FRIDAY, Nov. 29, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Less than half of Americans realize that they’re increasing their risk of cancer with every beer, cocktail or shot of whiskey. Despite public health warnings about the links between drinking and cancer risk, this widespread lack of awareness is the key takeaway fromContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Nov. 29, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A child from a poorer neighborhood is more prone to severe illness once they develop multiple sclerosis (MS) compared to children growing up in more affluent areas, new research shows. The study of 138 MS patients who’d been diagnosed before the age ofContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Nov. 28, 2024 (HealthDay News) — People whose partners have HIV must remember to take antiretroviral pills every single day or risk infection themselves. But researchers have come up with a way to avoid that daily hassle – an injectable drug that patients would only have to receive twiceContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Nov. 28, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Certain hormone replacement therapy pills appear to increase the risk of heart disease and serious blood clots in women going through menopause, a new study says. Estrogen/progestin pills increased women’s risk of heart disease by 21% and risk of life-threatening blood clots byContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Nov. 28, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Don’t let your surgeon toss your old heart pacemaker out with the trash. Used pacemakers can be refurbished, researchers report, providing the potential for more people overseas to get the lifesaving devices. “Unlike in the United States, pacemaker therapy is often not availableContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Nov. 28, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Geoffrey Pointing says its hard to describe the distress of an asthma or COPD flare-up. “Honestly, when you’re having a flare up, it’s very difficult to tell anybody how you feel – you can hardly breathe,” Pointing, 77, of Banbury, England, said inContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 27, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Ultraprocessed foods have been linked to a myriad of health issues, and a new study suggests that the autoimmune skin disease psoriasis might be added to that list. “Results of this study showed an association between high ultraprocessed food intake and active psoriasisContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 27, 2024 (HealthDay News) — President-elect Donald Trump has tapped Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a Stanford health economist and critic of pandemic lockdowns and vaccine mandates, to lead the nation’s largest medical research agency, the National Institutes of Health. In a statement late Tuesday, Trump said Bhattacharya will workContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 27, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Folks with irregular sleep patterns might have an increased risk of a heart attack or stroke, a new study says. People who doze off and wake up at extremely varied times day by day have a 26% increased risk of a potentially fatalContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 27, 2024 (HealthDay News) — The blood-brain barrier is a natural membrane that protects your brain from toxins and germs. Unfortunately, this barrier also hampers the delivery of important medicines and therapies into the brain. But researchers now think they’ve figured out a way to get drugs pastContinue Reading