THURSDAY, Feb. 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) Add better brain health to the growing list of protections your beloved pet may provide you: New research suggests that older adults with a furry companion showed slower mental declines than those without one. “Prior studies have suggested that the human-animal bond may have health benefits like decreasing blood […]

Latest Mental Health News THURSDAY, Feb. 24, 2022 (American Heart Association News) Before she gave the feeling a name, Mary-Frances Winters felt it constantly. She calls it “a dull droning sound that is always present” and “an underlying syndrome of sorts that permeates my very being.” It’s the exhaustion born of “the day-to-day […]

THURSDAY, Feb. 24, 2022 (American Heart Association News) In his decades as an actor, Jason Gray-Stanford has appeared in a few medical dramas, often as a patient. And in his best-known role, as Lt. Randy Disher on “Monk,” he faced all kinds of cases that defied easy explanation. But the real-life drama of getting so […]

Latest Mental Health News THURSDAY, Feb. 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) Extreme heat from climate change is making it harder for people with mental illness and drug addiction to cope and adding to pressure on pandemic-stretched U.S. emergency rooms. During these severe summer temperature spikes, Americans with depression, anxiety, mood disorders and drug addiction […]

FRIDAY, Feb. 25, 2022 The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is expected to announce Friday that most Americans can shed their masks in indoor public settings, as the agency changes how it measures the threat of coronavirus in local communities. Until now, case counts have been the primary metric used to determine whether […]

THURSDAY, Feb. 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) Anyone who has more than one dog might have seen it unfold: A beloved pet dies, and the remaining dog seems to suffer as deeply as the rest of the family. Now, new Italian research adds to evidence that man’s best friend does indeed mourn such a loss. Eighty-six […]

Latest Infectious Disease News FRIDAY, Feb, 25, 2022 Mass cullings have been implemented as a highly contagious form of avian flu has swept across the eastern half of the United States in recent weeks, killing both farmed poultry and wild birds. “It’s very concerning, given how quickly this thing is accelerating,” Henry Niman, […]

FRIDAY, Feb. 25, 2022 (HealthDay News) Science could be well on its way to a cure for type 1 diabetes, as researchers hone transplant therapies designed to restore patients’ ability to produce their own insulin, experts say. At least one patient — a 64-year-old Ohio man named Brian Shelton — can now automatically control his […]

FRIDAY, Feb. 25, 2022 (HealthDay News) At least 5.2 million children worldwide have lost a parent or caregiver to COVID-19, and researchers say urgent action is needed to help them. “We estimate that for every person reported to have died as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, one child is left orphaned or loses a […]