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MONDAY, Aug. 21, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- When people suffering a stroke need a transfer to another hospital, time is of the essence. But a new study finds that most Americans in that situation face delays.The study, published recently in the Journal of the American Medical Association, looked at the issue of "door-in, door-out" times in stroke care. That is, how long do patients have to wait from the time they arrive in the emergency department (ED) until they are transferred to a hospital that can provide advanced stroke care?The answer, in most cases, was too long: About 73% of U.S. stroke patients had to wait for over two hours — or beyond the goal that experts have set for stroke transfers.The study cannot pinpoint the reasons, said senior researcher Dr. Shyam Prabhakaran, a...

MONDAY, Aug. 21, 2023 (American Heart Association News) -- Levan Singletary's alarm buzzed at 5:15 a.m., telling him to move the car for street sweeping.It was dark when Singletary, who goes by "Van," left the apartment he shares with his wife, Angela. They live in Aliso Viejo, California, near Laguna Beach. He trotted down the two flights of stairs and strode about 200 yards to the car, moved it across the street and went back upstairs.Van was planning to sleep another hour before getting up for work. Angela was already awake but still relaxing in bed."Hey, isn't this your day off?" she asked.Van usually had Mondays off, but he told her he was scheduled to work. He also had an evening job four nights a week with the city's parks and recreation department.Angela said he was working too...

MONDAY, Aug. 21, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- There's been another case of locally acquired malaria in the United States, this time in Maryland, authorities report. It's the first time this has happened in that state in 40 years. No evidence connects this case to seven locally acquired infections in Florida or another one in Texas that were previously reported, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."We are taking this very seriously and will work with local and federal health officials to investigate this case," Maryland Health Department Secretary Laura Herrera Scott said in the statement.The state health department said the patient, who is hospitalized and recovering, has not traveled outside the United States recently, NBC News reported.The patient had gone...

MONDAY, Aug. 21, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- Certain adult vaccines, including shingles and pneumonia shots, may also help seniors fight off Alzheimer's disease, new research reveals.Prior vaccination with the shingles vaccine, pneumococcus vaccine or the tetanus and diphtheria shot, with or without an added pertussis vaccine, are associated with a 25% to 30% reduced risk of Alzheimer’s disease, according to researchers from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.This study follows one published last year in which the researchers found that adults who received at least one flu shot were 40% less likely than their unvaccinated peers to develop Alzheimer’s disease.“We were wondering whether the influenza finding was specific to the flu vaccine. This data revealed...