WEDNESDAY, Aug. 28, 2024 (HealthDay News) — “Rolling stop” laws that let bicyclists treat stop signs as yield signs are not dangerous, a new study demonstrates. Both bike riders and drivers perform safely in intersections once they’ve been informed about how the law works, results from lab experiments involving bicycleContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 28, 2024 (HealthDay News) — An improved test for Lyme disease could provide accurate results within 20 minutes, researchers report. The test — which resembles an AI-guided form of the at-home COVID-19 test — would be a vast improvement over the current two-part lab test that takes upContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Aug. 27, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Eli Lilly, maker of one of the blockbuster GLP-1 weight-loss drug Zepbound, says it will now offer the medication in single-dose vials at half the price currently available to consumers. The new 2.5 milligram (mg) and 5 mg weekly dose vials differ fromContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Aug. 27, 2024 (HealthDay News) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved the expanded use of an automated insulin pump system to include those with type 2 diabetes. It’s the first such system for use by people with the more prevalent type 2 form of theContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Aug. 27, 2024 (HealthDay News) — As an mpox outbreak continues to rage in Africa, the World Health Organization on Monday launched a six-month plan to quell its spread. “The mpox outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and neighbouring countries can be controlled, and can be stopped,”Continue Reading
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TUESDAY, Aug. 27, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A child’s intelligence is not the sole key to academic success, a new British study concludes. Instead, intelligence plus “non-cognitive” factors, such as a determination to excel despite obstacles and an innate love of learning, can push a child to the top ofContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Aug. 27, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Good sleep is important for the health of overweight men and women, a new study shows. Heavy-set people who stay awake too late tend to have a higher risk of metabolic syndrome — a cluster of conditions that increase the risk of heartContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Aug. 27, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Your heart health before and after a heart attack might be influenced by how loud your neighborhood is, new research suggests. One study found that people under 50 were more prone to heart attack if they lived in a noisy area, while anotherContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Aug. 27, 2024 (HealthDay News) — People with multiple sclerosis appear to have a lower risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease, a new study suggests. MS patients are far less likely to have elevated blood levels of toxic proteins that form amyloid plaques in the brains of people with Alzheimer’s,Continue Reading
TUESDAY, Aug. 27, 2024 (HealthDay News) — New Medicare rules could make 3.6 million Americans — or even more — eligible for treatment with the pricey weight-loss drug Wegovy, a new study finds. Under the new rules, the government will pay for Wegovy treatment if a person with high BMIContinue Reading