TUESDAY, March 12, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Be sure to check your fridge for any Johnsonville turkey kielbasa sausage — over 35,000 pounds of the product is under recall due to some customers finding “pieces of rubber” in the packaged meat. Denmark, Wisc.-based Salm Partners, which makes the sausage, saidContinue Reading
TUESDAY, March 12, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Americans living in areas where primary care doctors and nurse practitioners are in short supply face a greater risk for emergency surgeries and complications, new research shows. They’re also more likely to wind up back in the hospital after they’ve left it. That’sContinue Reading
MONDAY, March 11, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Following disappointing trial results, the maker of a controversial ALS drug may pull the medication off the market. In a statement issued Friday, Amylyx Pharmaceuticals said that Relyvrio failed to help patients in a large follow-up study, but the company stopped just shortContinue Reading
FRIDAY, March 8, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Instead of approving the new Alzheimer’s drug donanemab this month, as was expected, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will now require the experimental medication be scrutinized more closely by an expert panel, the drug’s maker said Friday. “The FDA has informed LillyContinue Reading
FRIDAY, March 8, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Ambien, Lunesta, Sonata: Millions of bleary-eyed Americans turn to this class of so-called “Z-drugs” to get restful sleep. But how do these drugs work, and do they come with risks? Experts at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration have issued an advisory toContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, March 6, 2024 (HealthDay News) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a health advisory Wednesday warning consumers that six brands of ground cinnamon are tainted with lead. The FDA urged folks to throw away and not buy the following brands of ground cinnamon: La Fiesta, sold atContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, March 6, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Americans will not be able to order free at-home COVID tests after Friday, U.S. health officials announced Tuesday. Households across the country have been able to order four free rapid antigen tests through COVID.gov. since November. All orders placed on or before Friday will beContinue Reading
FRIDAY, March 1, 2024 (HealthDay News) — School not only makes a person smarter, but it can also help them live longer, researchers report. People with more education tend to age more slowly and live longer lives compared to the less educated, the study found. Higher levels of education areContinue Reading
FRIDAY, March 1, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A new British study suggests that the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test, long used to spot prostate cancers, might lead to overdiagnosis in Black men. Researchers now theorize that Black men may have naturally higher levels of the antigen in their blood than whiteContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Feb. 29, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Air travel can be miserable for people with disabilities, particularly if an airline mishandles, damages or loses their wheelchair in transit. Now, the Biden Administration has proposed tough new standards for how airlines treat and accommodate people in wheelchairs. The proposed rules wouldContinue Reading