TUESDAY, Sept. 10, 2024 (HealthDay News) — New research uncovers a possible reason why teenaged girls struggled so mightily with their mental health during the pandemic: Scans showed their brains aged far faster than expected during that stressful time, even faster than the brains of their male peers. In theContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Sept. 10, 2024 (HealthDay News) — The latest AirPods from Apple will come with built-in hearing aids, the company announced Monday. Designed as an over-the-counter hearing aid feature for those with mild to moderate hearing loss, users take hearing tests on iPhones or iPads running iOS 18, and thenContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Sept. 10, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Annoyed that you still have a bit of tummy even though you work out all the time? Exercise actually is helping you develop healthier belly fat tissue, a new study says. That means that even if you don’t obtain six-pack abs, exercise isContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Sept. 10, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Taking steroids more than doubles a person’s risk of developing type 2 diabetes, a new study warns. Patients taking steroid pills, injections or infusions are 2.6 times more likely to develop diabetes than those not on steroids, researchers reported Sunday in a presentationContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Sept. 10, 2024 (HealthDay News) — People with type 2 diabetes are nearly twice as likely to develop asthma, a new review has concluded. Type 2 diabetics are 83% more likely to develop asthma, compared to those without diabetes, researchers found. The relationship also works the other way aroundContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Sept. 10, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A flare-up in COPD can be predicted through changes in a person’s voice, a new study claims. Patients’ voices become higher-pitched, more breathy or hoarse when a flare-up is imminent, researchers found. Using those cues, researchers are working on a smartphone app thatContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Sept. 10, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Brain changes that signal Alzheimer’s disease even before symptoms appear are linked to an increased vulnerability to financial scams, new research shows. “Assessing financial vulnerability in older adults could help identify those who are in the early stages of mild cognitive impairment orContinue Reading
MONDAY, Sept. 9 , 2024 (HealthDay News) — Catherine, Princess of Wales, has announced that she has completed chemotherapy for an unnamed form of cancer. The princess, 42, made the announcement in a video message posted by Kensington Palace on Monday. She said she plans to return to light dutiesContinue Reading
MONDAY, Sept. 9, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Beginning Jan. 1, Americans with private health insurance coverage should gain better access to mental health care, as well as care to help ease substance abuse, federal officials announced Monday. “Like medical care, mental health care is vital to the well-being of America’sContinue Reading
Key Takeaways A man who received the world’s first combined whole-eye and partial face transplant is doing well His body has not rejected either his new face of his new left eye However, vision has not returned in the donated eye MONDAY, Sept. 9, 2024 (HealthDay News) — The recipientContinue Reading