By Dennis Thompson HealthDay ReporterMONDAY, Oct. 7, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A pair of American scientists have won the 2024 Nobel Prize in medicine for their discovery of microRNA, tiny genetic molecules that play a crucial role in how genes shape the body.The research of Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun …

Benefits seen for young adults eligible for dependent care expansion

By Robin Foster HealthDay ReporterMONDAY, Oct. 7, 2024 (HealthDay News) — In findings that suggest inroads are being made in the battle against America’s opioid epidemic, new government data shows a 10% drop in overdose deaths.The statistics, compiled by states and posted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, …

Under most pessimistic scenario, one dose would avert fewer cervical cancer cases with difference of 3 percent over 100 years

By Robin Foster HealthDay ReporterMONDAY, Oct. 7, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Even as people in North Carolina continue to clean up following the devastation of Hurricane Helene, a new health danger has emerged: The massive flooding that swept away roads and towns also uprooted the underground nests of yellow jackets, …

Adjusted vaccine efficacy was 36.5 percent against the predominant subtype A(H3N2) and 37.1 percent against A(H1N1)pdm09

Clinically meaningful efficacy outcomes observed at one year maintained to two years of treatment

Referral lower for patients with mental health admissions or mental health diagnoses and with increasing age

Ovarian cancer detected with specificity >99 percent and sensitivity ranging from 69 to 100 percent depending on stage

Fear also tied to worse mental and physical health