FRIDAY, Sept. 17, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Logging and landscaping are the most dangerous jobs in America, a new study finds. The risk of death for loggers is more than 30 times higher than for all U.S. workers. Tree care workers also encounter hazards at rates far higher than aContinue Reading
MONDAY, Sept. 13, 2021 (HealthDay News) — College athletes who suffer a concussion may take as long as a month to recover, not the two weeks considered normal, new research finds. “Normal return-to-play time was previously set at 14 days — meaning 50% of people recovered in that time,” saidContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Sept. 9, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Until now, folks suffering from hearing loss typically have had to fork out thousands of dollars for a device that could be adjusted only by a professional audiologist. No wonder that only one-quarter of the nearly 29 million U.S. adults who could benefitContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 8, 2021 (HealthDay News) — A lost or altered sense of taste, dry mouth and sores are common among COVID-19 patients and those symptoms may last long after others disappear, Brazilian researchers report. Nearly 4 in 10 COVID patients experience impaired taste or total loss of taste, butContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Aug. 27, 2021 (HealthDay News) — It can happen in an instant. A young child climbs a heavy piece of furniture, and it topples over on the toddler. New research suggests that’s not as rare as you might think: Hundreds of thousands of children have been treated in U.S.Continue Reading
THURSDAY, Aug. 19, 2021 (HealthDay News) — A new pill specifically designed to prevent migraines appears to do the job, a new clinical trial finds. Atogepant cut patients’ migraine days in half over 12 weeks of treatment, without causing serious side effects, the researchers said. Experts said the drug, ifContinue Reading
MONDAY, Aug. 9, 2021 (HealthDay News) — When your sinuses are clogged, you will try anything to ease the congestion: neti pots, bulb syringes, squeeze bottles and even battery-operated pulsed water devices. But improper use of these nasal irrigation devices can put you at risk for infection, a U.S. FoodContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 4, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Air pollution could cause sinus misery, new research suggests. Specifically, tiny particulate air pollution (known as PM2.5) could contribute to chronic rhinosinusitis, a condition in which the sinuses get infected or irritated, become swollen, are severely congested and secrete mucus into the throatContinue Reading
MONDAY, July 26, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Young soccer players have more head impacts during practices but experience more severe head impacts during games, a small, preliminary study shows. The findings could help devise ways to improve head impact safety in youth soccer, according to the researchers. “Headers are aContinue Reading
THURSDAY, July 22, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Roller coasters race up, down, over and back again at breakneck speeds, but if you are one of the millions of people who get migraines, the risks may not be worth the thrill. A new study by German researchers shows that folks whoContinue Reading