TUESDAY, Jan. 11, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Private insurers will have to cover the cost of eight at-home COVID tests per person per month as of Saturday, the Biden administration announced Monday. “Today’s action further removes financial barriers and expands access to COVID-19 tests for millions of people,” Chiquita Brooks-LaSure,Continue Reading
TUESDAY, Jan. 11, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Beating cancer is a huge feat, but how survivors live their lives afterwards also influences their longevity. A new study shows those who sit too much and are not physically active are much more likely to die early from cancer or any otherContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Jan. 11, 2022 – (HealthDay News) — Men who are broken-hearted or just unlucky in love could be more likely to have health-damaging inflammation, new research suggests. Serious breakups and solo living for many years may increase the risk of ill health and death — but apparently only forContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Jan. 11, 2022 (HealthDay News) — If you think frequent changes in weather are triggering your allergy symptoms, you may be right. A shift from a cold front to a rainy day then back to warm weather can have an impact on those with allergies, said Dr. David Corry,Continue Reading
TUESDAY, Jan. 11, 2022 (HealthDay News) — The sex lives of dolphins may seem to be an esoteric scientific subject, but there are researchers who wondered if a certain part of a female dolphin’s anatomy might produce pleasure. “Every time we dissected a vagina, we would see this very largeContinue Reading
MONDAY, Jan. 10, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Medicare has been told to reassess a significant premium increase it had announced that largely stemmed from the expensive new Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm. U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra’s directive, which was announced on Monday, comes shortly after Aduhelm maker BiogenContinue Reading
MONDAY, Jan. 10, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Researchers say they’ve uncovered a clue to why the Omicron variant spreads COVID-19 so much more rapidly than its predecessors. People who are infected but have no symptoms are still far more likely to infect others than they would have been with earlierContinue Reading
MONDAY, Jan. 10, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Exercise helps you stay fit, hale and hearty, and researchers say it may also help you stave off dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. Now they have a better understanding of the hidden benefits that aid the brain. Older folks who are more physically activeContinue Reading
MONDAY, Jan. 10, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Swabs that come with at-home rapid antigen COVID-19 tests should be used in the nose and not the throat, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warns. It issued the warning on Twitter in response to reports that some people are using swabs intendedContinue Reading
MONDAY, Jan. 10, 2022 (HealthDay News) — For people newly diagnosed with advanced melanoma, a combination of two immunotherapy drugs can double the amount of time their cancer remains progression-free, a clinical trial has found. The treatment combines two drugs known as immune checkpoint inhibitors. One, called nivolumab (Opdivo), isContinue Reading