TUESDAY, Oct. 29, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Most kids with attention issues won’t go on to develop serious psychiatric conditions like psychosis or schizophrenia. However, a new study finds poor attention spans in childhood, plus certain genes, could play a role in raising the risk for these conditions. Of course,Continue Reading
TUESDAY, Oct. 29, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Here’s another good reason to help your child reach and maintain a healthy weight: A new study warns that kids who are either too skinny or too fat are at risk for impaired lung function. However, if their weight can be normalized beforeContinue Reading
MONDAY, Oct. 28, 2024 (HealthDay News) — The health problems of preemie babies cause untold heartache for new parents. But these families also face a strained financial future, a new study finds. About 30% of parents with a very low birth weight baby, under 3.3 pounds, have had to makeContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Oct. 29, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Repeated concussions dramatically increase a hockey player’s risk of depression and burnout, a new study warns. Hockey players who’d suffered three or more concussions had twice the risk of depression symptoms than whose who’d never had a concussion, researchers found. They also facedContinue Reading
MONDAY, Oct. 28, 2024 (HealthDay News) — McDonald’s Quarter Pounder beef patties have tested negative for E. coli contamination as an outbreak that has sickened 75 people in 13 states continues, the company announced Sunday. Federal health officials had already identified slivered onions that had been used on the burgersContinue Reading
MONDAY, Oct. 28, 2024 (HealthDay News) — The weight-loss drug Ozempic can guard against kidney disease in obese people, a new study shows. Patients taking semaglutide — the active agent in Ozempic and Wegovy — had as much as a 52% reduction in kidney damage, as measured by urine testing,Continue Reading
MONDAY, Oct. 28, 2024 (HealthDay News) — More than 20% of people in the continental United States might have drinking water contaminated with “forever chemicals,” a new study suggests. Between 75 and 95 million Americans rely on groundwater that contains detectible concentrations of these chemicals, known as PFAS (per- andContinue Reading
MONDAY, Oct. 28, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Most thyroid cancers are slow-moving and, if caught early, curable. But some patients can present with what’s known as an anaplastic thyroid carcinoma (ATC) — a rare and very aggressive tumor with a very poor prognosis. Now, a clinical trial offers new hopeContinue Reading
MONDAY, Oct. 28, 2024 (HealthDay News) — An experimental electric bandage might help doctors stop bacterial infections without using any drugs, a new study suggests. Imperceptible low-level electric current applied through a skin patch caused a nearly 10 times reduction in amounts of Staphylococcus epidermidis, a common bacterium found onContinue Reading
MONDAY, Oct. 28, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Every minute spent waiting for a first shock from a defibrillator cuts the odds of surviving cardiac arrest by 6%, a new Dutch study finds. “Our research shows that every minute of delay in giving the first shock has a major impact,” saidContinue Reading