MONDAY, Feb. 1, 2021 (HealthDay News) — For some patients suffering from knee arthritis, a special procedure may reduce the need for a total knee replacement, Canadian researchers say. By getting what is known as a ‘high tibial osteotomy,’ younger patients with less severe joint damage who are physically activeContinue Reading
MONDAY, Feb. 1, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Many Americans with heart disease are avoiding medical care during the pandemic, a new survey finds. Only 52% of Americans sought medical care for a concerning health problem during the pandemic, according to the survey conducted by the Cleveland Clinic. Among patients withContinue Reading
MONDAY, Feb. 1, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Previous exposure to other coronaviruses may enhance a person’s immune response to COVID-19 infection, but new research suggests that antibodies triggered by the SARS outbreak of 2003 provide only limited protection against the new coronavirus. Antibodies are blood proteins made by the immuneContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Jan. 29, 2021 (HealthDay News) — The new coronavirus is mutating in an attempt to elude vaccines and treatments, putting a greater onus on Americans to get vaccinated and use social distancing measures to avoid infection, U.S. health officials said Friday. New COVID-19 variants out of South Africa andContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Jan. 29, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Heart surgery can be stressful, but researchers may have found a way to reduce patients’ anxiety and postoperative pain — without any extra side effects. A team from the Netherlands found that the simple act of listening to music around the time ofContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Jan. 28, 2021 (HealthDay News) — An experimental gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy shows promise, a small study suggests. The severe form of muscular dystrophy — which affects about one in 3,500 males born each year in the United States — causes muscles to progressively weaken and loseContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Jan. 28, 2021 (HealthDay News) — A racist mortgage appraisal practice used in the United States decades ago has resulted in less green space in some urban neighborhoods today, researchers say. Those so-called “redlined” neighborhoods have higher rates of air and noise pollution, racial segregation and poverty — allContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 27, 2021 (HealthDay News) — To the ever-growing list of COVID-19’s collateral damage, add one more casualty: cancer research. A new study indicates that during the first wave of the pandemic last spring, the number of newly launched cancer treatment studies cratered by 60%. “In short, the firstContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 27, 2021 (HealthDay News) — While most people know about mononucleosis, the dreaded “kissing” disease that knocks down teenagers and young adults, many don’t know there is a link between “mono” and chronic fatigue syndrome. Now, new research that followed college students who didn’t have mono yet (thoughContinue Reading
MONDAY, Jan. 25, 2021 (HealthDay News) — Electronic ‘early warning systems’ for kidney damage in hospital patients don’t improve outcomes, researchers say. These systems are meant to alert for acute kidney injury (AKI). AKI, a sudden decrease in the kidney’s filtration function, occurs in 15% of hospital patients and increasesContinue Reading