All posts by LadyLively

  • Was the FDA Too Quick Approving Test for Opioid Addiction Risk?

    A test to gauge if it’s safe to prescribe a patient an addictive opioid may have been approved too soon by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, claims a letter sent to the agency by a group...

    • Posted April 5, 2024
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  • Maker Is Pulling Controversial ALS Drug Relyvrio Off the Market

    THURSDAY, April 4, 2024 (HealthDayNews) — Following disappointing trial results, the maker of a controversial ALS drug said it is pulling the medication off the market. In a statement issued Thursday, Amylyx Pharmaceuticals said that Relyvrio failed...

    • Posted April 4, 2024
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  • Too Many U.S. Women Disrespected, Mistreated During Childbirth

    Childbirth is a harrowing ordeal, and it’s being made worse by mistreatment from health care providers during labor, a new study says. More than one in every eight women are mistreated during childbirth, researchers found. Most commonly,...

    • Posted April 4, 2024
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  • Small Study Suggests Ozempic Relative May Slow Parkinson’s

    Could a medication similar to the blockbuster weight-loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy slow the ravages of Parkinson’s disease? A new, small study suggests it could: Over the course of a year, a group of French researchers followed...

    • Posted April 4, 2024
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  • First Pig Kidney Transplant Patient Discharged From Hospital

    Rick Slayman, the first person to receive a kidney transplant from a genetically modified pig, headed home Wednesday after faring so well that he was released from the hospital just two weeks after his groundbreaking surgery. “This...

    • Posted April 4, 2024
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  • Cancer Cases Will Keep Rising Worldwide: Report

    Cancer cases will continue to climb for the next two decades, spurred on by an aging worldwide population, a new report shows. An estimated 20 million new cancer cases were diagnosed in 2022, and 9.7 million died...

    • Posted April 4, 2024
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  • Seniors, Stay Away From Young Kids to Avoid Pneumonia: Study

    Sticky fingers, runny noses: Little kids are sweet, but they can also pass on dangerous germs to loving grandparents, new research confirms. The study found that contact with pre-school and kindergarten-aged kids may be the leading transmission...

    • Posted April 4, 2024
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  • Rising Threat to Americans’ Healthy Sleep: Neighborhood Gunfire

    A good night’s sleep is often hampered by caffeine, hunger, alcohol or chronic pain. Now, America has a new cause of poor sleep: the sound of gunfire on city streets. New research shows that gunshots are twice...

    • Posted April 4, 2024
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  • Early Menopause, Heart Disease a Bad Combo for Women’s Brains

    Women who enter menopause before their 50s and who also have heart disease risk factors may be at especially high risk for thinking declines and later dementia, new research shows. “While cardiovascular risk factors are known to...

    • Posted April 4, 2024
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  • Tough Work Hours in 20s, 30s Tied to Worse Health Decades Later

    A rotten work schedule in young adulthood can affect a person’s middle-aged health, a new study finds. Young adults who worked shifts outside the usual 9-to-5 schedule were more likely to report worse sleep and symptoms of...

    • Posted April 4, 2024
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