Will Reading Books Make You Any Happier?
Latest Mental Health News By Alan Mozes HealthDay Reporter FRIDAY, Jan. 7, 2022 (HealthDay News) When it comes to what makes us happy, is reading or listening to music any better than spending hours playing video games? Not really, says a team of researchers from the United Kingdom and Austria. “Many people believe […]
Hospitals Are Rationing COVID Pills, Infusions as Cases Rise
Latest Coronavirus News FRIDAY, Jan. 7, 2022 (HealthDay News) It is the ultimate irony: More COVID-19 treatments exist now than at any other time during the pandemic, but the skyrocketing number of cases from the surging Omicron variant might mean you can’t get them when you need them most. Doctors and health systems […]
CDC Warns of Rise in Rabies Linked to Bats – MedicineNet Health News
Latest Infectious Disease News FRIDAY, Jan. 7, 2022 Three people died recently in the United States recently from rabies linked to bats, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday. They bring the total number of U.S. rabies cases in 2021 to five. That’s a sharp rise over prior years — […]
Gene Therapy May Be Long-Term Cure for Type of Hemophilia
Latest Chronic Pain News By Dennis ThompsonHealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, Jan. 2, 2020 (HealthDay News) — A new gene therapy appears to serve as a functional cure for the most common type of hemophilia, early clinical trial results indicate. Patients who received the one-time intravenous therapy continue to have a more than 90% decrease […]
AHA News: 32-Year-Old Mom Faces ‘Widow Maker’
Latest Heart News THURSDAY, Jan. 2, 2020 (American Heart Association News) — Ever since Ashli Stewart was a kid, people have told her that she’s old at heart. Raised by a single mother, Stewart often made dinner and helped her little brother with his homework. Today, as a mother of three and an […]
TB Vaccine More Powerful When Given Intravenously
Latest Infectious Disease News THURSDAY, Jan. 2, 2020 (HealthDay News) — The tuberculosis (TB) vaccine is far from infallible, but new animal research suggests the problem is not the vaccine but how it is delivered. When given to monkeys intravenously rather than as an injection, the vaccine was much more effective, researchers from […]
CDC Warns of Rise in Rabies Linked to Bats – MedicineNet Health News
Latest Infectious Disease News FRIDAY, Jan. 7, 2022 Three people died recently in the United States recently from rabies linked to bats, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday. They bring the total number of U.S. rabies cases in 2021 to five. That’s a sharp rise over prior years — […]
Could New Blood Test Predict Pregnancy Complications?
Latest Pregnancy News By Denise Mann HealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, Jan. 6, 2022 (HealthDay News) A simple blood test may help spot pregnant women who are at risk for developing preeclampsia — dangerously high blood pressure during pregnancy — before it becomes a threat to both mother and child. Marked by a sudden spike […]
Drug Might Help Ease ‘Sensory Demands’ of Autism
Latest Neurology News By Amy Norton HealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, Jan. 6, 2022 (HealthDay News) A medication that acts on certain brain receptors can temporarily ease visual-processing problems in some adults with autism, a small study has found. Researchers said it’s far too early to know whether the drug, arbaclofen, could prove useful in […]
Parlez-vous ‘Woof’? Dogs May Distinguish Between Different Human Languages
Latest Pet Health News THURSDAY, Jan. 6, 2022 (HealthDay News) – Dogs don’t speak a human language, but they do know when you switch from one tongue to another, an intriguing new study finds. “We know that people, even preverbal human infants, notice the difference,” said study co-author Laura Cuaya of Eötvös Loránd […]