MONDAY, Feb. 10, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Choosing the right antidepressant for someone who is depressed can be hit or miss. But a new study shows that artificial intelligence (AI) technology may be able to help. Researchers input information from electrical signals in the brain into a computer program thatContinue Reading
MONDAY, Feb. 10, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Migraine drugs that might work for adults won’t prevent the debilitating headaches in kids and teens, a new study shows. A number of drugs are used to prevent migraines, but treatment of youngsters has largely been based on the results of adult studies,Continue Reading
FRIDAY, Feb. 7, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Viagra can salvage a man’s sex life, but in rare cases it may temporarily steal his sight. Researchers report that some men who took sildenafil — the generic form of the impotence drug — suffered from vision problems, including a kind of colorContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Feb. 7, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Nearly half of antibiotic prescriptions for Medicaid patients appear to be inappropriate, new research suggests. That kind of overprescribing raises risks for everyone, experts say, as bacteria gain more chances to mutate around the life-saving drugs. For the study, researchers analyzed 298 millionContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Feb. 4, 2020 (HealthDay News) — American dentists often prescribe more than the recommended supply of opioid painkillers to patients, a new study finds. Not only that, they are more likely to prescribe more powerful opioids, the researchers found. In this study, the researchers analyzed data on nearly 550,000Continue Reading
MONDAY, Feb. 3, 2020 (HealthDay News) — A mad dash is afoot to craft a vaccine for the new coronavirus that’s ravaging China and starting to spread across the globe, with possibly dozens of labs working on permanent protection against the pathogen. Researchers say an effective vaccine could be createdContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Jan. 31, 2020 (HealthDay News) — “Dabbing” cannabis concentrate is the type of marijuana experimentation most likely to lead teens into frequent and heavy use of the drug, researchers say. “We really wanted to understand whether the type of cannabis that youth experiment with influences the likelihood that theyContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Jan. 30, 2020 (HealthDay News) — After four years of declines, life expectancy in the United States increased in 2018, health officials reported Thursday. The jump in longevity comes as deaths from opioid overdoses dropped for the first time in 28 years, as did deaths from six of theContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Jan. 30, 2020 (HealthDay News) — When a child has strep throat, an antibiotic like penicillin usually has them back at school 24 hours later. But a new study warns that strains of bacteria that cause strep throat and “flesh-eating disease” appear close to becoming resistant to penicillin andContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 29, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Nearly half of all opioid doses and more than a quarter of all opioid prescriptions in the United States come from 1% of health care providers, a new study says. The authors said this suggests that efforts to reduce overuse of prescription opioidContinue Reading