SATURDAY, Sept. 13, 2025 (HealthDay News) — On World Sepsis Day, health experts remind Americans that sepsis strikes 1.7 million people in the U.S. each year and causes more than 350,000 deaths. Yet despite those staggering numbers, many Americans don’t know what sepsis is or how to recognize it beforeContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Sept. 12, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A new type of noninvasive brain stimulation may help people with moderate to severe depression feel better faster than standard treatments, researchers in a new report say. The method, called high-definition transcranial direct current stimulation (HD-tDCS), uses small electrodes on the scalp toContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Sept. 12, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Destroying the Amazon rainforest doesn’t just threaten the environment, it may also make people sick. A study published Sept. 11 in the journal Communications Earth & Environment found that rates of certain diseases were lower in regions where forests were protected and managedContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Sept. 12, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A common nutrient found in leafy greens and corn may do more than protect eyesight. New research shows that zeaxanthin, a plant-derived carotenoid, can strengthen the body’s cancer-fighting immune cells and make immunotherapy more effective. The study, recently published in the journal CellContinue Reading
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FRIDAY, Sept. 12, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A “keto” diet might help people with depression, a small-scale pilot study suggests. Depression symptoms decreased by about 70% among a small group of college students who followed a ketogenic diet for at least 10 weeks, researchers reported in the journal Translational Psychiatry.Continue Reading
FRIDAY, Sept. 12, 2025 (HealthDay News) — County jail inmates who receive medication to treat their opioid addiction have a lower risk of overdose after their release, a new study reports. They’re also significantly more likely to continue their addiction treatment, researchers reported Sept. 10 in The New England JournalContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Sept. 12, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A new blood test can potentially detect head and neck cancers caused by human papilloma virus (HPV) up to 10 years before symptoms appear, a new study says. The test, called HPV-DeepSeek, detects microscopic fragments of HPV DNA that have broken off fromContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Sept. 12, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Same-day cataract surgery on both eyes can be safe, effective and practical, according to a pair of new studies. Cataract surgery typically is performed on one eye then the other, with procedures scheduled weeks or months apart. But getting surgery done on bothContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Sept. 12, 2025 (HealthDay News) — RSV can make even healthy, full-term babies sick enough to land in the hospital or require intensive care, a new study says. In fact, more than half of RSV-infected infants and children who required intensive care or prolonged hospitalization were born at termContinue Reading
First and only drug releasing system is indicated for patients with BCG-unresponsive non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer seeking bladder preservationContinue Reading