WEDNESDAY, Dec. 11, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Ableism, or prejudice against people with disabilities, is an established problem in general healthcare. Now, a small study shows those same issues persist in mental healthcare. Sometimes, the barriers to care are physical, such as inaccessible entrances or a lack of reliable transit.Continue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 11, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Canadian Rowan Ladd scratched her head when doctors said they might bank a blood donation from her at the start of her 2022 liver surgery, but she figured it couldn’t hurt. “You’re told before surgery that the liver is so full of bloodContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Dec. 10, 2024 (HealthDay News) — More breast cancers are being detected later in women, giving the tumors a chance to spread and become life-threatening, a new study finds. This increase in late-stage breast cancer affects women at all ages and ethnicities, according to results published Dec. 10 inContinue Reading
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TUESDAY, Dec. 10, 2024 (HealthDay News) — “This is your brain on drugs,” the old anti-drug admonition says, and now a new study has found there’s something to that chestnut. Opioid addicts experienced structural and functional changes in specific regions of their brains, MRI scans show. These changes are importantContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Dec. 10, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Fatty, salty and sugary ultra-processed foods could be increasing people’s risk of colon cancer by spurring chronic inflammation in the gut. In a new study, colon tumors taken from people with poor diets had higher levels of pro-inflammatory biochemicals, as well as lowerContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Dec. 10, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Heavy smoke from wildfires more frequently chokes the skies over the Western United States, but cities farther to the east are no longer being spared, new research shows. Canada’s unusually intense 2023 wildfire season smothered American cities as far off as Baltimore andContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Dec. 10, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Robert Kennedy Jr. should not be confirmed to lead the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, over 75 Nobel laureates urged Monday. In a letter published by the New York Times, the esteemed scientists took issue with Kennedy’s lack of experience andContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Dec. 10, 2024 (HealthDay News) — People with diabetes who are taking GLP-1 meds such as Ozempic or Mounjaro may be getting an added bonus: Reductions in their odds for a dangerous blood clot, new research finds. The study found that folks with diabetes who were using the drugsContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Dec. 10, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Over 3 million Americans with asthma can’t afford to take their medications as prescribed, a new poll estimates. In total, about 1 in 6 folks with asthma are struggling to cover the costs of inhalers and other medications, according to survey results publishedContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Dec. 10, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Inebriated e-scooter and e-bike users, many of them teens, are increasingly showing up in the nation’s emergency rooms, new research shows. Overall, rates of injuries from these “micromobility” devices have tripled in recent years — from close to 23,000 in 2019 to nearlyContinue Reading