SATURDAY, Sept. 7, 2024 (HealthDay News) — As a new federal regulation that requires mammography centers to tell their patients how dense their breasts are takes effect, experts explain what breast density is and why it is important. The American College of Surgeons’ National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers (NAPBC) standards, revised lastContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Sept. 6, 2024 (HealthDay News) — As mpox continues to spread in Africa, Congolese authorities said Thursday that the first batch of vaccines have arrived in that country’s capital. The shipment comes three weeks after the World Health Organization declared mpox outbreaks in 12 African countries a global health emergency.Continue Reading
FRIDAY, Sept. 6, 2024 (HealthDay News) — It seems like a kind of superpower, but scientists say they’ve used a common food dye to render the skin of a mouse transparent, revealing the workings of blood vessels and organs underneath. It’s not yet clear if the procedure could work onContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Sept. 6, 2024 (HealthDay News) — As news of yet another senseless school shooting makes headlines, a new report finds the number of children who lose their lives to injury and gun violence has risen in almost all states since 2018. Rates of deaths caused by injuries overall haveContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Sept. 6, 2024 (HealthDay News) — People who live in areas with more nighttime light pollution could be at increased risk of Alzheimer’s disease, particularly those in middle age, a new study says. Nightly light pollution is more strongly linked to Alzheimer’s disease in people 65 and older thanContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Sept. 6, 2024 (HealthDay News) — An epidemic of high blood pressure is occurring in young adults and children in the United States, a pair of new studies show. Nearly a quarter of people ages 18 to 39 have high blood pressure, with readings above the healthy level ofContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Sept. 6, 2024 (HealthDay News) — People are encouraged to monitor their blood pressure at home, but many folks will find that household blood-pressure cuffs are literally a bad fit, a new study warns. For as many as 18 million U.S. adults — nearly 7% of adults — at-homeContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Sept. 6, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A distinct brain pattern appears to make some people more likely to develop depression, a new study indicates. “Deep” functional MRI brain scans revealed that a brain feature called the salience network is nearly twice as large in people with depression than inContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Sept. 6, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Saltwater nose drops can reduce the length of a kid’s cold by two days, a new study demonstrates. “We found that children using saltwater nose drops had cold symptoms for an average of six days, where those with usual care had symptoms forContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Sept. 6, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Gene therapy may restore vision to children and adults robbed of their sight by a rare inherited condition called Leber congenital amaurosis, researchers report. The illness is caused by mutations in the GUCY2D gene, which is critical to producing proteins that enable vision.Continue Reading