FRIDAY, Aug. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) — State and local health officials have detected the poliovirus in New York City’s wastewater, a finding that indicates the virus has spread widely since first being discovered in the wastewater of a neighboring county last month. The New York State Department of HealthContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Aug. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Preparing your taxes is a purely mental activity, but one that leaves many exhausted by the end of the effort. The same goes for reading a dense report, picking apart reams of spreadsheet data, or writing a fact-laden paper. That feeling of exhaustionContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Aug. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) — The Inflation Reduction Act is expected to bring out-of-pocket drug costs down for many U.S. seniors, but most of its benefits aren’t immediate. Under the law, Medicare will now be allowed to negotiate the cost of some drugs. That should eventually bring downContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Aug. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Reading, doing yoga and spending time with family and friends might help lower your risk of dementia, a new study suggests. “Previous studies have shown that leisure activities were associated with various health benefits, such as a lower cancer risk, a reduction ofContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Aug. 12, 2022 (American Heart Association News) — At 21, Chris O’Connell learned his pediatric cardiologist had retired. He was assigned a new doctor for the annual checkups he’d had all his life. “I know you’ve been told to not exercise hard or strain your heart, but that’s theContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Aug. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Inflatable bounce houses are big, colorful, cheap to rent and practically scream “childhood fun.” So, what could possibly go wrong? It turns out plenty. For one thing, the air-filled party staples are vulnerable to being blown aloft and even flipped over if leftContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Aug. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) – The popular diabetes drug Januvia may contain traces of a probable carcinogen, but patients should keep using the medication because it could be dangerous to stop taking it, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced this week. Despite the discovery that Nitroso-STG-19 (NTTP)Continue Reading
FRIDAY, Aug. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) — People who test at home after being exposed to COVID-19 should take the test three, not two, times to make sure they’re not infected, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Thursday. In issuing its new safety communication, the agency said the latestContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Aug. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) — More than a quarter of kids hospitalized with COVID-19 or a complication called multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C) continue to have health problems more than two months later, a new study finds. A follow-up of COVID cases from 25 hospitals found that 27% ofContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Aug. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Some adults who sign up for Medicaid also bring their unenrolled but eligible kids into the system, a new study reports. For every nine adults who gained access to Medicaid in Oregon due to a special enrollment lottery, one previously eligible child wasContinue Reading