FRIDAY, Dec. 6, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Faced with rising cases of bird flu virus being detected in raw milk in California, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on Friday announced it would mandate testing for the virus in milk nationwide. The National Milk Testing Strategy (NMTS) “builds on measuresContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Dec. 5, 2024 (HealthDay News) — After facing weeks of pushback, health insurer Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield said Thursday it will not go ahead with a policy change that would have limited reimbursements for anesthesia during medical procedures. If the proposed policy had taken effect, it would haveContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Dec. 6, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Americans are falling farther behind the rest of the developed world when it comes to health and life expectancy, a new study shows. Life expectancy in the United States is expected to increase to 79.9 years in 2035 and 80.4 years by 2050,Continue Reading
FRIDAY, Dec. 6, 2024 (HealthDay News) — There’s new hope for people battling advanced bladder cancer who do not respond to first-line therapy, researchers report. An experimental new drug with the unwieldy name of cretostimogene grenadenorepvec spurred complete remission of the cancer in three-quarters of patients who hadn’t responded toContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Dec. 6, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Colon cancer is increasing at an alarming rate among young adults, but a new study says better eating habits could turn that trend around. About 20% of diagnosed colon cancers occur in people aged 54 and younger, nearly double the rate seen threeContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Dec. 6, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Stroke survivors have an 80% increased risk of dementia compared to people who’ve never suffered a stroke, a new study finds. About 19% of people who’d had a stroke developed dementia during an average six-year follow-up, compared with just 13% of those withContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Dec. 6, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Eating lots of ultra-processed foods appears linked to a buildup of fat in the thighs, which in turn raises a person’s odds for arthritis in the knees, new research shows. “In an adult population at risk for but without knee or hip osteoarthritis,Continue Reading
THURSDAY, Dec. 5, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Deaths from fentanyl-linked drug overdoses have begun to decline in the United States, but the crisis is far from over and those numbers could easily rise again, a new government report shows. About 70% of fatal drug overdoses recorded in 2023 involved fentanyl,Continue Reading
THURSDAY, Dec. 5, 2024 (HealthDay News) — The advent of GLP-1 weight-loss medications such as Wegovy and Zepbound has spurred debate as to whether the drugs’ cost should be covered by Medicare, Medicaid and private insurers. Late last month, the Biden administration proposed that the drugs be covered by MedicareContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Dec. 5, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Hockey players’ chances of developing concussion-related brain injury increase with every year they spend on the ice, a new study finds. The odds of having chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) increase among hockey players 34% for each year played, researchers reported Dec. 4 inContinue Reading