WEDNESDAY, Nov. 29, 2023 (Healthday News) — Your neck muscles could be giving you headaches, claims new German research that used special MRI scans to spot the connection. “Our imaging approach provides [the] first objective evidence for the very frequent involvement of the neck muscles in primary headaches, such asContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Nov. 28, 2023 (Healthday News) — The prevalence of a highly mutated COVID variant has tripled in the past two weeks, new government data shows. Now, nearly 1 in 10 new COVID cases are fueled by the BA.2.86 variant, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Monday. The variantContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Nov. 28, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Stem cells injected into the brains of multiple sclerosis patients appear to protect them against further damage from the degenerative disease, a new study shows. MS occurs when the body’s own immune system attacks and damages the protective sheath around nerve fibers, calledContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Nov. 28, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Personal trainers can help people increase their strength and their fitness. Could a “brain coach” be just as useful in preventing Alzheimer’s’ disease? A new study suggests that personalized health and lifestyle changes can delay or even prevent memory loss for older adultsContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Nov. 28, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Folks who smoke weed along with cigarettes are doing serious damage to their lungs, a new study warns. People who do both are 12 times more likely to develop emphysema than nonsmokers, due to the damage they’re doing to the lung’s air sacs,Continue Reading
TUESDAY, Nov. 28, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Evidence that soccer heading — where players use their heads to strike a ball — is dangerous continues to mount. Research to be presented at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) annual meeting in Chicago on Tuesday points to a measurable declineContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Nov. 28, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Medical imaging for thinking and memory issues happens much later in Black patients than in their white and Hispanic counterparts, new research shows. A study to be presented Thursday at a meeting of radiologists also revealed that Black patients were less often testedContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Nov. 28, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Transgender people transitioning to male (transmasculine) identity typically take testosterone therapy as part of the process. There have been worries that the treatment might spur erythrocytosis, an abnormally high concentration of red blood cells in blood that could prove dangerous. But newContinue Reading
MONDAY, Nov. 27, 2023 (Healthday News) — Three more brands of cantaloupe have been recalled by U.S. health officials after salmonella infections linked to the fruit more than doubled in just a week. The case count now includes nearly 100 people in 32 states, with Arizona, Missouri, Minnesota, Wisconsin andContinue Reading
MONDAY, Nov. 27, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Repeated COVID-19 outbreaks in nursing homes have had a stark and lasting impact on vulnerable older residents, a new study reports. Long COVID has left many residents of these facilities relying more and more on staff to help them months later with basic,Continue Reading