TUESDAY, March 5, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A new smartphone app can help doctors more accurately diagnose ear infections in babies and small children, potentially reducing unnecessary antibiotic use in kids, researchers report. Ear infections — known by doctors as acute otitis media (AOM) — can be difficult to diagnose,Continue Reading
FRIDAY, March 1, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Vaping and skipped meals appear to be the main causes of frequent headaches among teens, a new study says. Teens who ate breakfast and dinner with their family had a lower risk of frequent headaches than those who regularly missed meals, researchers reportContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 28, 2024 (HealthDay News) — What if you’d been treated for years for a condition, only to find out that you’d long ago been misdiagnosed? That’s what’s happening to a sizable number of Americans who are taking allergy meds (to little effect) when in fact they have chronicContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Feb. 27, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Stuffy, sneezing, miserable: folks plagued by chronic sinusitis know the feeling all too well. Experts at University of Cincinnati Health say it’s also an all-too-common affliction, affecting an estimated 14.6% of Americans. What is chronic sinusitis? The sinuses are air-filled spaces in theContinue Reading
MONDAY, Feb. 26, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Many younger children could be permanently damaging their hearing by blasting loud music on their earbuds and headphones, a new report finds. Two in three parents say that their child between the ages of 5 and 12 regularly pop listening devices in theirContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Feb. 13, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Preventing noise-related hearing loss from a loud concert, a banging jackhammer or a rifle blast could be as simple as managing levels of zinc within the inner ear, a new study reports. Such hearing loss stems from cellular damage associated with an excessContinue Reading
MONDAY, Feb. 5, 2024 (HealthDay News) — If you’re over 65, you likely struggle sometimes to hear conversations clearly, but ignoring that may prompt even more serious health problems, experts say. If left unchecked, hearing loss can lead to social isolation and depression — two conditions known to raise dementiaContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Jan. 26, 2024 (HealthDay News) — It’s long been thought that it takes more time for a woman to recover from a concussion than a man. But a new national study of U.S. college athletes refutes that notion, finding that women and men recover from sports-related head injuries atContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Jan. 25, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Folks think of big city life as an ear-blasting festival of noise — taxi horns honking, jackhammers pounding, police sirens wailing and jet planes roaring overhead. But rural residents actually have a higher rate of hearing loss in both ears than city dwellersContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Jan. 25, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Five of six Chinese children born deaf due to a rare genetic defect now have the ability to hear, thanks to an experimental gene therapy. The therapy involved a hollowed-out virus loaded with a healthy version of the gene responsible for producing otoferlin,Continue Reading