WEDNESDAY, May 31, 2023 (HealthDay News) — That happy, confident spring in your step is likely a benefit imparted by human evolution, a new study argues.Humans may have evolved a spring-like arch in our feet to help us better walk and run upright, researchers say in their study, published May 30 in…

WEDNESDAY, May 31, 2023 (HealthDay News) – Providing sick leave to restaurant workers could help prevent the spread of foodborne illness because ill workers are key drivers of outbreaks at restaurants, a new government report shows.The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published data o…

WEDNESDAY, May 31, 2023 (HealthDay News) – Patients taking semaglutide for type 2 diabetes or weight loss should be careful about where they’re getting the medication, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned Tuesday.Shortages of the drug, commonly sold as Wegovy and Ozempic, has led to the maki…

WEDNESDAY, May 31, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Lack of energy for exercise is a common problem for folks with so-called long COVID.New research pinpoints the most likely reason why: diminished capacity to get the heart pumping fast enough to support the effort. The name for this is chronotropic incompe…

WEDNESDAY, May 31, 2023 (HealthDay News) — An anti-inflammatory drug that has been around for over 2,000 years might help delay a very modern problem: hip and knee replacements.That’s the suggestion of a new study finding that older adults who used the drug — called colchicine — were less likely to…

WEDNESDAY, May 31, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Girls have long been thought to have a language advantage over boys as infants. But new research finds that boys make more vocalization sounds than girls do in the early months of life.These squeals, growls and short word-like sounds such as “ba” or “aga” …

WEDNESDAY, May 31, 2023 (American Heart Association News) — Melanie Wickersheim has no memory of the first time her heart gave her trouble. She was an infant, and her pediatric myocarditis – an inflammation of the muscular walls of the heart – resolved before she was old enough to know anything had…

WEDNESDAY, May 31, 2023 (HealthDay News) — When the late Brown University researcher Catherine Kerr had cancer, she benefited from an ancient Chinese practice known as qigong and began looking into its impact on others. Now, her colleagues are building on Kerr’s work, studying how practicing qigong…

WEDNESDAY, May 31, 2023 (HealthDay News) — You’re due for a prostate exam, but you don’t know what to expect.So, what is this exam like?Regular check-ups are essential for maintaining your health, and a prostate exam is crucial to preventive care for men. Not only is it a screening test for early s…

WEDNESDAY, May 31, 2023 (HealthDay News) — When it comes to mental health, men don’t always seek help when they need it. But maybe they should. June is Men’s Mental Health Month, so here are the most common mental health conditions men experience, the symptoms that may differ in men vs. women and w…