THURSDAY, Feb. 15, 2024 (HealthDay News) — The harms of smoking are many, but new research delivers evidence of another troubling type of damage: Lighting up alters your immune system, leaving ...
https://weeklymd.com/cancer/smoking-harms-immune-system-years-after-quitting/
THURSDAY, Sept. 28, 2023 (HealthDay News) – An advisory panel to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday voted resoundingly against recommending a stem cell-based experimental treatm...
https://weeklymd.com/diseases/fda-panel-says-no-to-experimental-als-drug/
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 20, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Brown rats found and analyzed near Atlanta now carry rat lungworm, researchers report. It’s a parasite that can trigger a dangerous brain encephal...
THURSDAY, Sept. 14, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Many Medicare patients can’t get help close to home for brain and nervous system issues. Nearly 1 in 5 Medicare recipients in the United States liv...
https://weeklymd.com/alzheimers/across-america-many-who-need-a-neurologist-live-too-far-from-care/
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 23, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Many people with Lou Gehrig’s disease, also called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), first start to lose the ability to move their arms and legs...
https://weeklymd.com/diseases/als-robbed-her-of-speech-but-technology-is-changing-that/
FRIDAY, July 28, 2023 (HealthDay News) — It’s well known that some viruses make the leap from animals to humans, but a new study shows the influenza strain responsible for the 2009 H1N1 pande...
https://weeklymd.com/diseases/swine-flu-strain-has-passed-between-humans-pigs-hundreds-of-times/
FRIDAY, July 7, 2023 (HealthDay News) — American industry engages in some of the same high-risk practices as other countries in keeping and selling commercial animals that have the potential fo...
https://weeklymd.com/diseases/u-s-livestock-pet-industries-pose-disease-threat-to-people/
MONDAY, June 26, 2023 (HealthDay News) — The pain and discomfort of a herniated disk can significantly impact the quality of your life. Here is what you should know about having a herniated dis...
https://weeklymd.com/arthritis-bones-joints/herniated-disk-what-it-is-symptoms-treatment/
MONDAY, June 26, 2023 (HealthDay News) — If you have had a sharp pain shooting down one leg, you may be experiencing a condition called sciatica. Here is what you need to know about sciatica, i...
https://weeklymd.com/diseases/sciatica-what-is-it-and-how-can-you-ease-the-pain/
FRIDAY, June 23, 2023 (HealthDay News) — The future for a child diagnosed with scoliosis, an abnormal curvature of the spine that typically occurs just before puberty, can feel uncertain. As a ...
https://weeklymd.com/arthritis-bones-joints/when-your-child-has-scoliosis-symptoms-treatments/