THURSDAY, July 20, 2023 (HealthDay News) — About 795,000 Americans die or are permanently disabled every year due to misdiagnosed medical conditions. A new analysis led by experts at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore looks more closely at diagnostic error and its impact. “Prior work has generally focused on errorsContinue Reading
THURSDAY, July 20, 2023 (HealthDay News) — It’s rare for someone with HIV to go into remission and be considered “cured,” but a European man may be the sixth to do so. First diagnosed with HIV in 1990, the man had been taking antiretroviral drugs since 2005 and received aContinue Reading
THURSDAY, July 20, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Researchers around the world are working to tease out the mechanisms behind Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia. Now, a new study points to so-called systemic inflammation. British researchers found that inflammation — activation of the body’s innate immune system — isContinue Reading
THURSDAY, July 20, 2023 (HealthDay News) — The need to increase racial diversity among U.S. health care providers is important for many reasons. Among them, Black patients are more likely to believe Black physicians or patients than sources who are white, new research finds. The race of the presenter inContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, July 19, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Chronic constipation may not only be an indicator of gut health, but a potential warning sign of thinking declines, a preliminary study suggests. Researchers found that among more than 110,000 middle-aged and older U.S. adults, those who were chronically constipated — fewer thanContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, July 19, 2023 (HealthDay News) — In the world of COVID-19 infections, the majority of patients develop symptoms, while about one-fifth mysteriously don’t develop a cough, sore throat or other tell-tale signs of illness. Now, new research finds that these symptom-free super-dodgers are more than twice as likely asContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, July 19, 2023 (American Heart Association News) — After a night of partying, 29-year-old Bethany Moeddel felt nauseous and had a headache. A hangover, she figured. She couldn’t sleep it off, though, because it was a big day. Her boyfriend’s younger brother was receiving his first communion. Moeddel madeContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, July 19, 2023 (American Heart Association News) — Hmong American adults who have a stroke tend to be much younger than their white counterparts and may be more likely to have a less common type that causes bleeding in the brain, a new study suggests. The research, published WednesdayContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, July 19, 2023 (HealthDay News) — A definitive diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease now requires a series of complicated and expensive imaging scans that look for abnormal protein plaques and tangles in the brain. But in the near future, detecting signs of Alzheimer’s could be as simple as taking aContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, July 19, 2023 (HealthDay News) — The United States now has had eight reported cases of malaria, seven of them in Florida, state health officials reported Tuesday. Considered a public health emergency, these cases are the first in two decades to be acquired within this country’s borders, not reportedContinue Reading