THURSDAY, May 16, 2024 (HealthDay News) — For anyone newly diagnosed with blood cancers known as lymphomas, their first question might be: What treatments can help? Of course, there have been big advances in chemotherapy against the disease, but treatments now go beyond chemo, said Mayo Clinic expert Dr. StephenContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, May 15, 2024 (HealthDay News) — The relentless rise in deaths from drug overdose in the United States may finally have stalled: New data from 2023 show the first decline in such deaths since 2018. “Statistics indicate there were an estimated 107,543 drug overdose deaths in the United StatesContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, May 15, 2024 (HealthDay News) — The H5N1 avian flu virus has been discovered in a small number of wild birds in New York City. The highly infectious and severe virus was detected in fecal samples in six New York City birds representing four different species, according to aContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, May 15, 2024 (HealthDay News) — U.S. cancer death rates are continuing to drop, falling by 33% between 1991 and 2020. However, not all Americans are reaping the benefits from advances in cancer prevention, early detection and treatment, a new report from the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)Continue Reading
WEDNESDAY, May 15, 2024 (HealthDay News) — In a small pilot study, some young women looking to lose weight on a low-calorie keto diet got an unexpected benefit: Their acne began to clear up. “These findings represent an opportunity to control a skin disease that affects most teenagers and manyContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, May 15, 2024 (HealthDay News) — People who regularly ride bikes throughout their life are less likely to develop knee arthritis, a new study suggests. Bicyclists are 17% less likely to have knee pain and 21% less likely to have symptoms of knee arthritis, compared to people who’ve neverContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, May 15, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Heading for surgery? The ratio of women to men in the operating room could influence your recovery, new research shows. Hospitals in Canada that had 35% or more surgeons and anesthesiologists who were female on staff tended to produce better outcomes for patientsContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, May 15, 2024 (HealthDay News) — An experimental gene therapy could one day provide a first-ever cure for genital and oral herpes, researchers report. The gene therapy removed 90% or more of oral herpes infection in lab mice, and it also suppressed how much virus an infected animal shed,Continue Reading
WEDNESDAY, May 15, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A competitive game with a potential cash reward appeared to help overweight British men lose weight, researchers report. The incentive was winning the “Game of Stones” — a stone is a British measurement of body weight equal to 14 pounds — and pocketingContinue Reading
TUESDAY, May 14, 2024 (HealthDay News) — High temperatures across the Northern Hemisphere last summer were scorching and frequent enough to make it the hottest summer in two millennia, new research shows. Weather records based on scientific instruments only goes back as far as 1850, noted researchers at Cambridge UniversityContinue Reading