WEDNESDAY, June 19, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Only a third of outpatient mental health facilities offer medications essential for treating opioid addiction, a new study finds. Standard care for treating people with opioid use disorder involves drugs like buprenorphine, methadone and naltrexone, which help suppress cravings and blunt the effectsContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, June 19, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A new AI-driven blood test could improve detection of liver cancer, which is one of the most fatal cancers because early diagnosis is difficult. The test looks for “fusion genes” — two different genes that have become bound together, producing proteins that canContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, June 19, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A new smartphone tool could help paramedics identify a stroke in seconds by scanning the patient’s face. The AI-driven tool analyzes facial symmetry and specific muscle movements to detect subtle signs of stroke, researchers explained. “One of the key parameters that affects peopleContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, June 19, 2024 (HealthDay News) — As summers get hotter and hurricane seasons less predictable, more Americans now say that climate change affects their mental health, a new poll finds. In a survey conducted among more than 2,200 adults at the end of May, 53% of respondents said theyContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, June 19, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Most seniors who survive a drug overdose often miss out on treatments that could help save them from a subsequent OD, a new study shows. Almost 24,000 Medicaid beneficiaries died from a follow-up overdose out of 137,000 who survived an OD in 2020,Continue Reading
WEDNESDAY, June 19, 2024 (HealthDay News) — The discovery that the Epstein-Barr virus might be a major driver of multiple sclerosis has re-energized research into the autoimmune disease. Now, investigators in the U.K. and Sweden believe they might be closer to understanding how the virus, which also causes mononucleosis, mightContinue Reading
TUESDAY, June 18, 2024 (HealthDay News) — As marijuana use becomes legal and more accepted across America, more seniors are developing unhealthy relationships with the drug, a new report suggests. A look at data on almost 56 million Medicare beneficiaries finds “rates of health care encounters with cannabis-related disorders increasedContinue Reading
TUESDAY, June 18, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A new blood test might be able to predict Parkinson’s disease up to seven years before symptoms of the movement disorder surface, researchers said. The test correctly predicted a high risk of Parkinson’s in 16 patients who went on to develop the disease,Continue Reading
TUESDAY, June 18, 2024 (HealthDay News) — The average American diet has only improved modestly over the past two decades, despite tons of research tying unhealthy food to obesity, type 2 diabetes and heart disease, a new study finds. The percentage of U.S. adults with a poor diet decreased fromContinue Reading
TUESDAY, June 18, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Patients are less likely to fill prescriptions for the overdose-reversing drug naloxone when they have to shell out more at the pharmacy, a new study finds. Naloxone (also known by the brand name Narcan) is a critical lifesaving tool in preventing deaths fromContinue Reading