TUESDAY, July 23, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Folks with depression who got therapy via text or voice messages fared just as well as those who got weekly video-based telemedicine sessions with a therapist, a new trial has found. The findings “suggest that psychotherapy delivered via text messages may be aContinue Reading
TUESDAY, July 23, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Middle-aged folks don’t necessarily fare better than seniors following urgent surgery to unclog arteries and restore blood flow to their legs, a new study warns. Adults in their 50s with peripheral artery disease (PAD) appear more likely to require a leg amputation withinContinue Reading
TUESDAY, July 23, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Consistently bad sleep is linked to a person’s risk of developing type 2 diabetes, a new study shows. Both too little and too much sleep is tied to diabetes risk, and swinging wildly between the two patterns of poor sleep reflects the mostContinue Reading
TUESDAY, July 23, 2024 (HealthDay News) — City dwellers are less likely to be healthy, happy and well-off than people living outside urban areas, a new study reports. Instead, there’s a suburban “Goldilocks zone” between cities and rural areas where people are happiest, researchers report. “Areas near cities but beyondContinue Reading
TUESDAY, July 23, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A single drop of blood might be able to predict the onset of dozens of diseases, a new study claims. Analysis of the protein “signatures” in a droplet of blood can predict 67 diseases, including blood cancers, degenerative nerve diseases, lung disease andContinue Reading
TUESDAY, July 23, 2024 (HealthDay News) — How many drugs in your bathroom medicine cabinet have expired? Now imagine you have no way of refilling them, because you’re millions of miles from home. That’s the dilemma that will face astronauts on a Mars mission, a new study warns. More thanContinue Reading
MONDAY, July 22, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Two more cases of bird flu have been reported in Colorado poultry workers, but reassuring research finds the virus doesn’t seem to be fueling silent infections, U.S. health officials report. The two additional H5N1 avian flu infections bring the total in that stateContinue Reading
MONDAY, July 22, 2024 (HealthDay News) — At least 28 people have been hospitalized and two have died in a multi-state outbreak of listeria linked to deli meat, U.S. health officials warned. In an investigation notice posted Friday, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the true number ofContinue Reading
MONDAY, July 22, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Medical debt is significantly more common among people with a mood disorder, and these money woes can keep them from getting the help they need, a new study says. Among people with depression or anxiety, those with medical debt were twice as likelyContinue Reading
MONDAY, July 22, 2024 (HealthDay News) — In her youth, Shola, an English Shepherd Dog, was a member of the Edale Mountain Rescue Team, a corps of U.K. pooches charged with helping hurt and stranded hikers. But Shola was retired as part of the Rescue Team after a rare geneticContinue Reading