THURSDAY, Oct. 31, 2024 (HealthDay News) — When a black cat named Pepper dropped a dead mouse on the carpet at his owner’s feet on a day back in May 2021, neither of them knew then that it would alert scientists to the arrival of an exotic virus to theContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Oct. 31, 2024 (HealthDay News) — The COVID-19 pandemic appears to have created a nation of homebodies in the United States, a new study finds. People are spending nearly an hour less each day doing activities outside the home, researchers reported Oct. 31 in the Journal of the AmericanContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Oct. 31, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A person battling multiple sclerosis spent an average of $750 in out-of-pocket fees on medicines in 2012, but by 2021 that same patient spent $2,378 annually, a new report finds. Out-of-pocket costs for drugs for neurologic diseases such as MS, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’sContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Oct. 31, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Whooping cough is on the rise in the United States, with cases surging across the nation. It’s important to remember that whooping cough, also known as pertussis, can impact adults as well as kids, according to Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) PresidentContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Oct. 31, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Sugar overload is a real danger on Halloween, as piles of candy prove a powerful temptation to both Trick-or-Treaters and the folks handing out the goodies. Too many sweet treats can instigate a blood sugar spike followed by a hard crash, causing folksContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Oct. 31, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Don’t automatically throw out that old COVID-19 at-home test you just came across in your medicine cabinet. It might still be good, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Some over-the-counter COVID tests have had their expiration dates extended beyond the dateContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Oct. 31, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Scans using lasers and ultrasound can pick up signs of a malaria infection through the skin, without the need for a blood draw, Yale researchers report. The technology, called Cytophone, could be a real boon for developing countries where access to labs forContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Oct. 31, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Onions spread on McDonald’s Quarter Pounders are the definite source of an outbreak of E. coli illness that’s now affected 90 people nationwide, new evidence from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows. “Epidemiologic and traceback information show that fresh, sliveredContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 30, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Big surges in new autism diagnoses among young adults, as well a rise in diagnoses for girls and young women, have driven a near-tripling of U.S. autism cases in just over a decade, researchers report. Data on over 12 million patients enrolled inContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 30, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A lack of health insurance coverage raises the risk that cancers among Black and Hispanic Americans will be caught too late, a new study suggests. Being uninsured accounts for a significant proportion of racial and ethnic disparities in cancers that are only detectedContinue Reading