Jan 23, 2022

FRIDAY, Jan. 21, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Prolonged television watching increases the risk for venous thromboembolism (VTE), according to a systematic review and meta-analysis published online Jan. 20...

Jan 21, 2022

FRIDAY, Jan. 21, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Biosimilar drugs could drive down prices for biologic drugs and generate savings of about $38.4 billion between 2021 and 2025, according to a study published ...

Jan 21, 2022

FRIDAY, Jan. 21, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Among adults with overweight or obesity, once-weekly subcutaneous semaglutide plus counseling for diet and physical activity results in significantly greater ...

Jan 21, 2022

FRIDAY, Jan. 21, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Compared with sensor-augmented pump therapy, a hybrid closed-loop system improves glycemic control in young children with type 1 diabetes, according to a stud...

Jan 21, 2022

FRIDAY, Jan. 21, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The prevalence of coronary heart disease (CHD) remained largely unchanged in the United States from 2011 to 2018, according to a research letter published onl...

Jan 21, 2022

FRIDAY, Jan. 21, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- For young children with peanut allergy, initiation of peanut oral immunotherapy is associated with an increase in desensitization and remission, according to ...

Jan 21, 2022

THURSDAY, Jan. 20, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Suicide attempts among U.S. adults increased from 2008 to 2019, according to a study published online Jan. 19 in JAMA Psychiatry.Tanner J. Bommersbach, M.D....

Jan 21, 2022

THURSDAY, Jan. 20, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Suicide attempts among U.S. adults increased from 2008 to 2019, according to a study published online Jan. 19 in JAMA Psychiatry.Tanner J. Bommersbach, M.D....

Jan 21, 2022

THURSDAY, Jan. 20, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Recommendations have been updated for use of the recombinant zoster vaccine (RZV) for prevention of herpes zoster and related complications among immunocomp...

Jan 20, 2022

TURSDAY, Jan. 20, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- In an article published online Dec. 29 in Cancers, long-term adverse and positive outcomes are described for survivors of childhood acute lymphoblastic leuke...

Jan 20, 2022

THURSDAY, Jan. 20, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Women with, versus without, a history of breast cancer have a higher incidence of hypertension and diabetes up to 10 years following diagnosis, according to...

Jan 20, 2022

In December 2020, the FDA granted emergency use authorization for mRNA COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna. However, within days of this authorization, there were several reports of sev...

Jan 20, 2022

WEDNESDAY, Jan. 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The 2021 U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) criteria for lung cancer screening increase eligibility compared with earlier screening criteria, wit...

Jan 20, 2022

WEDNESDSAY, Jan. 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- In the Bronchiolitis Follow-up Intervention Trial (BeneFIT) setting, physicians more often determined that Hispanic patients were not appropriate for as-n...

Jan 20, 2022

WEDNESDAY, Jan. 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- ZIP codes with higher densities of racial and ethnic minorities and low-income groups have higher average exposures to air pollution, according to a study ...

Jan 20, 2022

WEDNESDAY, Jan. 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Dermatologists and patients with psoriatic disease have a positive view of a specialist-led model of care to improve cardiovascular disease (CVD) preventio...

Jan 19, 2022

TUESDAY, Jan. 18, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommends that physicians individualize the decision to refer adults without known cardiovascular disease (...

Jan 18, 2022

TUESDAY, Jan. 18, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Patients who have gastric bypass may be slightly more likely to remain free of obesity-related medications versus those undergoing sleeve gastrectomy, accord...

Jan 18, 2022

TUESDAY, Jan. 18, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Presence of an appendicolith is associated with a nearly twofold increased risk for undergoing appendectomy within 30 days of initiating antibiotics for appe...

Jan 18, 2022

TUESDAY, Jan. 18, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Achieving sustained lifestyle changes by implementing a health promotion program in preschools requires multidisciplinary teams, multidimensional educational...