WEDNESDAY, March 13, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Nurses who specialize in anesthesia have issued new guidelines to reduce the risk that patients taking weight-loss drugs like Ozempic or Wegovy throw up during surgery. “These medications have exploded in popularity,” said Micah Walden, of the American Association of Nurse Anesthesiology (AANA) PracticeContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, March 13, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Researchers are zeroing in on the reasons why women who battle depression may be more likely than men to develop heart disease. A study published March 12 in the journal JACC: Asia underscores the need to tailor prevention and management strategies according toContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, March 13, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Baseball season is near, and one orthopedic surgeon is warning young players and their coaches and parents about the very real danger of overuse injuries. Dr. Mark Cohen is a hand, wrist and elbow surgeon at Midwest Orthopaedics at RUSH, in Chicago. He’sContinue Reading
TUESDAY, March 12, 2024 (HealthDay News) — They’re cheap, easy to buy and now new research shows they have become the buzz of choice for American teens. Delta-8-THC products, which include gummies and vapes, are legal in 22 states and Washington, D.C. There is no federal minimum age requirement forContinue Reading
TUESDAY, March 12, 2024 (HealthDay News) — People diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) show a marked decline in their two-year risk for death once they start taking medication, new research shows. That was particularly true for deaths due to accidents and drug overdose. People taking ADHD drugs also showedContinue Reading
TUESDAY, March 12, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Be sure to check your fridge for any Johnsonville turkey kielbasa sausage — over 35,000 pounds of the product is under recall due to some customers finding “pieces of rubber” in the packaged meat. Denmark, Wisc.-based Salm Partners, which makes the sausage, saidContinue Reading
TUESDAY, March 12, 2024 (HealthDay News) — The Trump administration’s attacks on scientists didn’t shake Americans’ confidence in science, a new analysis shows. “The proportion of Americans with a low level of trust in scientific expertise rose from 3% in 2016 to 13% in 2020,” said lead author Jon Miller,Continue Reading
TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 2024 (HealthDay News) — As the number of measles cases at a migrant shelter in Chicago climbed to four on Monday, a team from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has headed to that city to help contain the outbreak. The Chicago Department of PublicContinue Reading
TUESDAY, March 12, 2024 (HealthDay News) — When states let gun owners carry a firearm openly without a permit, death rates soar. Significantly more people died by firearms and suicides in states that have relaxed open carry laws, a nine-year study of death data from all 50 states shows. “OurContinue Reading
TUESDAY, March 12, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Actress Christina Applegate, who has been battling multiple sclerosis (MS) since 2021, shared her struggles with the debilitating disease on Monday. “I live kind of in hell. I’m not out a lot, so this is a little difficult, just for my system. ButContinue Reading