WEDNESDAY, July 30, 2025 (HealthDay News) — If you’ve had a heart attack or are in heart failure, doctors often prescribe cardiac rehabilitation to strengthen your heart. A new study contends that these programs are also appropriate for folks with the common irregular heartbeat known as atrial fibrillation (A-Fib), and mayContinue Reading
MONDAY, May 19, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted full approval to Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine, but only for certain people. The vaccine is now approved for adults ages 65 and older, or for people ages 12 to 64 who have at least oneContinue Reading
FRIDAY, April 25, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Doctors can accurately predict a person’s risk of fatty liver disease as early as 16 years before symptoms develop, a new study says. A blood test looking for five specific proteins can predict metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), more commonly known asContinue Reading
FRIDAY, March 28, 2025 (HealthDay News) — As a measles outbreak spreads across the United States, doctors are now seeing a new and unexpected danger: Children getting sick from taking too much vitamin A. At Covenant Children’s Hospital in Lubbock, Texas, several unvaccinated children showed signs of liver problems afterContinue Reading
MONDAY, Sept. 16, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Fatty liver disease linked to diabetes and obesity can easily progress to liver cirrhosis, but new research suggests that GLP-1 medicines like Ozempic can help stop that. In a new decades-long study, veterans with diabetes and what’s known as metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liverContinue Reading
FRIDAY, June 7, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Anthrax disease in humans is rare and when it does occur, it’s usually during hot, dry summers. That’s why the case of a Texas rancher who developed anthrax in January of this year piqued the interest of investigators at the U.S. Centers forContinue Reading
TUESDAY, June 4, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Kids who spend more than six hours a day on their duffs have a greater risk of severe fatty liver disease and liver cirrhosis by the time they’re young adults, a new study claims. Children have 15% higher odds of fatty liver diseaseContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Feb. 15, 2024 (HealthDay News) — The harms of smoking are many, but new research delivers evidence of another troubling type of damage: Lighting up alters your immune system, leaving you more vulnerable to disease and infections even years after quitting. “Stop smoking as soon as possible,” study co-authorContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Sept. 28, 2023 (HealthDay News) – An advisory panel to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday voted resoundingly against recommending a stem cell-based experimental treatment for ALS. Although the FDA isn’t bound by the votes of its advisory panels, agency scientists have already penned a scathing reviewContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 20, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Brown rats found and analyzed near Atlanta now carry rat lungworm, researchers report. It’s a parasite that can trigger a dangerous brain encephalitis in both people and pets, and which now threatens a wide area of the U.S. Southeast. Researchers in Georgia sayContinue Reading