WEDNESDAY, May 25, 2022 (American Heart Association News) — Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, FBI data shows that people of Asian descent increasingly have been targets of racially motivated attacks. “Hate crimes have spilled over to affect the community in dramatic ways. People feel scapegoated and blamed forContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, May 25, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Many COVID-19 patients who didn’t wind up in the hospital continue to battle lingering health issues more than a year later, a new study finds. These long-haulers continue to suffer neurologic symptoms, fatigue and a compromised quality of life long after their initialContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, May 25, 2022 (HealthDay News) — It’s tempting to binge-watch TV shows, and it might be hard to get off the couch after just one or two episodes. But it could be worth it. Researchers calculated that if people committed to watching just under an hour of TV aContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, May 25, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Beginning June 4, Abbott Nutrition will restart producing baby formula at a shuttered factory that’s been central to the ongoing shortage of infant formula in the United States, the company announced on Tuesday. The factory in Sturgis, Mich., has been closed since FebruaryContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, May 25, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Up until recently monkeypox infection outside of Africa was rare, but a look back at seven cases occurring in Britain over the past few years gives hints at what drugs work to fight the disease — and which don’t. The need to betterContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, May 25, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Children raised by same-sex parents are just as well-adjusted as kids raised by different-sex parents, researchers say. In the new study, the researchers compared 62 Dutch children (aged 6 to 16 years) whose parents were the same sex with 72 kids whose parentsContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, May 25, 2022 (HealthDay News) — A year after being hospitalized with COVID-19, more than 12% of patients had been diagnosed with heart inflammation, according to a new study of the long-term effects of the virus. For the study, researchers in Scotland followed 159 patients hospitalized with COVID-19 betweenContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, May 25, 2022 (HealthDay News) — If you use pot, you may need more sedation than normal during a gastric endoscopy, according to a new study. “Patients didn’t have increased awareness or discomfort during procedures, but they did require more drugs,” lead author Dr. Yasmin Nasser said in aContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, May 25, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Doctors need to be aware that prostate cancer raises a man’s risk of serious and potentially deadly blood clots by about 50%, researchers say. All cancer patients are at increased risk for venous thromboembolism (VTE), a dangerous but treatable blood clot in theContinue Reading
TUESDAY, May 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Race and ethnicity matter when battling colon cancer, with young white patients facing notably better odds than Black, Hispanic or Asian patients, new research warns. A look at colon cancer survival among Americans younger than 50 turned up a glaring discrepancy: Survival fiveContinue Reading