FRIDAY, April 5, 2024 (HealthDay News) — People with Long COVID might be able to exercise to improve their health, something that up to now has been discouraged, a new study suggests. “The World Health Organization [WHO] and other major bodies have said that people with post-COVID should avoid intenseContinue Reading
FRIDAY, April 5, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Suicides among U.S. college athletes have doubled over the past two years, according to data from the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). Suicide is now the second most common cause of death for college athletes after accidents, results show. “Athletes are generally thoughtContinue Reading
FRIDAY, April 5, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Overuse of marijuana is increasingly being linked to dangerous bouts of psychosis, and a new study finds that antipsychotics may be needed to keep such patients out of the hospital. Psychotic episodes involve a dangerous psychiatric state in which people lose their connectionContinue Reading
FRIDAY, April 5, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A test to gauge if it’s safe to prescribe a patient an addictive opioid may have been approved too soon by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, claims a letter sent to the agency by a group of experts. The test, called AvertD,Continue Reading
THURSDAY, April 4, 2024 (HealthDayNews) — Following disappointing trial results, the maker of a controversial ALS drug said it is pulling the medication off the market. In a statement issued Thursday, Amylyx Pharmaceuticals said that Relyvrio failed to help patients in a large follow-up study, and the drug “will noContinue Reading
THURSDAY, April 4, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Could a medication similar to the blockbuster weight-loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy slow the ravages of Parkinson’s disease? A new, small study suggests it could: Over the course of a year, a group of French researchers followed 156 people with early Parkinson’s whoContinue Reading
THURSDAY, April 4, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Rick Slayman, the first person to receive a kidney transplant from a genetically modified pig, headed home Wednesday after faring so well that he was released from the hospital just two weeks after his groundbreaking surgery. “This moment — leaving the hospital todayContinue Reading
THURSDAY, April 4, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Cancer cases will continue to climb for the next two decades, spurred on by an aging worldwide population, a new report shows. An estimated 20 million new cancer cases were diagnosed in 2022, and 9.7 million died from cancer around the globe, theContinue Reading
THURSDAY, March 4, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Sticky fingers, runny noses: Little kids are sweet, but they can also pass on dangerous germs to loving grandparents, new research confirms. The study found that contact with pre-school and kindergarten-aged kids may be the leading transmission route for bacteria that can causeContinue Reading
THURSDAY, April 4, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A good night’s sleep is often hampered by caffeine, hunger, alcohol or chronic pain. Now, America has a new cause of poor sleep: the sound of gunfire on city streets. New research shows that gunshots are twice as likely to occur at night,Continue Reading