TUESDAY, Jan. 30, 2024 (HealthDay News) — The first new kind of pain medication in over two decades could be on the horizon for patients, with promising results announced Tuesday from a company trial. For now, the drug from Vertex Pharmaceuticals is called VX-548. But in trials of patients undergoingContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Jan. 30, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A surge in breast cancers for women younger than 50 has puzzled medical experts, but a new study provides some new information that could help halt this trend. The steady increase in diagnoses during the past two decades has largely been driven byContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Jan. 30, 2024 (HealthDay News) — The maker of a drug used to treat ADHD and narcolepsy has recalled one lot of the medication after a pill mixup was discovered. The recall notice, issued by Azurity Pharmaceuticals Inc., states that one lot of Zenzedi 30-milligram tablets is being recalled afterContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Jan. 30, 2024 (HealthDay News) — New research is helping confirm smoking as a risk factor for the devastating brain illness amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). ALS affects roughly 31,000 Americans each year, with about 5,000 new cases diagnosed annually, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Continue Reading
TUESDAY, Jan. 30, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Deaths related to ozone air pollution will rise significantly around the world during the next two decades due to climate change, a new study warns. Cities in North America, Europe, Asia, Australia and Africa can expect to see ozone-related deaths increase by asContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Jan. 30, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A white winter landscape might look magical, but the cold and snow and ice can make even the simplest of tasks potentially dangerous. “It’s slip and fall season,” said Dr. Letitia Bradford, an orthopedic surgeon who practices in rural communities in New MexicoContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Jan. 30, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Opdivo, one of the new generation of immunotherapy cancer treatments, appears to help kidney cancer patients equally well when given as a quick injection versus the current method of intravenous delivery, a new study finds. The results of the new trial using injectedContinue Reading
MONDAY, Jan. 29, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Following a recall of millions of its breathing machines that began in mid-2021, Philips Respironics announced Monday that it would halt sales of all such machines within the United States. The machines include continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) devices used by people withContinue Reading
MONDAY, Jan. 29, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Britain’s King Charles III returned home on Monday after a planned prostate surgery, the same day his daughter-in-law Kate Middleton, the Princess of Wales, was also discharged following an undisclosed abdominal surgery. Both had been treated at the London Clinic private hospital. TheContinue Reading
MONDAY, Jan. 29, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Five of eight British children who received human growth hormone from the pituitary glands of deceased donors went on to develop early-onset Alzheimer’s disease many decades later, researchers report. Researchers at University College London (UCL) suspect that the growth hormone received by theseContinue Reading