All posts by LadyLively

  • Extra Money Keeps Poorer Americans Out of the ER, Study Finds

    It’s a simple strategy that could deliver powerful health dividends: New research shows that giving cash to poor people could help them stay out of the ER. In the study, investigators followed nearly 2,900 low-income people who...

    • Posted July 23, 2024
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  • Marijuana Use While Pregnant Could Raise Odds for Complications

    There’s a slight but significant rise in dangerous obstetric complications for pregnant women who use marijuana, new research shows. Data from almost 317,000 pregnancies in women in California found those who used the drug had higher odds...

    • Posted July 23, 2024
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  • Study Finds Big Shift in Who’s Using GLP-1 Meds Like Ozempic

    The boom in using GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic to treat obesity has resulted in a bust regarding the drugs’ original purpose, which was to treat type 2 diabetes, a new study finds.  New prescriptions for these drugs...

    • Posted July 23, 2024
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  • Psychotherapy Via Texts Can Be Just as Effective

    Folks with depression who got therapy via text or voice messages fared just as well as those who got weekly video-based telemedicine sessions with a therapist, a new trial has found. The findings “suggest that psychotherapy delivered...

    • Posted July 23, 2024
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  • Younger May Not Fare Better When It Comes to Leg Artery Disease

    Middle-aged folks don’t necessarily fare better than seniors following urgent surgery to unclog arteries and restore blood flow to their legs, a new study warns. Adults in their 50s with peripheral artery disease (PAD) appear more likely...

    • Posted July 23, 2024
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  • Another Study Ties Poor Sleep to Type 2 Diabetes

    Consistently bad sleep is linked to a person’s risk of developing type 2 diabetes, a new study shows. Both too little and too much sleep is tied to diabetes risk, and swinging wildly between the two patterns...

    • Posted July 23, 2024
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  • City vs. Country vs. Suburbs: Who’s Happier?

    City dwellers are less likely to be healthy, happy and well-off than people living outside urban areas, a new study reports. Instead, there’s a suburban “Goldilocks zone” between cities and rural areas where people are happiest, researchers...

    • Posted July 23, 2024
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  • Predicting Myriad Diseases From a Single Drop of Blood

    A single drop of blood might be able to predict the onset of dozens of diseases, a new study claims. Analysis of the protein “signatures” in a droplet of blood can predict 67 diseases, including blood cancers,...

    • Posted July 23, 2024
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  • How Well Would Meds Work on a Mission to Mars?

    How many drugs in your bathroom medicine cabinet have expired? Now imagine you have no way of refilling them, because you’re millions of miles from home. That’s the dilemma that will face astronauts on a Mars mission,...

    • Posted July 23, 2024
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  • Two More Bird Flu Cases Reported in Colorado Poultry Workers

    Two more cases of bird flu have been reported in Colorado poultry workers, but reassuring research finds the virus doesn’t seem to be fueling silent infections, U.S. health officials report. The two additional H5N1 avian flu infections...

    • Posted July 22, 2024
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