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20 Oct
More teens are quitting HS sports saying they don’t look right for the sports based on what they see in the media and social media, according to a new study.
19 Oct
In a new study, participants recently infected with COVID-19 were six times more likely to develop Guillain-Barré syndrome, where the immune system attacks the nerves.
18 Oct
A new study finds adults with ADHD are nearly 3 times more likely to develop dementia compared to those without the condition.
Lori Saxena HealthDay Reporter May 10, 2024
For 14 years, David Perez fought fires in South Florida, thinking he was in peak physical shape. Then a routine physical turned up anomalies in his blood work that turned his life upside down.
"The labs came back irregular. Everything was off," Perez, 44, recalled. “I went to a hematologist and it wasn’t until I saw the word cancer on ... Full Page
Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter May 10, 2024
Opal Sandy was born into a world she could not hear.
The British baby girl, now 18 months old, had a rare genetic condition called auditory neuropathy that interrupted nerve impulses that travel from the inner ear to the brain. She'd been fitted with a cochlear implant, but it could only help so much.
Then came a breakthrough g... Full Page
Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter May 10, 2024
Ascension, a major U.S. health care system with 140 hospitals in 19 states, announced late Thursday that a cyberattack has caused disruptions at some of its hospitals.
"Systems that are currently unavailable include our electronic health records system, MyChart (which enables patients to view their medical records and communicate with thei... Full Page
Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter May 10, 2024
When cancer strikes, you could easily go into debt, even with health insurance in place, according to a new survey from the American Cancer Society.
The survey, based on responses from nearly 1,300 cancer patients and survivors from March 18 through April 14, found that 47% had medical debt. Half of those respondents said that debt exceede... Full Page
Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter May 10, 2024
About 1 in 8 U.S. adults (12%) have tried a weight-loss drug like Wegovy, Ozempic, Zepbound or Mounjaro, a new KFF Health Tracking Poll says.
About 6% are taking one right now, the poll found.
Most patients say they use the drugs (61%) to treat a chronic condition like diabetes or heart disease, which can make it easier to obtain a p... Full Page
Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter May 10, 2024
Athletes who push themselves to maximum performance don’t appear to pay a price when it comes to their longevity, a new study says.
The first 200 athletes to run a mile in under four minutes actually outlived the general population by nearly five years on average, according to results published in the British Journal of Sports Medici... Full Page
Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter May 10, 2024
Happily jumping around lawn sprinklers or playing with garden hoses on a hot summer day: An idyllic childhood scene.
Not so for a bunch of kids in Utah, who all got serious E. coli illnesses from the contaminated water they were exposed to.
In total, 13 kids averaging just 4 years of age were infected during late July of last year i... Full Page
Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter May 10, 2024
Robot-assisted total knee replacements tend to have better outcomes on average, a new study reports.
Unfortunately, there’s a downside – having a surgical robot assist a human surgeon can make the procedure much more costly.
Patients who had a robot-assisted knee replacement stayed in the hospital nearly a half-day less, and were... Full Page
Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter May 10, 2024
Telehealth is revolutionizing health care in America by making it easier than ever to reach a doctor – but not everyone is benefitting, a new study reports.
People with limited English skills are more likely to have worse experiences with telehealth visits than people whose first language is English.
Folks who struggle with English... Full Page
Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter May 9, 2024
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a Class 1 recall -- its most urgent kind -- for an IOS app linked to a specific kind of insulin pump used by people with diabetes.
The recall notice, which the FDA says is a "correction" rather than a product removal, involves version 2.7 of the Apple iOS t:connect mobile app. It's used in c... Full Page
Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter May 9, 2024
Antibiotic-resistant meningitis or severe, long-lasting joint infections: That's what three U.S. "medical tourists" brought home after seeking out unapproved stem cell treatments in Mexico, according to a new report.
The germ involved in all three cases was Mycobacterium abscessus, explained a team led by Dr. Minh-Vu Nguyen, an in... Full Page
Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter May 9, 2024
People who eat large amounts of ultra-processed foods have a slightly higher risk of premature death than those who mostly shun the industrially produced eats, a new 30-year study says.
Those who ate the most ultra-processed foods – an average of seven servings a day – had a 4% higher risk of death overall, and a 9% higher risk of deat... Full Page
Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter May 9, 2024
Colon cancer steadily increased among young people in the United States over the past two decades, with tweens enduring the most dramatic leap in cancer rates, a new study says.
The rate of colon cancer grew 500% among kids 10 to 14 between 1999 and 2020, researchers will report at the Digestive Disease Week medical meeting in Washington, ... Full Page
Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter May 9, 2024
One in every four people age 16 or older with type 1 diabetes may be struggling with an eating disorder, a new review of data on the subject finds.
Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disorder in which the body attacks its own insulin-producing cells in the pancreas, making a person reliant on injected insulin. About 5% of diabetes cases are ... Full Page
Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter May 9, 2024
Every cold and flu season, folks are flooded with ads for zinc lozenges, sprays and syrups that promise to shorten their sniffles.
Zinc might indeed reduce the duration of common cold symptoms by about two days, a new evidence review says.
However, the evidence is not conclusive, and taking zinc can come with some unpleasant side eff... Full Page
Carole Tanzer Miller HealthDay Reporter May 9, 2024
THURSDAY, May 9, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Though it is a widespread disorder, neuropathy often goes undiagnosed, new research shows, leaving many people at risk of falls, infection and even amputation.
Neuropathy is nerve damage that causes numbness and pain in feet and hands.
A study of 169 people treated at an outpatient cli... Full Page
Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter May 9, 2024
Smoking cigarettes while pregnant has long been known to harm the fetus, but new research shows things get even worse when marijuana is in the mix.
The study by a team at Oregon Health & Science University (OSHU) in Portland involved more than 3 million pregnancies.
It found heightened risks for underweight newborns, prete... Full Page
Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter May 9, 2024
A tiny, flexible device that wraps around the spinal cord could be a breakthrough in the treatment of spinal injuries.
The device, developed by a University of Cambridge team, can record 360-degree information and provide a complete picture of spinal cord activity, researchers report in the journal Science Advances.
The devi... Full Page
Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter May 9, 2024
New mothers who like to smoke marijuana might wind up exposing their babies to THC through their own breast milk, a new study says.
THC, the intoxicating compound in cannabis, dissolves in the fats contained in human milk, researchers found.
Mother’s milk produced by weed users always had detectable amounts of THC, even when the mo... Full Page
Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter May 9, 2024
An experimental procedure could reduce levels of a hunger-triggering hormone by burning part of a person’s stomach lining, a new study reports.
In the procedure, doctors snake a tube down the patient’s throat with a tiny device that singes the lining of the upper portion of the stomach, also called the gastric fundus.
That’s th... Full Page