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TUESDAY, April 6, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Beta-blocker blood pressure medications may increase the risk of heart problems in people with HIV, new research suggests.For the study, the researchers reviewed the medical records of more than 8,000 U.S. veterans with HIV who developed high blood pressure between 2000 and 2018. Of those, around 6,500 had never been diagnosed with heart or blood vessel problems. At the start of the study, patients' average age was 53. Three-quarters were taking antiretroviral medications for their HIV. Roughly eight in 10 were on one type of blood pressure drug, with 13% on beta-blockers, 11% on calcium channel blockers, 24% on angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors or angiotensin II receptor blockers (ACEi/ARBs) and 23% on thiazide or similar diuretics....

TUESDAY, April 6, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- After the pandemic, the next great health care challenge in the United States could be retaining highly trained doctors, nurses and scientists, a new study warns. Up to one in five employees at an academic medical institution are considering leaving their professions because of the strains of coping with the pandemic, according to the researchers. "It's sobering to learn that, during a time of economic recession, at least one-fifth of our workforce were considering leaving their jobs because of the severe levels of stress they were experiencing," said senior study author Angela Fagerlin. She is chair of the department of population health sciences at the University of Utah's School of Medicine, in Salt Lake City. "Many of these are people...

MONDAY, April 5, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Show your baby your love, and you'll get a kinder, gentler adult child as your reward, a new study suggests.More than 20 years ago, researchers in Israel began studying the impact on newborns of time spent in physical contact with their mothers. The investigators followed these infants, born in the mid- to late-1990s, for two decades. Now, their latest results -- based on nearly 100 young adults -- show that the maternal contact received all those years ago had a measurable impact on social brain functioning decades later, and the ability to empathize and relate to others."What proximity to the mother's body did was enabling mother and infants to be more in tune, more in sync with one another throughout the 20 years of their development. That...

MONDAY, April 5, 2021 (American Heart Association News) -- Bariatric surgery can be a difficult decision for treating obesity, as patients and their doctors weigh the risks and side effects of the procedure against the benefits of the weight loss that usually follows.Heart disease adds another factor to the risk-benefit analysis. Is the surgery a good idea for people who already have cardiovascular problems?New research published Monday in the American Heart Association journal Circulation suggests that it is. A study in Canada demonstrated that participants with cardiovascular disease and severe obesity (a body mass index of 40 or higher) who underwent bariatric surgery had fewer major cardiovascular events than people with similar conditions who did not have the surgery. Fewer of...