Mysterious cases of serious liver damage or hepatitis in kids have been reported in a dozen countries, including the U.S., the U.K., Japan, and Canada.
Health officials say there have been nearly 200 cases, 17 liver transplants, and one death.
Health officials report that the outbreak may be linked to adenovirus, a common cold virus.
Any child showing signs of jaundice, a symptom of hepatitis, should be...
Even the smallest dose of exercise, such as a short, brisk walk, can significantly lower the risk of depression, a new data meta-analysis study says .
According to a journal article published Wednesday in JAMA Psychiatry, 15 peer-reviewed studies on depression reduction and its association with exercise were examined that involved more than 190,000 people.
The analysis found that an average of 1.25 hours of...
Months of confusing messaging, piled onto existing inequities, kneecapped America’s booster campaign before it had really started.
By this point in the pandemic, the benefits of boosters seem pretty darn clear. Boosters continue the immune system’s education on the coronavirus , upping the quantity of defensive fighters available, while expanding the breadth of variants that vaccinated...
Corey Binney spent 10 years in the restaurant industry before hanging up his apron to pursue a career doing electrical work.
Today, Binney, 33, is an apprentice at Kestrel Apprenticeship Training Center , an apprenticeship school at Falcon Electric , a local electrical contracting company.
Binney grew up in restaurants; his grandparents own George's Family Restaurant on Glenstone Avenue. For the last 10...
THURSDAY, April 7, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Urinary tract infections are common and usually simple to treat. But for people who become sick enough to land in the hospital with one, an experimental antibiotic may soon offer a new treatment option -- taken by mouth instead of delivered by IV.
In a clinical trial, researchers found that the pill, called tebipenem HBr, worked as well as a standard IV antibiotic in...
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(CNN) Prediabetes in America's youth is following a concerning trend: Rates among children have more than doubled in about 20 years, according to a new study.
The increase was seen over almost all subpopulations of young Americans, regardless of income, ethnicity and education, said study author Junxiu Liu , assistant professor of population health science and policy at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York....
Whenever it arrives, the next surge could put the country’s tolerance for disease and death in full relief.
At this very moment, the United States, as a whole, remains in its legit pandemic lull. Coronavirus case counts and hospitalizations are lower than they’ve been since last summer. There’s now a nice, chonky gap between us and January’s Omicron peak.
And yet. Outbreaks have erupted...
MONDAY, March 21, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- You've probably seen an infusion pump, even though the name might make it sound like a mysterious piece of medical technology.
These devices govern the flow of IV medications and fluids into patients. They help deliver extra fluids to people in the emergency room, administer monoclonal antibodies to folks with COVID-19, and pump chemotherapy drugs to cancer patients.
"If you're watching a...
Researchers investigated the underlying reasons for drug resistance in a mutated form of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteria.
They found that drug-resistant mutations contained a flipped mirror image, known as flipped chirality, of the binding site for a key co-factor in MRSA replication.
The study authors stress the need to take these findings into account when designing new drugs for...
For over a decade, psychiatrist and neuroscientist Dr. Thomas Insel headed the National Institute of Mental Health and directed billions of dollars into research on neuroscience and the genetic underpinnings of mental illnesses.
"Our efforts were largely to say, 'How can we understand mental disorders as brain disorders, and how can we develop better tools for diagnosis and treatment?'" Insel said in an interview with NPR.
But in the...
Joy Lee and Dan Pfeifle arrived early for the June, 2019, meeting of the American Medical Association, where they were helping to lead a gathering of the A.M.A’s medical-student delegation. The medical students usually assembled early to discuss priorities, but this year they had an additional reason to strategize: they had decided that they would try to persuade the A.M.A.’s governing body, the House of Delegates, to end the...