THURSDAY, Dec. 21, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Kids with emotional problems or ADHD can find the holidays a very challenging time, as all the routines that provide a sense of order are jumbled in a whirl of activities. The kids are home from school and restless, their parents are haulingContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Dec. 21, 2023 (HealthDay News) — A new treatment appears to reduce food allergies in children and teens, according to interim clinical trial results. A lab-made monoclonal antibody called omalizumab (Xolair) significantly increased the amounts of common foods that children could eat without sparking an allergic reaction, the U.S.Continue Reading
THURSDAY, Dec. 21, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Kids are home for the holidays, but the wonders of the season can pose problems for children with asthma. Sources of joy like Christmas trees, a Yule log burning or Grandma’s pet dog can all be unexpected asthma triggers, warns the American LungContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 20, 2023 (HealthDay News) — What’s even more nerve-wracking than paying taxes? The holidays, according to a majority of Americans, who say it takes them weeks to recover from seasonal stress. “The holidays are an easy time to justify putting off healthy habits, but it’s important to manageContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 20, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress are common among people caring for the victim of a recent stroke, a new study has found. Nearly 30% of caregivers of severe stroke patients experience stress and emotional problems during the first year after the patient leavesContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 20, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Beyond a myriad of other consequences, childhood trauma appears to raise the specter of chronic pain in adulthood, new research shows. Researchers pored over 75 years’ worth of data involving more than 826,000 people. That included information on levels of neglect or physical,Continue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 20, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Long left to the fringes of the recreational drug culture, psilocybin — the hallucinatory ingredient in “magic mushrooms” — has recently been making inroads as a legitimate (and fast-acting) antidepressant. Research published Dec. 18 in Cancer shows its benefits may extend to peopleContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 20, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Many patients with advanced colon cancers who are successfully treated with immunotherapy and then stop those treatments appear to face little risk of tumor progression two years later. That’s the main finding from a study that tracked outcomes for 64 people treated forContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 20, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Exposure to a common chemical group found in many household products may delay or even prevent a woman from becoming pregnant, a new study says. Phthalates can lower a woman’s odds of becoming pregnant by up to 18% in any given month, researchersContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 20, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Early research in mice could be getting closer to the roots of what causes Parkinson’s disease. A “pathological” form of a common brain protein, alpha-synuclein, could play a role in the death of dopamine-rich brain cells, according to a team at Johns HopkinsContinue Reading