Latest Health News

FRIDAY, Jan. 28, 2022 (American Heart Association News) -- Having been a flight engineer during operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, Jeffrey Morse knew resilience.He knew headaches and migraines from his past.But in the summer of 2012, it felt like someone was ripping the skin open on the back side of his neck with searing pain pounding in his head. This was a migraine like no other in his past and the pain was much worse. Light hitting his eyes made it even more excruciating.Wearing dark sunglasses, he drove to visit his general practitioner in Mooresville, North Carolina.The doctor could tell right away that Morse was in severe distress. An elevated heart rate and blood pressure confirmed it.Within the hour, Morse was in an ambulance on the way to the emergency room. Tests...

FRIDAY, Jan. 28, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- When delivering a liver cancer diagnosis, Dr. Thomas Marron pulls no punches: "Liver cancer is one of the deadliest cancers," he tells patients.Jeffrey Foster heard a similar message loud and clear when he was first diagnosed by another doctor with hepatocellular carcinoma — the most common type of liver cancer — back in 2020.At the time, the 68-year-old retired vet was told by his surgeon that "cutting out the mass then found on my liver doesn't mean the cancer wouldn't come back."But at the same time, "the surgeon also told me about Dr. Marron and his immunotherapy trial," Foster recalled. Marron, an associate professor of medicine, hematology and medical oncology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, had begun...

FRIDAY, Jan. 28, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- With a major winter storm bearing down on most of the U.S. Northeast, making a plan to keep your family warm and safe if power is knocked out is crucial.That's true for any kind of big weather event, one expert said. “Preparing in advance is especially important as climate change causes more extreme weather,” Dr. Carl Baum said in an American Academy of Pediatrics news release. “If you are stuck without heat for an extended period of time, consider bringing children to a neighborhood warming house or shelter, and be sure to bring face masks to protect against COVID-19," said Baum, a professor of pediatrics at Yale School of Medicine.Here are some of his other suggestions: If you have a gas or propane generator, operate it well outside...

FRIDAY, Jan. 28, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Physical therapy for knee arthritis tends to cost patients more out-of-pocket and involves a lot more hassle than a quick steroid shot to soothe an aching joint.But in the long run, physical therapy is at least as cost-effective as steroid injections and is more likely to provide longer-term relief, a new study concludes."Even though maybe the initial costs of physical therapy are a little bit higher over the course of the year, when you look at all the knee-related costs over the year, the amount of benefit you got from physical therapy made it more cost-effective," explained lead researcher Daniel Rhon, director of the Primary Care Musculoskeletal Research Center & Clinical Scientist Center for the Intrepid at Brooke Army Medical Center in...