WEDNESDAY, Nov. 1, 2023 -- Following nearly two decades of decline, U.S. infant death rates edged up by 3% in 2022, new provisional government numbers reveal. “This was the first year we saw statistically significant increased rates of...
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 1, 2023 -- Cellphone use might be blunting a fellow’s chances of becoming a father, a major new study reports. Young men who frequently use mobile phones have lower sperm concentrations and sperm counts than guys who rarely...
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 1, 2023 -- Newer oral medications for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) do work quite well in the "real world," despite some doubts that they would, according to a new study. The study, of 622 adults with RA, found that most were doing well...
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 1, 2023 -- Newer oral medications for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) do work quite well in the "real world," despite some doubts that they would, according to a new study.The study, of 622 adults with RA, found that most were doing well...
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 1, 2023 – The second person to ever receive a transplanted pig heart has died.Lawrence Faucette, 58, got the transplant just six weeks earlier at the University of Maryland Medical Center in an experimental...
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 1, 2023 -- A new gene therapy for sickle cell disease was deemed safe by a U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel on Tuesday, paving the way for full approval by early December.The FDA had already decided that the...
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 1, 2023 -- A new gene therapy for sickle cell disease was deemed safe by a U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel on Tuesday, paving the way for full approval by early December. The FDA had already decided that the...
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 1, 2023 -- Many antibiotics long used to treat common childhood infections are no longer effective because of antibiotic resistance.The authors of a new study say global guidelines on antibiotic use need to be updated to reflect...
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 1, 2023 -- A new, more comfortable wearable electrocardiogram (ECG) device could be on its way.Researchers from Australia and India have created a compact, lightweight, gel-free hexagonal-shaped ECG patch that they say is ideally...
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 1, 2023 -- Adding warning labels to meat about its impact on climate and health could lower its consumption, a new study suggests.British researchers investigated what adding cigarette-style graphic warning labels to meat in a...
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 1, 2023 -- While new treatments for leukemia have improved outcomes for many patients, children with Down syndrome have not benefited as much.These young people are at increased risk for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and have...
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 1, 2023 -- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, better known as ALS, is debilitating and has no cure.Now, researchers at the University of Michigan have developed an environmental risk score that will allow them to assess a person’s...