THURSDAY, May 26, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Researchers may finally have definitive proof of what’s caused recent outbreaks of a rare polio-like illness in U.S. children: a respiratory virus that is usually harmless. The condition, called acute flaccid myelitis (AFM), attacks tissue in the spinal cord, causing muscles and reflexesContinue Reading
THURSDAY, May 26, 2022 (HealthDay News) – At least some American parents and caregivers needing formula for their infants will be able to find it on store shelves as soon as this weekend. About 60 tons of formula arrived at Dulles International Airport in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, as partContinue Reading
THURSDAY, May 26, 2022 (HealthDay News) — A landmark clinical trial finds that a hoped-for treatment for early-stage breast cancer isn’t the answer in most cases. The international trial tested the inexpensive diabetes medication metformin and found that it did not stop or prevent the spread of the most commonContinue Reading
THURSDAY, May 26, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Teens who have access to guns are at a higher risk for suicide or suicide attempts, new research shows. Compounding the situation, about one-third of all U.S. adolescents coming to the emergency department for any reason have moderate or severe depressive symptoms, suggestingContinue Reading
THURSDAY, May 26, 2022 (HealthDay News) — While vitamin D may have other benefits, preventing type 2 diabetes in high-risk adults does not appear to be one of them. A new Japanese trial found no significant difference among study participants who used a vitamin supplement and those who took aContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, May 25, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Vaccinated people who experience a breakthrough case of COVID-19 are at risk for developing long-haul symptoms, though they are better protected against some of the worst ones, new data show. Compared to the unvaccinated, people who had COVID shots had a 15% lowerContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, May 25, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Even with Roe v. Wade still the law of the land, primary care doctors in the United States have difficulty prescribing U.S. federally approved abortion pills, a new study finds. Getting in the way is a complex combination of state and federal regulations,Continue Reading
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