TUESDAY, Sept. 10, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Brain changes that signal Alzheimer’s disease even before symptoms appear are linked to an increased vulnerability to financial scams, new research shows. “Assessing financial vulnerability in older adults could help identify those who are in the early stages of mild cognitive impairment orContinue Reading
MONDAY, Sept. 9 , 2024 (HealthDay News) — Catherine, Princess of Wales, has announced that she has completed chemotherapy for an unnamed form of cancer. The princess, 42, made the announcement in a video message posted by Kensington Palace on Monday. She said she plans to return to light dutiesContinue Reading
MONDAY, Sept. 9, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Beginning Jan. 1, Americans with private health insurance coverage should gain better access to mental health care, as well as care to help ease substance abuse, federal officials announced Monday. “Like medical care, mental health care is vital to the well-being of America’sContinue Reading
Key Takeaways A man who received the world’s first combined whole-eye and partial face transplant is doing well His body has not rejected either his new face of his new left eye However, vision has not returned in the donated eye MONDAY, Sept. 9, 2024 (HealthDay News) — The recipientContinue Reading
MONDAY, Sept. 9, 2024 (HealthDay News) — At least 65 people in nine states have been sickened in a salmonella outbreak linked to recalled eggs, U.S. health officials report. “The nine states include the three states where the eggs were sold — Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin — in addition toContinue Reading
MONDAY, Sept. 9 , 2024 (HealthDay News) — A case of bird flu has been confirmed in a Missouri resident who had no known contact with dairy cows, poultry or wild birds, U.S. health officials report. “The patient, who was hospitalized, had underlying medical conditions, was treated with influenza antiviralContinue Reading
MONDAY, Sept. 9, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Folks who like to stay up late are nearly 50% more likely to develop type 2 diabetes than those who go to bed earlier, a new study finds. However, it’s not just because they have an unhealthy lifestyle, according to findings presented SundayContinue Reading
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MONDAY, Sept. 9, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Losing weight can help a person with obesity — especially those with diabetes — fend off serious infections, new data shows. It’s an important finding, since “up to one in three hospitalizations in people with diabetes are for infections and people with diabetesContinue Reading
MONDAY, Sept. 9, 2024 (HealthDay News) — The time is now to prepare for a potential pandemic involving the H5N1 bird flu, says a group of international vaccine and public health experts. Avian influenza vaccines need to developed, stockpiled and even delivered to people at highest risk of contracting theContinue Reading
MONDAY, Sept. 9, 2024 (HealthDay News) — In exercise bike tests, twentysomethings who’d been vaping for at least two years had much lower exercise capacity than those who didn’t, and the losses were equal to those of folks who’d spent a similar amount of time smoking. The vaping young adultsContinue Reading