THURSDAY, May 24, 2018 (HealthDay News) — Many first-time mothers have mistaken ideas about managing the pain of childbirth, a new survey reveals. The survey, commissioned by the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA), included more than 900 U.S. mothers, 73 percent of whom had vaginal births. While many said they had less pain than feared,…
DetailsTHURSDAY, May 24, 2018 (HealthDay News) — If you’re taking an antidepressant, you’re likely to gain weight, a new study out of Britain reports. That’s a finding that generated little surprise among mental health experts. “Psychiatrists have known about it, written about it and heard their patients talk about it for decades,” said Dr. Brian…
DetailsWEDNESDAY, May 23, 2018 (HealthDay News) — Cinnamon flavorings in e-cigarettes can impair the ability of lungs to get rid of breath-clogging mucus, a new lab study contends. Cinnamaldehyde is the biochemical that gives cinnamon its distinctive flavor and smell, and it has been approved as a food additive by the U.S. Food and Drug…
DetailsWEDNESDAY, May 23, 2018 (HealthDay News) — In a reversal of historical patterns, lung cancer is now more common among young U.S. women than men, a new study finds. The good news, researchers found, is that over the past two decades, lung cancer rates among 35- to 54-year-old Americans have dropped across the board. But…
DetailsWEDNESDAY, May 23, 2018 (HealthDay News) — Vaping has been touted as a way to help smokers quit, but new research finds e-cigarettes and free nicotine replacement products barely move the motivation needle. “As best we know right now, the most effective tool to help all smokers stop is to pay them to do so,”…
DetailsWEDNESDAY, May 23, 2018 (HealthDay News) — For older people, breathing in dirty air puts them at risk of being hospitalized with a dangerous respiratory disease, a new study suggests. Among U.S. seniors, hospital admissions for acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) rose as levels of both ozone and fine particulate matter increased — even when…
DetailsWEDNESDAY, May 23, 2018 (American Heart Association) — A preterm birth may serve as an early warning of a woman’s future risk of a heart attack or stroke, according to a new study. The findings, published May 23 in the American Heart Association journal Hypertension, found that women who gave birth before 37 weeks of…
DetailsWEDNESDAY, May 23, 2018 (American Heart Association) — A preterm birth may serve as an early warning of a woman’s future risk of a heart attack or stroke, according to a new study. The findings, published May 23 in the American Heart Association journal Hypertension, found that women who gave birth before 37 weeks of…
DetailsWEDNESDAY, May 23, 2018 (HealthDay News) — One out of every three U.S. adults has high blood pressure that should be treated with medication, under guidelines recently adopted by the two leading heart health associations. The American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association redefined high blood pressure at 130/80 in November, down from the…
DetailsWEDNESDAY, May 23, 2018 (HealthDay News) — Adding more seafood to the diet could help get couples’ sex lives, and even their fertility, back in the swim of things, new research shows. The study couldn’t prove cause and effect, but couples who ate more fish each week were more likely to conceive children during the…
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