TUESDAY, May 13, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Could loneliness occur for some older folks because they can’t hear well enough to maintain essential social connections? Hearing aids appear to be an effective method of countering an epidemic of loneliness among U.S. seniors, a new study says. Seniors given hearing aidsContinue Reading
SATURDAY, May 10, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Any parent who has been jolted awake by the squeals of a toddler with an ear infection knows that relief won’t be swift — or sure. Kids often build resistance to the usual days-long antibiotic treatment regimen so the painful infections can comeContinue Reading
MONDAY, May 5, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Men are much more likely than women to die early from the world’s 20 leading health problems, a new global study shows. Sickness and death was higher in men than women in 2021 for 13 of the top 20 causes of injury andContinue Reading
TUESDAY, April 29, 2025 (HealthDay News) — If you spend hours a day glued to your phone or seated at a desk, you’re setting yourself up for serious neck pain, a recent study warns. Researchers in China looked at data from 25 studies involving more than 43,000 people across 13Continue Reading
SUNDAY, April 27, 2025 (HealthDay News) — One moment, Dr. Cornelius Sullivan was standing over a patient during surgery. The next, he woke up in an ambulance on the way to the emergency room. The anesthesiologist had hit his head on a monitor that had been moved behind him atContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, April 23, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Depression and anxiety have been increasing steadily among children and teenagers in recent years, a new study says. More than 1 in 10 children (10.6%) suffered from anxiety in 2022, up from 7.1% in 2016, researchers reported April 21 in JAMA Pediatrics. DuringContinue Reading
THURSDAY, April 10, 2025 (HealthDay News) — An older person’s hearing might be a harbinger of heart health, a new study says. People who experience hearing loss are more likely to develop heart failure, researchers reported April 8 in the journal Heart. What’s more, heart failure risk increases as hearingContinue Reading
TUESDAY, April 8, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Severe and possibly deadly strep infections are on the rise in the U.S., a study published Monday in Journal of the American Medical Association said. The rate of invasive group A strep infections more than doubled from 2013 to 2022, jumping from aboutContinue Reading
THURSDAY, April 3, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Strokes caused by an artery tear are landing five times as many Americans in the hospital these days, a new study says. Cervical artery dissection involves a small tear in the inner lining of an artery in the neck that supplies blood toContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, April 2, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Insomnia and vertigo are health conditions so well-known that movies have been named after them. But only a quarter of Americans know about a condition that occurs even more often than vertigo or insomnia, called dysphagia, a new study says. Dysphagia is aContinue Reading