Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/adjusting-opioid-prescriptions-after-ed-can-reduce-misuse/ Smaller, cause-specific opioid prescriptions after emergency department visits for acute pain could provide adequate pain management and reduce the risk of misuse of unused opioid pills, according to new research. In a prospective study in Canada, about two thirds of opioid tablets remained unused at 2 weeks post discharge, and this […]
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Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/vitamin-b1-may-help-lower-constipation-risk-in-adults/ TOPLINE: Increased dietary intake of vitamin B1 is associated with a lower prevalence of constipation, particularly among men and individuals without hypertension or diabetes. METHODOLOGY: Researchers conducted a cross-sectional study using National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey data from 2005-2010 involving 10,371 adults aged ≥ 20 years. Participants provided information on […]
Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/anesthesia-in-kids-does-not-increase-neurobehavioral-issues/ TOPLINE: Exposure to anesthesia during an appendectomy in children does not uniquely increase the risk for subsequent neurobehavioral diagnoses compared with medical admissions without anesthesia. METHODOLOGY: Researchers assessed 134,388 children who underwent an appendectomy and 671,940 matched healthy children from the Medicaid database between 2001 and 2018. They also compared 154,887 […]
Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/health-it-systems-working-but-delays-possible-says-nhs/ Getty Images Health service IT systems are back online following Friday’s global outage, according to NHS England. However, it has warned that there may still be disruption, particularly with GP services who may need time to rebook appointments. The problems with faulty security software affected more than eight million computers worldwide, […]
Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/he-was-looking-for-blood-what-we-heard-this-week/ “He was looking for blood.” — Theodore Pappas, MD, of Duke University in North Carolina, discussing how former President Theodore Roosevelt used his military training and coughed after being shot in the chest in 1912. “The disease itself has its own fingerprint.” — Ziyad Al-Aly, MD, of the VA St. Louis […]
Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/sleep-apnea-may-accelerate-diabetic-retinopathy/ STOCKHOLM — Nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy (NPDR) had a significantly greater risk of progression and complications in patients who also had obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), a large propensity-matched cohort study showed. In patients with existing NPDR, OSA increased the likelihood of progression to proliferative DR by 75% at 1 year as compared […]
Source link : https://www.newshealth.biz/health-news/bear-eaters-beware-trichinella-larvae-still-live-in-animals-we-eat/ Claire Panosian Dunavan is a professor of medicine and infectious diseases at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and a past-president of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Did you happen to read the recent report about six Americans who ate grilled kabobs containing coiled nematode larvae? […]