By:
On:
In: Asthma, Doctors and Health Care, Fitness & Exercise, Head & Neck, Sleep Disorders, Vitamins / Drugs

TUESDAY, June 1, 2021 (HealthDay News) — COVID survivors can relax when it comes to vaccination: A new study shows that getting immunized will not worsen any symptoms that linger long after infection, such as breathing difficulties, fatigue and insomnia. The encouraging takeaway is based on a small analysis thatContinue Reading

By:
On:
In: Doctors and Health Care, Infectious Disease, Public Health

THURSDAY, May 27, 2021 (HealthDay News) — A third antibody treatment designed to keep high-risk COVID-19 patients from winding up in the hospital was approved for emergency use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday. Importantly, in lab tests the newly authorized drug, dubbed sotrovimab, neutralized the highlyContinue Reading

By:
On:
In: Doctors and Health Care, General Health, Health & Technology, Health Insurance

THURSDAY, May 27, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Patients facing relatively simple outpatient surgeries are nonetheless being told to undergo a number of preoperative tests that just aren’t necessary, a new study reports. More than half of a group of patients facing low-risk outpatient surgery received one or more tests —Continue Reading

By:
On:
In: Asthma, Doctors and Health Care, Fitness & Exercise, Infectious Disease

WEDNESDAY, May 26, 2021 (HealthDay News) — If you land in the hospital with a COVID-19 infection, there’s a good chance you’ll still be suffering symptoms months later, researchers report. A wide swath of lingering health issues plagued more than 70% of these patients, investigators found. “Early on, we completelyContinue Reading

By:
On:
In: Doctors and Health Care, Infectious Disease, Vitamins / Drugs

THURSDAY, May 20, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Virginia Terrell knew she wouldn’t be allowed visitors after she checked into the hospital with COVID-19 late last month, but being braced for that reality didn’t make her week-and-a-half stay any easier. “You get pretty lonely,” said Terrell, 59, who was treated atContinue Reading

By:
On:
In: Doctors and Health Care, General Health, Health Insurance, Public Health

TUESDAY, May 18, 2021 (HealthDay News) — U.S. hospitals have been required to make their prices public since 2019, but 18 months into the rule more than half weren’t doing it, a new study finds. In 2018, the Trump administration issued a rule requiring hospitals to publish their “chargemasters” onContinue Reading

By:
On:
In: Arthritis, Bones & Joints, Doctors and Health Care, Infectious Disease, Kids' Health, Medical Disorders

TUESDAY, May 18, 2021 (HealthDay News) — New insight into a rare and dangerous disorder that can occur in kids with COVID-19 could improve treatment of the condition, researchers say. Many children infected with SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) go undiagnosed or have no symptoms, but about one inContinue Reading

By:
On:
In: Doctors and Health Care, Fitness & Exercise, Head & Neck, Kids' Health

FRIDAY, May 14, 2021 (HealthDay News) — There’s good news and bad on rates of head injuries among America’s bike-riding public: Rates for these injuries have sharply declined among kids but barely budged among the growing number of adult bike riders. Between 2009 and 2018, increasing helmet use, construction ofContinue Reading