MONDAY, Oct. 4, 2021 (HealthDay News) — There’s some encouraging news for people who develop lung cancer even though they’ve never smoked. Precision drugs already approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration can be used to treat 78% to 92% of their tumors, a new study reports. These precisionContinue Reading
MONDAY, Oct. 4, 2021 (HealthDay News) – There has been a significant increase in COVID-related deaths in nursing homes as the highly contagious Delta spreads across the country, a new analysis shows. “While the vast majority of COVID-19 deaths happened outside of nursing homes in July and August, the highContinue Reading
MONDAY, Oct. 4, 2021 (HealthDay News) — The size and shape of the blood vessels in your brain may help predict your risk of an often-fatal type of stroke, called an aneurysm, a new study finds. An aneurysm is a bulge in an artery wall. “A subarachnoid hemorrhage is theContinue Reading
SATURDAY, Oct. 2, 2021 (HealthDay News) — If you work from home and can’t sleep, it may be your circadian rhythms are out of sync, a new study suggests. In short, your sleep-wake cycle may be out of whack, according to Randy Nelson, director of the West Virginia University CenterContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Oct. 1, 2021 (HealthDay News) — A small fix might make reading a bit easier for kids with dyslexia, as well as their classmates: Increasing the amount of space between printed letters. That’s the finding of a small study that tested the effects of “extra-large” letter spacing on schoolContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Oct. 1, 2021 (American Heart Association News) — As TV reporter Mike Lowe ran the Lifetime Chicago Triathlon in August, he heard shouts of, “Do it for Erin!” Lowe was running in honor of his colleague, Erin Ivory, who used to compete in several triathlons and half Ironman eventsContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Oct. 1, 2021 (HealthDay News) — One-quarter of U.S. parents report that their child has had to quarantine because of possible COVID-19 exposure since school started, a new poll finds. The nationally representative survey of 1,519 people conducted between Sept. 13 and Sept. 22 included 414 people who identifiedContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Oct. 1, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co. said Friday that it will seek federal approval for emergency use of its new antiviral pill molnupiravir, after a clinical trial showed the drug halved the risk of hospitalization or death when given to high-risk people shortly afterContinue Reading
Merck to seek emergency approval for its new COVID antiviral pill: In a trial of the drug molnupiravir, the risk of hospitalization and death was halved when given to high-risk patients within five days of infection. Read more Has the pandemic made the opioid epidemic worse? In interviews with HealthDayContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Oct. 1, 2021 (HealthDay News) — It turns out that the pandemic has reaped one unexpected benefit: As teens were kept home more often, their use of electronic cigarettes dropped by nearly 40%, a new report finds. U.S. health officials said these numbers should be taken with a grainContinue Reading