(HealthNewsDigest.com) – LOS ANGELES (Feb. 5, 2019) — A new Cedars-Sinai study shows that using Fitbit activity monitors to measure steps taken in the days after surgery can predict which patients leave the hospital sooner.
Month: February 2019
Is Your Sleep Problem Tied To The Family Tree? Here Are 3 Diet Tips To Reverse It
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – It’s estimated that 50-70 million U.S. adults have some type of sleeping disorder. And what you eat or don’t eat may impact how you sleep.
What Every Parent Needs to Know About Kids and Screen Time
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – SAN DIEGO, California – (February 5, 2019) – According to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), in 1970 children didn’t start regularly watching TV until they were four years old.
What Pregnant Women Need to Know About Heart Health (VIDEO)
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Pregnancy is a great time to talk about heart health. Dr. Sharonne N. Hayes, a Mayo Clinic cardiologist, says that women should know that they are at risk for heart disease and that pregnancy is a time of increased risk.
Putting Yourself in Their Shoes May Make You Less Open to Their Beliefs
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Trying to take someone else’s perspective may make you less open to their opposing views, according to findings published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.
Step Forward for Pneumonia Vaccine Development
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – A vaccine against the biggest bacterial killer on the planet is a step closer to being available with funding secured for preclinical trials.
I Was Supposed to Die at 57: Go Red for Women
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – The pain was textbook, “In the chest, down the arm, up the jaw” but when Miki Goodwin, then two years in as chief nursing officer of a prominent Phoenix hospital, saw a specialist and asked for an angiogram, he brushed off her request and opted for a stress test and an EKG, all normal.
10 Easy Tips for a Healthy Heart
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – When you’re looking for tips to protect your heart, who better to ask than a cardiologist?
Women at Risk for Heart Disease Need to Begin Prevention Early
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Women have a low prevalence of heart disease until menopause so they are not tested until they are in their 50s or 60s. However, women with risk factors for heart disease need to begin to take the disease seriously much earlier in life.
MD Anderson Supports World Cancer Day Call for Action to End Cancer
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – As an institution devoted to eliminating cancer for patients in Texas, the nation and around the world, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center is proud to uphold the mission of World Cancer Day, Feb.4, to unite the global population toward the goal of eradicating the disease.
New Clues Discovered to Lung Transplant Rejection
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – A lung transplant often remains the only option for many patients with end-stage lung disease, a condition that can be brought on by emphysema, pulmonary fibrosis, cystic fibrosis and other lung disorders.
Researchers Find Overdose Deaths Are Likely to Increase with ‘Changing Nature’ of Opioid Epidemic
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – The opioid epidemic could be responsible for 700,000 overdose deaths in the United States between 2016 and 2025, according to a new study published today in JAMA Network Open.
Common e-cigarette Chemical Flavorings May Impair Lung Function
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Boston, MA – Two chemicals widely used to flavor electronic cigarettes may be impairing the function of cilia in the human airway, according to a new study led by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Shopping for Fitness Wearables?
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – MORRISTOWN, NJ – It’s February, and that means that most people’s New Year’s resolutions are about to hit that make-or-break period.
Leaders Meet in Colorado to Set Research Agenda for Early-onset Colorectal Cancer
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – While the overall incidence of colorectal cancer has fallen about 2 percent annually over the previous two decades, the incidence of early-onset colorectal cancer has risen.
Microbes Hitched to Insects Provide a Rich Source of New Antibiotics
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – MADISON – Medicine was transformed in the 20th century by the discovery and development of antibiotics, the vast majority of which came from one source: soil bacteria.
A New Toolkit For Studying How ‘PARP’ Activity Boosts Cancers
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – A new method developed by scientists at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health is likely to speed the study of an important biological process called ADP-ribosylation.
ATS Publishes New Clinical Guideline on Home Oxygen for Children
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – The American Thoracic Society has developed a new clinical practice guideline for home oxygen therapy for children.
Early Intervention in Autism Improves Language, IQ and Social Skills
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Breakthrough research demonstrating that children with autism as young as 18 months can vastly improve their language, cognition and social skills with an early intervention
Rutgers Study Finds Rise in Overdoses from Opioids in Diarrhea Drug
(HealthNewsDigest.com) – A Rutgers study has uncovered a new threat in the opiate epidemic: Overdoses of loperamide, an over-the-counter diarrhea medication, have been steadily increasing in number and severity nationwide over five years