FRIDAY, Feb. 23, 2024 (HealthDay News) — An open question for weight-loss drugs like Ozempic, Wegovy and Zepbound has been whether folks will keep the pounds off when they stop taking them. Regular exercise could be the key to quitting the drugs without regaining weight, a new Danish study says.Continue Reading
FRIDAY, Feb. 23, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Amid an outbreak of measles at a Florida elementary school, the state’s surgeon general has defied federal health guidance and told parents it’s up to them whether they want to keep their unvaccinated child home to avoid infection. In a letter to parentsContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Feb. 23, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Black voters support a ban on menthol cigarettes by a wide margin, refuting claims that such a ban would be strongly opposed by Black Americans, a new survey shows. Black voters support by a 37-point margin the menthol ban proposed by the U.S.Continue Reading
FRIDAY, Feb. 23, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A “universal” antivenom can block the lethal toxins in the venoms of a wide variety of poisonous snakes found in Africa, Asia and Australia, researchers report. The antibody protected mice from the normally deadly venom of snakes like black mambas and king cobras,Continue Reading
FRIDAY, Feb. 23, 2024 (HealthDay news) — Artificial intelligence can match and even outperform human eye doctors in diagnosing and treating glaucoma, a new study finds. The GPT-4 system from OpenAI did as well or better than ophthalmologists in assessing 20 different patients for glaucoma and retinal disease, researchers reportContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Feb. 23, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Toddlers who are really into their food might have a higher risk of developing an eating disorder once they enter adolescence, a new study shows. Kids ages 4 and 5 with a strong urge to eat when teased with tasty food appear moreContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Feb. 23, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Increasingly, knee replacement surgeries are requiring follow-up operations when post-op complications arise. Now, new research from the University of Texas Southwestern is illuminating whether you might fall into a high-risk category for these second surgeries. According to the researchers, the rate at whichContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Feb. 22, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Former talk show host Wendy Williams has been diagnosed with primary progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia, her representatives announced in a statement on Thursday. The conditions are the same diagnoses actor Bruce Willis received in 2022; his aphasia later progressed to frontotemporal dementia.Continue Reading
THURSDAY, Feb. 22, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Rigorous safety protocols prevented an outbreak of tuberculosis last year in lab monkeys imported to the United States from spreading to humans, a new report shows. Overall, 26 cynomolgus macaque monkeys flown in from Southeast Asia to the United States for research purposesContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Dec. 22, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Falls, frostbite, fractures: They are all potential hazards of icy winter conditions. But experts say there’s a lot you can do to avoid injury when snowflakes fall. First, stay warm. According to the New York City Department of Health, people lose the bulkContinue Reading