FRIDAY, April 19, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Managing a stroke victim’s blood sugar levels after they receive powerful clot-busting drugs might help them survive their health crisis, a new trial finds. People with high blood sugar levels were more likely to suffer a potentially deadly brain bleed after clot-busters reopenedContinue Reading
FRIDAY, April 19, 2024 (HealthDay News) — An immune-compromised man with a year-and-a-half-long COVID infection served as a breeding ground for dozens of coronavirus mutations, a new study discovered. Worse, several of the mutations were in the COVID spike protein, indicating that the virus had attempted to evolve around currentContinue Reading
FRIDAY, April 19, 2024 (HealthDay News) — An early marker of multiple sclerosis could help doctors figure out who will eventually fall prey to the degenerative nerve disease, a new study says. In one in 10 cases of MS, the body begins producing a distinctive set of antibodies in theContinue Reading
THURSDAY, April 18, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Fresh organic basil tainted with salmonella and sold by Trader Joe’s in 29 states has sickened at least 12 people, according to an alert issued Wednesday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. One person was so ill that hospitalization wasContinue Reading
THURSDAY, April 18, 2024 (HealthDay News) — As climate change threatens another long hot summer for Americans, new data shows last summer’s record-breaking temperatures sent a rising number of people to emergency departments. At special risk of heatstroke and other heat-related issues: Working-age Americans, who often found themselves far fromContinue Reading
THURSDAY, April 18, 2024 (HealthDay News) — When prostate cancer strikes, one question is paramount: Is it aggressive and requiring immediate treatment, or slow-growing and worthy of monitoring only? Right now, an invasive biopsy is the only way to answer that query, but researchers say they’ve developed a urine testContinue Reading
THURSDAY, April 18, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Deep-seated racial and ethnic disparities persist in health care across the United States, even in states considered the most progressive, a new report shows. For example, California received a score of 45 for the care its health system provides Hispanic Americans. The CommonwealthContinue Reading
THURSDAY, April 18, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Teenagers are frequently bullied about their weight on social media, and the bullying increases with each hour they spend on these sites, a new study reveals. Nearly one in five teens (17%) said they’d experienced weight-related bullying online, according to results published AprilContinue Reading
THURSDAY, April 18, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Jobs that challenge your mind could help your brain age more gracefully, a new study suggests. The harder your brain works on the job, the less likely you are to have memory and thinking problems later in life, researchers reported April 17 inContinue Reading
THURSDAY, April 18, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A newly developed at-home urine test could potentially help doctors catch head and neck cancers earlier, a new study suggests. The test looks for tiny DNA fragments sloughed off by tumor cells, which pass from the bloodstream into urine through the kidneys, researchersContinue Reading