THURSDAY, Jan. 11, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A biorobotic heart that combines a biological pig heart with a silicone robotic pump is providing researchers with a new tool to understand and potentially treat heart disease. Scientists built the heart by replacing the heart muscle in the left chamber with aContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 10, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A hot shower, a glass of wine, a good book and sex are a few of Americans’ favorite ways to unwind at bedtime, a new survey shows. “What defines a comfortable night’s sleep varies from person to person, but developing a consistent sleepContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Jan. 9, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Eight Philadelphia residents are known to have contracted measles, the city’s department of health said in an update on the outbreak released Monday. Measles is highly infectious, and Philadelphia health care staff are “working to identify everyone who may have been exposed, checkingContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Jan. 9, 2024 (HealthDay News) — It’s an approach that’s becoming more widespread: Receiving hospital-level care in the home. A new study finds that folks “hospitalized” at home tend to do at least as well as if they’d been checked into a hospital for medical care. Patients getting hospital-levelContinue Reading
MONDAY, Jan. 8, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Folks quenching their thirst with bottled water can expect to chug down hundreds of thousands of minute plastic particles with their refreshing H2O, a new study reports. On average, a liter of bottled water contains some 240,000 detectible plastic fragments – 10 toContinue Reading
MONDAY, Jan. 8, 2024 (HealthDay News) — With donations falling to the lowest levels in 20 years, the American Red Cross declared a national blood shortage on Sunday. “One of the most distressing situations for a doctor is to have a hospital full of patients and an empty refrigerator withoutContinue Reading
MONDAY, Jan. 8, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Paxlovid might help shorten and diminish a COVID infection, but the antiviral doesn’t reduce the risk of developing long COVID, a new study shows. About 16% of COVID patients treated with Paxlovid wound up with long COVID symptoms, compared to 14% of thoseContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Jan. 4, 2023 (HeathDay News) — Muscle cells’ “power stations” function less effectively in people with long COVID, potentially explaining the persistent fatigue that’s a hallmark of the condition. That’s the finding of a Dutch study published Jan. 4 in the journal Nature Communications. “We’re seeing clear changes inContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Jan. 2, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Prolonged fasting before an internal heart exam done under sedation may be unnecessary, new research suggests. Typically, patients undergoing coronary artery catherization are told to take nothing by mouth after midnight before the procedure, but a randomized controlled trial at a Midwest heartContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Jan. 2, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Despite a common belief in the medical community and elsewhere, the vast majority of people who undergo gender-affirming surgery do not regret it later. In all, less than 1% of people who underwent gender-affirming surgery said they wished they hadn’t done it, aContinue Reading