How Does A Pregnant Woman’s Weight Influence Her Child’s Infection Risk?
Latest Pregnancy News By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, June 4, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Children born to women who are obese have a higher risk of landing in a hospital with a severe infection, a new study says. Infants under 1 year of age have a 41% increased risk of hospitalization for infection if […]
Preemptive Kidney Transplants Add No Benefit, Study Says
Latest Digestion News By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, June 4, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Folks who might need a kidney transplant in the future shouldn’t rush to get one, a new study says. Patients gain no benefit from getting a donated kidney before their own kidneys deteriorate to the point that they require dialysis, […]
Sickle Cell Plagues Many Black Americans, But There’s Hope for Better Treatments
Latest MedicineNet News By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter FRIDAY, June 18, 2021 (HealthDay News) It’s been more than six months since Brandy Compton last landed in a hospital emergency room. That’s an amazing medical achievement, brought about by scientific breakthroughs that have been unfortunately overshadowed by the coronavirus pandemic, experts say. Compton, 31, […]
Pot Use May Change the Teenage Brain, MRIs Show
Latest Mental Health News By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, June 17, 2021 (HealthDay News) Smoking pot appears to affect teens‘ brain development, altering it in ways that could diminish their reasoning, decision-making and memory skills as they age, a new study reports. Brain scans of about 800 teenagers found that those who […]
Opinion | What Happens When We Classify Kids’ Weight as a ‘Disease’?
Kim Dennis, MD, is a psychiatrist specializing in eating disorders. On January 9 of this year, the American Academy of Pediatricians (AAP) published their “Clinical Practice Guideline for the Evaluation and Treatment of Children and Adolescents with Obesity.” With this guidance, the AAP is advising doctors and other providers that the “monitoring” and “watchful waiting” […]
Magic Mushroom Hallucinogen May Treat Problem Drinking
Latest Mental Health News By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, Aug. 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) Jon Kostas, a lifelong resident of New York City, started bar-hopping at age 13. At the height of his alcoholism, he was consuming as many as 30 drinks a night. Desperate for a way out, Kostas, 32, turned to a […]
Ivermectin, Luvox Fail as COVID-19 Treatment
Latest Coronavirus News By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, Aug. 18, 2022 (HealthDay News) Two drugs touted as potential COVID-19 treatments, ivermectin and fluvoxamine, don’t do a thing to improve patients’ oxygen levels and keep them out of the hospital or the morgue, a new clinical trial has shown. Neither of the two repurposed drugs […]
Cheaper Over-the-Counter Hearing Aids Should Be in Stores by October, FDA Says
Latest Hearing News By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, Aug. 16, 2022 (HealthDay News) Affordable over-the-counter hearing aids will bring relief to millions of Americans suffering from hearing loss by mid-October, under a landmark proposal just announced by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The final rule announced Tuesday creates a category of hearing aids […]
New Reports on Polio: How Worried Should We Be? – MedicineNet Health News
Latest Infectious Disease News By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, Aug. 16, 2022 (HealthDay News) Poliovirus detected in New York City wastewater last week put public health officials on high alert, as it indicates the potentially paralyzing virus is circulating widely in the area. But infectious disease experts say there’s no need for families of […]
Your Brain Gets Tired, and Scientists Now Know Why
Latest Neurology News By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter FRIDAY, Aug. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) Preparing your taxes is a purely mental activity, but one that leaves many exhausted by the end of the effort. The same goes for reading a dense report, picking apart reams of spreadsheet data, or writing a fact-laden paper. That feeling […]