TUESDAY, Aug. 21, 2018 (HealthDay News) — The Pap smear has long been the gold standard for cervical cancer screening, but an expert panel now says the HPV (human papillomavirus) test is also an option for women over 30. These women now have three choices under new recommendations issued by the U.S. Preventive Services Task…
TUESDAY, Aug. 21, 2018 (HealthDay News) — A new method of diagnosing heart attack patients in the emergency department is more accurate and faster than current methods, researchers say. The laboratory score can also identify patients at risk of more heart problems after they leave the hospital, according to the study published Aug. 20 in…
TUESDAY, Aug. 21, 2018 (HealthDay News) — While the total number of U.S. deaths from heart disease has declined in recent years, it has stayed the same for younger women. This prompted researchers from Harvard and Indiana universities to look for lifestyle factors that could promote heart health. They analyzed 20 years of records from…
MONDAY, Aug. 20, 2018 (HealthDay News) — Maybe it’s time to retire the office cubicle. A new study suggests that open workspaces without partitions between desks encourage employees to be more active and help curb stress. “We are becoming an increasingly sedentary workforce, and anything that we can do, even passively, to nudge physical activity…
MONDAY, Aug. 20, 2018 (HealthDay News) — A substantial number of pregnant women may be turning to marijuana to ease morning sickness, a new study suggests. The study of more than 220,000 pregnant women found that more than 5 percent had recently used marijuana. And it was more common among women who’d been suffering from…
FRIDAY, Aug. 17, 2018 (HealthDay News) — Testing for gene mutations linked to breast and ovarian cancer is rare among some Medicare patients who have the cancers and qualify for such tests, a new study finds. Researchers analyzed data from 12 southeastern states between 2000 and 2014. Only 8 percent of 92 women who met…
