FRIDAY, March 22, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Catherine, Princess of Wales, announced Friday that she has been diagnosed with cancer and has begun chemotherapy treatments. The news, which she disclosed in a video released by Kensington Palace, came after days of speculation about her health. It follows the disclosure inContinue Reading
FRIDAY, March 22, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Medicare will now cover the popular weight-loss drug Wegovy if patients using it also have heart disease, U.S. officials announced Thursday. The move comes after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved drugmaker Novo Nordisk’s application to add cardiovascular benefits to the medicine’s label earlierContinue Reading
FRIDAY, March 22, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A surgical treatment used to treat conditions like carpal tunnel syndrome and back sciatica might also help relieve the pain of patients with diabetic neuropathy, a new study finds. Surgical nerve decompression significantly eased pain among a small group of people with diabeticContinue Reading
FRIDAY, March 22, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Some people diagnosed with schizophrenia might instead be suffering from a rare visual condition that can cause other people’s faces to appear “demonic,” a new study argues. The condition, called prosopometamorphopsia (PMO), can cause others’ facial features to appear horrific — drooped, larger,Continue Reading
FRIDAY, March 22, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Working stiffs in the United States are dying at higher rates than those in other wealthy nations, a new study finds. Death rates among working-age Americans are 2.5 times higher than the average of other high-income countries, researchers report in the March 21Continue Reading
FRIDAY, March 22, 2024 (HealthDay News) — The weight room is becoming an increasingly dangerous place for folks trying to get into shape, a new study discovers. Head and facial injuries related to weightlifting have increased sharply during the past decade for both men and women, researchers found. Between 2013Continue Reading
FRIDAY, March 22, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Many teens – especially girls – are affected by body dysmorphic disorder, a condition in which they become obsessed with perceived flaws in their personal appearance, a new study shows. BDD affects about two in every 100 teens (1.9%), according to a reportContinue Reading
FRIDAY, March 22, 2024 (HealthDay News) — If you’re in your 60s, 70s or even older, you might think your days of productively pumping iron are behind you. That’s just not true, said Dr. Adil Ahmed, an assistant professor in the Joseph Barnhart Department of Orthopedic Surgery at Baylor College ofContinue Reading
FRIDAY, March 22, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Cuddly, friendly, fun: Your pet brings so much to your life, but experts warn that, in rare cases, they can also bring illness. The health benefits of pet ownership are many, noted Dr. Stacey Rose, an associate professor of infectious diseases and internalContinue Reading
THURSDAY, March 21, 2024 (HealthDay news) — For the first time ever, doctors have transplanted a genetically edited pig kidney into a human suffering from advanced kidney failure. Such pig kidneys, altered to lower the risk of rejection and disease, have been successfully placed into monkeys and brain-dead human donorContinue Reading