No Sign of Bird Flu in Ground Beef, USDA Says
THURSDAY, May 2, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- After investigation, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Wednesday that the nation's ground beef supply is so far testing negative for the pres...
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Johnson & Johnson Will Pay $6.5 Billion to Settle Talc Ovarian Cancer Lawsuits
THURSDAY, May 2, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- Johnson & Johnson announced Wednesday that it would pay out more than $6.5 billion over the next 25 years to settle existing lawsuits claiming ...
EPA Earmarks $3 Billion to Replace Lead Pipes Nationwide
THURSDAY, May 2, 2024 (HealthDay News) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said it will spend $3 billion to help states and territories identify and replace lead water pipes....
SGLT2 Inhibitors Improve Outcomes in Patients With Diabetes Plus Kidney Disease
THURSDAY, May 2, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- Use of sodium–glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT2is) is associated with a substantially lower risk for dialysis and cardiovascular disease ...
Long-Term Study of Postmenopausal Women Does Not Support Many Preventive Therapies
THURSDAY, May 2, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- The longitudinal Women's Health Initiative trials do not support hormone therapy for cardiovascular disease prevention, calcium and vitamin D suppl...
Algorithm From EHR Can ID Common Variable Immunodeficiency Disease
THURSDAY, May 2, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- A machine learning algorithm can identify patients with common variable immunodeficiency disease (CVID) from their electronic health records, accor...
Video-Only Noninferior to In-Person Therapy After Thumb Carpometacarpal Arthroplasty
THURSDAY, May 2, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- For upper-extremity function after thumb carpometacarpal (CMC) arthroplasty, video-only therapy (VOT) is noninferior to in-person therapy (IPT), ac...
Sleep Apnea, Low Oxygen in Sleep Linked to Late-Onset Epilepsy
THURSDAY, May 2, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- Sleep apnea and late-midlife oxygen desaturation to less than 80 percent during sleep are associated with subsequent development of late-onset epil...
Recombinant ADAMTS13 Effective, Safe in Congenital Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura
THURSDAY, May 2, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- Prophylaxis with recombinant ADAMTS13 in patients with congenital thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) leads to ADAMTS13 activity reachin...
Neoadjuvant Chemohormonal Therapy Aids Locally Advanced Prostate Cancer
THURSDAY, May 2, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- For patients with locally advanced prostate cancer, neoadjuvant chemohormonal therapy (NCHT) is beneficial for biochemical progression-free surviva...
GWAS Identifies 108 Independent Risk Loci for Kidney Cancer
THURSDAY, May 2, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- A genome-wide association study meta-analysis, published online April 26 in Nature Genetics, has identified 63 susceptibility regions containing 10...
Nonmotor Seizures Often Undiagnosed in the Emergency Department
THURSDAY, May 2, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- Nonmotor seizures are often missed in the emergency department and are only realized after conversion to motor seizures, according to a study publi...
Report Details Nonfatal Traffic-Related Pedestrian Injuries Presenting to the ED
THURSDAY, May 2, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- The overall visit proportion for emergency department visits involving pedestrian injury is 45.62 per 100,000 emergency department visits, accordin...
About 56 Percent of Pregnant Smokers Quit During Pregnancy
THURSDAY, May 2, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- More than half of women who smoke before pregnancy quit while pregnant, according to research published in the May 2 issue of the U.S. Centers for ...
Weight-Bearing Activity Ups Incident Knee OA in People With Low Lower-Limb Muscle Mass
WEDNESDAY, May 1, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- Weight-bearing activity appears tied to incident knee osteoarthritis (OA) in people who have low levels of lower-limb muscle mass, according ...
Social Determinants of Health Tied to Atherosclerotic CVD Risk
WEDNESDAY, May 1, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- Both individual- and area-level social determinants of health (SDOH) are associated with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) risk, acco...
AI May Boost Diagnosis of Rare Genetic Disorders
WEDNESDAY, May 1, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- A random-forest, machine-learning classifier, artificial intelligence-Model organism Aggregated Resources for Rare Variant ExpLoration (AI-MARRVEL...
Osteoporosis Screening Rates Low for Asian American Medicare Beneficiaries
WEDNESDAY, May 1, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- Rates of dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) screening for osteoporosis are lower than expected for Asian American Medicare beneficiaries, acco...
Brief Provocation of Anger Adversely Affects Endothelial Health
WEDNESDAY, May 1, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- A brief provocation of anger has an adverse effect on endothelial cell health, according to a study published online May 1 in the Journal of the A...
Avoid Raw Milk to Cut Risk of Bird Flu, Officials Urge
WEDNESDAY, May 1, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- People drinking raw unpasteurized milk are at risk for potentially contracting bird flu, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned Wednesday.�...
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