment options are giving hope to patients with stomach cancer. Also known as gastric cancer, the disease is the world’s sixth most common cancer with 1.09 million new cases in 2020, according to the World Health Organization. It’s an abnormal growth ofContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Nov. 25, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Protection can gradually fade after a second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine by Pfizer-BioNTech, which suggests that a booster shot might be necessary, researchers report. They analyzed data from more than 80,000 adults in Israel, average age 44, who had no previous evidenceContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 24, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Parents and children who were separated under the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy have shown lasting psychological trauma — even after being reunited, a new study finds. Between 2017 and 2018, more than 5,000 children were separated from their parents at theContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 24, 2021 (HealthDay News) — A wearable device that could inject a lifesaving antidote for an opioid overdose might be on the horizon. A new study shows that the device, worn on the stomach like an insulin pump, can detect when someone stops breathing from an overdose andContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 24, 2021 (HealthDay News) — The number of people who were hospitalized for eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia doubled in May 2020, about two months after the COVID-19 pandemic was officially declared a national emergency. The new study didn’t look at why there was such aContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 24, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Republican lawmakers in several states are pushing vaccine mandate exemptions for workers who have so-called natural immunity due to a previous COVID-19 infection. That’s despite evidence that vaccination can reduce the risk of COVID-19 even for those with a history of infection, andContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 24, 2021 (American Heart Association News) — In this day of over-the-top, gender-reveal parties, Traci Poore was different. She and her first husband didn’t want to know whether they were having a boy or a girl. They didn’t find out with their firstborn before she came into theContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 24, 2021 (HealthDay News) — People will probably need regular booster shots for COVID-19 over the next few years to keep their immune systems on guard against a potentially deadly infection, an infectious disease expert says. COVID mutations and high transmission rates in some parts of the countryContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Nov. 24, 2021 (HealthDay News) — CVS Health, Walmart and Walgreens contributed to opioid overdoses and deaths in two Ohio counties, a federal jury in Cleveland found Tuesday. The first jury verdict in an opioids case came in the closely watched test case and may prove encouraging to plaintiffsContinue Reading