We’ve Been Here Before: How Polio Vaccine Rollout Saved Millions of Young Lives
Latest Infectious Disease News By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, Nov. 2, 2021 (HealthDay News) An infection that can disable and kill stalks the land, but a brand-new vaccine offers hope that almost everyone, kids included, can evade it. After scientific testing, a nationwide rollout of the vaccine begins. Sound familiar? As the […]
CDC Panel Signs Off on Pfizer Vaccine for Younger Kids
Latest Healthy Kids News By Dennis Thompson and Robin Foster HealthDay Reporters TUESDAY, Nov. 2, 2021 (HealthDay News) The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention‘s vaccine advisory panel voted unanimously on Tuesday to recommend the emergency use of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine in kids ages 5-11. CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky is widely […]
Guard Dogs, Panic Buttons: Nurses Under Threat From Rising Violence
Latest Mental Health News By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter MONDAY, Nov. 1, 2021 (HealthDay News) Emergency room nurse Grace Politis was catching up on paperwork during her shift when she suddenly realized her head hurt badly. Then she blacked out. “Later on, I found out I was hit in the head twice with […]
How the COVID Pandemic Made the Opioid Epidemic Worse, Even as Telehealth Helped
Latest Mental Health News By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter FRIDAY, Oct. 1, 2021 (HealthDay News) The COVID-19 pandemic has shaken up the U.S. opioid crisis in ways bad and good, increasing the risk of use and overdose but also spurring innovative approaches to treatment. The pandemic has definitely been linked to an increase […]
Osteoporosis Drug May Keep Type 2 Diabetes at Bay
Latest Diabetes News By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, Sept. 28, 2021 (HealthDay News) A drug widely used to treat osteoporosis might reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes, a new study suggests. Taking the drug alendronate (Fosamax) for at least eight years could potentially reduce a person’s risk of type 2 diabetes […]
Delay in Graphic Warning Labels on Cigarettes Cost Lives: Study
Latest Lungs News By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter MONDAY, Sept. 27, 2021 (HealthDay News) A specimen cup full of bloody urine. Decaying feet that sport blackened, rotting toes — some already amputated. A pale boy with dark circles under his eyes, drawing breath through an oxygen mask. Around 179,000 deaths in the United […]
Is Insulin Resistance a Recipe for Depression?
Latest Depression News By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, Sept. 23, 2021 (HealthDay News) Insulin resistance can make you more than twice as likely to develop major depression, even if you haven’t developed full-blown diabetes, a new study reports. Initially healthy people who later developed prediabetes were 2.6 times more likely to come […]
More Women Turning to Marijuana Products to Help With Menopause
Latest Menopause News By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, Sept. 22, 2021 (HealthDay News) Sleeplessness. Night sweats. Anxiety. Irritability. Aches and pains. Would smoking a little pot help women deal with these common symptoms of menopause? A good number of middle-aged women apparently think so, because they’ve been turning to marijuana to help […]
Are Cheaper, Over-the-Counter Hearing Aids on the Way? – MedicineNet Health News
Latest Hearing News By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter FRIDAY, Sept. 10, 2021 Until now, folks suffering from hearing loss typically have had to fork out thousands of dollars for a device that could be adjusted only by a professional audiologist. No wonder that only one-quarter of the nearly 29 million U.S. adults who […]
Are Cheaper, Over-the-Counter Hearing Aids on the Way? – MedicineNet Health News
Latest Hearing News By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter FRIDAY, Sept. 10, 2021 Until now, folks suffering from hearing loss typically have had to fork out thousands of dollars for a device that could be adjusted only by a professional audiologist. No wonder that only one-quarter of the nearly 29 million U.S. adults who […]