MONDAY, Nov. 11, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Thousands of Americans with heart trouble have small implanted defibrillators, to help regulate their heartbeat and keep cardiac events at bay.  But new research finds that on extremely hot days, people with the devices face nearly triple the odds for a dangerous arrhythmiaContinue Reading

THURSDAY, Nov. 7, 2024 (HealthDay News) — More than a year after its advisory panel unanimously declared the drug phenylephrine to be useless against nasal congestion, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is proposing that it be removed from common over-the-counter decongestants. Products that include phenylephrine as an active ingredientContinue Reading

TUESDAY, Oct. 29, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Researchers looking at the sweltering European summer of 2022 estimated that more than half of the heat-linked deaths occurring on the continent would not have happened if human-led climate change wasn’t in place. “Without strong action, record temperatures and heat-related mortality will continueContinue Reading