TUESDAY, Jan. 9, 2024 (HealthDay News) — HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is a lifeline for Americans, many of them gay men, who are at high risk of contracting the virus that causes AIDS. But a case that is winding its way through the court system might push the cost ofContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Jan. 9, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Teens who are active are doing their bones a lasting favor, Japanese researchers report. “Physical exercise in adolescence affects BMD [bone mineral density] more than 50 years later in older adults,” said lead researcher Dr. Yoshifumi Tamura, a faculty member at Juntendo UniversityContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Jan. 9, 2024 (HealthDay News) — An average of 22 U.S. teens die each week from drug overdoses, a death toll driven by the powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl, a new study reports. Researchers also have identified 19 “hotspot” counties where fatal ODs are occurring as much as double theContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Jan.9, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Patients with the most common form of pancreatic cancer could benefit from an experimental therapeutic vaccine, a small new clinical trial shows. The vaccine, called ELI-002 for now, is targeted to what are known as KRAS-mutated solid tumors. Over 90% of pancreatic tumors haveContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Jan. 9, 2024 (HealthDay News) — “School spirit” appears to provide long-lasting mental health benefits for Black teens, new research finds. School connectedness – the degree to which students feel like part of to their school community – is a protective factor against depression and aggressive behavior later inContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Jan. 9, 2024 (HealthDay News) — It’s an approach that’s becoming more widespread: Receiving hospital-level care in the home. A new study finds that folks “hospitalized” at home tend to do at least as well as if they’d been checked into a hospital for medical care. Patients getting hospital-levelContinue Reading
MONDAY, Jan. 8, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Folks quenching their thirst with bottled water can expect to chug down hundreds of thousands of minute plastic particles with their refreshing H2O, a new study reports. On average, a liter of bottled water contains some 240,000 detectible plastic fragments – 10 toContinue Reading
MONDAY, Jan. 8, 2024 (HealthDay News) — There’s information emerging on how the common Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) might be crucial to triggering multiple sclerosis (MS). The virus, which also causes “mono” (mononucleosis) and other illnesses, has gained prominence in recent years as a potential cause of MS. Over 95% ofContinue Reading
MONDAY, Jan. 8, 2024 (HealthDay News) — With donations falling to the lowest levels in 20 years, the American Red Cross declared a national blood shortage on Sunday. “One of the most distressing situations for a doctor is to have a hospital full of patients and an empty refrigerator withoutContinue Reading
MONDAY, Jan. 8, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Exposing babies and toddlers to TV and other digital media could be linked to a heightened risk for dysfunction in what’s known as “sensory processing,” a new study warns. Kids with “atypical sensory processing” are often hypersensitive to the touch, sound, taste orContinue Reading