MONDAY, Oct. 14, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Binge drinking at a party or club could feel great when the music’s beating, but it’s your heart beat that might pay the price. Researchers in Germany found that 1 in every 20 young Munich revelers developed “clinically relevant arrhythmias” as they gotContinue Reading
MONDAY, Oct. 14, 2024 (HealthDay News) — About 6.5 million “Near Dual” seniors are struggling to afford long-term care as they grow older and more frail, a new study warns. “Near Dual” seniors are those who are eligible for Medicare but are only at the cusp of eligibility for Medicaid,Continue Reading
MONDAY, Oct. 14, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Bilingual people have more active and flexible brains, a new study has discovered. Brain scans revealed that folks who speak two languages have increased connectivity between their brain regions, researchers reported Oct. 10 in the journal Communications Biology. This connectivity is strongest inContinue Reading
SATURDAY, Oct. 12, 2024 (HealthDay News) — You’ve broken a hip and rehabilitation is part of the way back to mobility, or your partner has suffered a stroke and needs help re-learning certain skills. These scenarios play out every day for Americans, and rehabilitation therapies are often needed. But whatContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Oct. 11, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Endometriosis could be linked to the health of a woman’s microbiome, a new study says. The discovery might help lead to an early test for the painful condition, and possible new treatments. A specific set of bacteria in women’s gut microbiome appear toContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Oct. 11, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Facing a nationwide shortage of vital IV fluids after Hurricane Helene knocked out a North Carolina production plant, officials heaved a sigh of relief at the news that a second plant in Daytona Beach, Fla., was spared by Hurricane Milton and remains functional.Continue Reading
FRIDAY, Oct. 11, 2024 (HealthDay News) — This year, breakdancing joined the ranks of Olympic-caliber sports, with Japan’s B-girl Ami Yuasa and Canada’s B-boy Phil Wizard taking home the gold. Now doctors warn breakdancing shares something else with other major sports – the risk of serious overuse injury. Specifically, breakersContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Oct. 11, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Hucksters offering bogus stem cell treatments can be deterred through government action, a new study says. About 60% of direct-to-consumer advertising from fly-by-night stem cell clinics ceased after regulators in Canada and Australia intervened, researchers noted in the journal Cell Stem Cell. “TheContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Oct. 11, 2024 (HealthDay News) — The key to weight loss could come down to a combination of 14 “skinny genes,” a recent study says. People with these genes dropped twice as much weight through regular exercise compared to those without the genes, researchers found. Those with the mostContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Oct. 11, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Oklahoma meat processor BrucePac is recalling close to 10 million pounds of ready-to-eat meat and poultry that may have been contaminated with the Listeria bacterium. In an announcement updated this week by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS), the meatContinue Reading