FRIDAY, April 5, 2024 (HealthDay News) — As the world’s population ages, a new report warns that the number of people with cancer could climb 77% by 2050. In the report, published Thursday in the journal CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, researchers from the American Cancer Society found there wereContinue Reading
FRIDAY, April 5, 2024 (HealthDay News) — People preparing to watch Monday’s total eclipse of the sun need to protect their vision during the event, eye doctors say. Powerful ultraviolet rays can do permanent damage to the eyes if people look directly at the sun as the moon is slidingContinue Reading
FRIDAY, April 5, 2024 (HealthDay News) — America is making headway against heart disease, with heart-related deaths declining over the past three decades. But it appears that only the well-to-do have benefitted, a new study shows. Heart attack rates have stayed the same or gotten worse among the poor duringContinue Reading
FRIDAY, April 5, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Obese folks are less likely to benefit from a nerve-stimulation treatment for sleep apnea that’s recently been made available to them, a new study reports. The treatment is likely to be 75% less effective among obese people with BMIs of 32 to 35,Continue Reading
FRIDAY, April 5, 2024 (HealthDay News) — People with Long COVID might be able to exercise to improve their health, something that up to now has been discouraged, a new study suggests. “The World Health Organization [WHO] and other major bodies have said that people with post-COVID should avoid intenseContinue Reading
FRIDAY, April 5, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Suicides among U.S. college athletes have doubled over the past two years, according to data from the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Suicide is now the second most common cause of death for college athletes after accidents, results show. “Athletes are generally thoughtContinue Reading
FRIDAY, April 5, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Overuse of marijuana is increasingly being linked to dangerous bouts of psychosis, and a new study finds that antipsychotics may be needed to keep such patients out of the hospital. Psychotic episodes involve a dangerous psychiatric state in which people lose their connectionContinue Reading
FRIDAY, April 5, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A test to gauge if it’s safe to prescribe a patient an addictive opioid may have been approved too soon by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, claims a letter sent to the agency by a group of experts. The test, called AvertD,Continue Reading
THURSDAY, April 4, 2024 (HealthDayNews) — Following disappointing trial results, the maker of a controversial ALS drug said it is pulling the medication off the market. In a statement issued Thursday, Amylyx Pharmaceuticals said that Relyvrio failed to help patients in a large follow-up study, and the drug “will noContinue Reading
THURSDAY, April 4, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Could a medication similar to the blockbuster weight-loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy slow the ravages of Parkinson’s disease? A new, small study suggests it could: Over the course of a year, a group of French researchers followed 156 people with early Parkinson’s whoContinue Reading