MONDAY, Oct. 3, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Swedish scientist Svante Paabo received the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday. The 67-year-old researcher made important discoveries about human evolution and the immune system while comparing modern humans and early hominins. After developing new techniques, Paabo and his team made it possibleContinue Reading
MONDAY, Oct.3 2022 (HealthDay News) — Larry Griner resigned from his job in California and moved back to his childhood home in Baltimore nearly five years ago so he could care for his mother, Norma. She had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease almost 12 years earlier, which took away herContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Sept. 30, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Wearing a fitness tracker may help you get more steps in — even if you never give it a glance. A new study found that folks who wore a pedometer averaged 318 more steps a day than those who didn’t, even without specificContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Sept. 29, 2022 (HealthDay News) — A new technology dubbed the “bionic pancreas” may beat standard treatment in helping people with type 1 diabetes control their blood sugar levels, a clinical trial has found. Among adults and children with type 1 diabetes, those who used the bionic pancreas forContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Sept. 29, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Regular home monitoring can help with blood pressure control, but only half of people who have hypertension or other related conditions actually do it, a new study found. Of Americans ages 50 to 80 who take blood pressure medications or have a healthContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Sept. 29, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Folks having surgery have lots of things to worry about as they go under the knife, but the gender of their surgeon isn’t one of them, a new study finds. There’s no difference in rates of death or complications between male and femaleContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 28, 2022 (HealthDay) — Japanese drugmaker Eisai on Wednesday said its experimental drug lecanemab helped slow thinking declines among people in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease. The findings from a phase 3 clinical trial have yet to be peer-reviewed in any medical journal. But according to aContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Sept. 27, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Adults with hearing loss soon will be able to amble into a big box store or pharmacy — or just visit a website — and buy hearing aids without a prescription. Over-the-counter hearing aids will be on the market by mid-October, available forContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Sept. 27, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Staring at a computer screen endlessly can lead to dry, irritated, tired eyes and headaches. But there’s a quick fix. Just look away from the screen every 20 minutes. Do this for at least 20 seconds, and look about 20 feet in theContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 21, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Too few children with sickle cell anemia are getting the recommended screening tests for stroke, a common complication of this disease, a new government report finds. What’s more, many aren’t receiving hydroxyurea, a medication that can reduce the complications associated with the bloodContinue Reading