FDA Approves Qfitlia to Cut Bleeding Episodes in Patients With Hemophilia
2025-04-02
Subcutaneous injection cuts the amount of the protein antithrombin, leading to an increase in thrombinContinue Reading
Shingles Vaccine Protects Against Dementia
2025-04-02
TUESDAY, April 2, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The shingles vaccine can do more than protect seniors from painful, blistering rashes. It also appears to protect older folks from dementia, researchers say. Seniors who got the shingles vaccine when it became available in the U.K. were 20% less likely to developContinue Reading
FDA Removes Top Expert on Vaping and Tobacco
2025-04-02
WEDNESDAY, April 2, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) top tobacco regulator, Brian King, has been placed on leave as part of a large wave of cuts across federal health agencies. King, who led the FDA’s tobacco control efforts, told his staff Tuesday that heContinue Reading
Zepbound Now Available Through Hims & Hers
2025-04-02
WEDNESDAY, April 2, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The telehealth company Hims & Hers Health is expanding its weight-loss offerings by adding new medications to its platform. The company said Tuesday it now provides access to Zepbound, a brand-name version of the drug tirzepatide, as well as to generic liraglutide. ZepboundContinue Reading
More Americans Can’t Afford Health Care, Prescriptions
2025-04-02
WEDNESDAY, April 2, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The inability to pay for health care has reached a new high in the United States, a new study says. More than one-third of Americans — an estimated 91 million people — say they couldn’t afford to access quality health care if theyContinue Reading
Swallowing Disorder Not Widely Known, Understood By Public
2025-04-02
WEDNESDAY, April 2, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Insomnia and vertigo are health conditions so well-known that movies have been named after them. But only a quarter of Americans know about a condition that occurs even more often than vertigo or insomnia, called dysphagia, a new study says. Dysphagia is aContinue Reading
Drug Overdose Deaths Rising Faster in Black Americans, Study Finds
2025-04-02
WEDNESDAY, April 2, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Black Americans have been dying from drug overdoses (OD) at higher rates than white Americans, a new study says. Both Black men and women are at greater risk of a fatal OD compared to white people, researchers reported April 1 in JAMA NetworkContinue Reading
Eye Exam Can Assess Risk Of Delirium Following Surgery
2025-04-02
WEDNESDAY, April 2, 2025 (HealthDay News) — They say the eyes are the windows to the soul. The eyes also might help detect seniors at risk for a common syndrome in which they emerge from surgery in a state of delirium, new research suggests. Seniors who have thicker retinas areContinue Reading
Low ‘Bad’ Cholesterol Might Protect Against Dementia, Alzheimer’s
2025-04-02
WEDNESDAY, April 2, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Lower levels of “bad” LDL cholesterol could mean a lower risk of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, a new study says. People with low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol levels lower than 70 mg/dl had a 26% lower risk of dementia and 28% lower risk ofContinue Reading
FDA Approves First At-Home Test to Diagnose Three STIs in Women
2025-04-01
The Visby Medical Women’s Sexual Health Test received marketing authorization to diagnose chlamydia, gonorrhea, and trichomoniasis in womenContinue Reading