Jan 09, 2020

THURSDAY, Jan. 9, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- In a clinical practice guideline from the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Foundation, published online Jan. 7 in Otolaryngology-Head...

Jan 08, 2020

Significantly more patients treated with Ubrelvy versus placebo achieved pain freedom two hours post-treatment TUESDAY, Dec. 24, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Ubrelvy (ubrogepant) tablets have been ap...

Jan 07, 2020

Agency says it is still too early to know how severe this year's flu season will be. MONDAY, Dec. 30, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Flu continues to spread throughout the United States and has reached...

Jan 07, 2020

Percentage of critical care admissions and suicidal intent increased in each era. MONDAY, Dec. 30, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- The severity of pediatric admissions for acute opioid ingestions, especia...

Jan 02, 2020

Most peanut-allergic individuals could tolerate tree nuts, but many avoid them MONDAY, Dec. 30, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Individual tree nuts have unique characteristics in the context of peanut al...

Dec 30, 2019

New evidence demonstrates more clearly that it is possible to develop severe immediate hypersensitivity to macrogols, of which the most familiar form to most physicians is polyethylene glycol (PEG) 33...

Dec 27, 2019

The longer patients continue with buprenorphine treatment, the lower their risk of adverse outcomes.   THURSDAY, Dec. 26, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Buprenorphine treatment may be needed ...

Dec 19, 2019

A study has found that an updated risk calculator is a better discriminator of risk than other risk assessment strategies for patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension.   When manag...

Dec 09, 2019

Previous studies indicate that approximately half of Medicare spending is accounted for by those with four or more comorbidities, yet this group experiences poor outcomes including unmanaged symptoms ...

Dec 05, 2019

THURSDAY, Dec. 5, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Current and former electronic cigarette users have increased odds of depression compared with never users, according to a study published online Dec. 4 in JA...

Dec 04, 2019

WEDNESDAY, Dec. 4, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Deep learning models can be used for interpretation of chest radiographs, according to a study published online Dec. 3 in Radiology. Anna Majkowska, Ph.D.,...

Dec 03, 2019

TUESDAY, Nov. 26, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first tympanostomy tube delivery system that can be performed under local anesthesia in a physician's ...

Dec 03, 2019

TUESDAY, Dec. 3, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Exposure to ambient air pollution is associated with a higher risk for glaucoma and adverse structural characteristics of the disease, according to a study pu...

Dec 03, 2019

TUESDAY, Dec. 3, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Low clinical pretest probability (C-PTP) and a ᴅ-dimer of less than 1,000 ng/mL identify patients with a low risk for pulmonary embolism, according to a...

Dec 03, 2019

TUESDAY, Dec. 3, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- A digital sepsis alert is associated with improved outcomes, according to a study published online Nov. 20 in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics ...

Nov 26, 2019

TUESDAY, Nov. 26, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- In patients with moderate-to-severe obstructive sleep apnea, positive airway pressure (PAP) therapy reduces acute and inpatient care visits as well as health...

Nov 25, 2019

MONDAY, Nov. 25, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- An integrated approach using data from the Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Genetic Epidemiologic study (COPDGene®) could identify individuals wi...

Nov 25, 2019

MONDAY, Nov. 25, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Nearly one in 10 Americans who vape purchase their products from an unauthorized seller, according to the results of a survey released Nov. 18 by the American...

Nov 22, 2019

FRIDAY, Nov. 22, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- A bill banning flavored vaping and tobacco products was passed by the Massachusetts Senate on Thursday and could become the first such statewide legislation i...

Nov 22, 2019

FRIDAY, Nov. 22, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Receiving treatment is associated with better survival for nonagenarians with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), with the greatest survival benefit for stage...