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Mayo Clinic Minute: 3 ways to prevent head and neck cancer

MAYO CLINIC NEWS NETWORK – Throat cancer is one of the fastest-growing cancers, and it is often linked to HPV. Oropharyngeal cancer, or throat cancer, is a type of head and neck cancer that can be divided into two subgroups: HPV-associated cancers and non-HPV-associated cancers. And depending on the type of subgroup, they are treated differently. Dr. Katharine Price, a medical oncologist with the Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center, says there are three ways to reduce your risks and help prevent head...

PCOS symptoms are still difficult for doctors to diagnose and treat. Here’s why

Polycystic ovary syndrome was first identified some 90 years ago, yet there are no FDA-approved drugs to treat the complex hormonal condition.

A doctor with lung cancer got a lifesaving treatment after seeing an NBC News report

NBC NEWS – As a pulmonologist, Dr. Gary Gibbon never expected to be diagnosed with lung disease himself, much less be in need of a new set of lungs. “I had no previous medical history of any significance. I was on no medication at all on a regular basis,” Gibbon, of Santa Monica, California, told NBC News. When he developed a cough and then lost weight, Gibbon got a chest X-ray and CT scan of his...

US tuberculosis cases rise for third year in a row: CDC

THE HILL – Tuberculosis rates in the U.S. rose by 16 percent in 2023, marking the third year that cases went up following nearly 30 years of decline. In the most recent Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the number of TB cases in 2023 totaled at 9,615, a jump of 1,295 over 2022. The last time annual TB cases in the U.S. were higher than 9,500 was...

Untangling the threads of early onset dementia

MAYO CLINIC NEWS NETWORK – Changes in personality, behavior and language are hallmarks of frontotemporal dementia (FTD), the most common form of dementia in patients under the age of 65, which is associated with degeneration of the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain. Researchers have known that a less common protective variant of a gene called TMEM106B may slow disease progression, and now they have new insight into how parts of the protein produced...

People in Republican-voting states more likely to report Covid-19 vaccine side effects, study says

STAT NEWS – People in Republican-voting states were more likely to report adverse events after receiving a Covid-19 vaccination than people living in Democratic-leaning states, a new analysis finds, suggesting that how people view their post-vaccine side effects or decide whether to report them may be shaped by their political views. The cross-sectional study, published Friday in JAMA Network Open, looked at more than 620,000 entries in the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System from 2020...

China has a big problem with super gonorrhea, study finds

As the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention bluntly notes: "Little now stands between us and untreatable gonorrhea."

Sex in the Dark: a Q&A Event with Sex Experts Student Health Services

BOSTON UNIVERSITY – Sexually transmitted diseases and infections are on the rise. According to a recent report by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there were more than 2.5 million cases of syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia, and syphilis reported in the United States in 2022. Syphilis is at its highest levels since the 1950s. To make sure that students are in the know when it comes to safe sex, BU Student Health Services Wellness &...

COVID Linked to Lower IQ, Poor Memory and Other Negative Impacts on Brain Health

"COVID-19 poses a serious risk to brain health, even in mild cases, and the effects are now being revealed at the population level," clinical epidemiologist Ziyad Al-Aly said

Overdosing on Chemo: A Common Gene Test Could Save Hundreds of Lives Each Year

KFF HEALTH NEWS – One January morning in 2021, Carol Rosen took a standard treatment for metastatic breast cancer. Three gruesome weeks later, she died in excruciating pain from the very drug meant to prolong her life. Rosen, a 70-year-old retired schoolteacher, passed her final days in anguish, enduring severe diarrhea and nausea and terrible sores in her mouth that kept her from eating, drinking, and, eventually, speaking. Skin peeled off her body. Her kidneys and...

Texas Medical Board won’t yield on protecting the unborn

DALLAS (AP) — A Texas medical panel on Friday rebuffed calls to list specific exceptions to one of the most restrictive abortions bans in the U.S., which physicians say is dangerously unclear and has forced women with serious pregnancy complications to leave the state. The head of the Texas Medical Board also said that wider issues surrounding the law — such as the lack of exceptions in cases of rape or incest — were beyond...

Linda Lorraine Bean Dies At 82

Linda Lorraine Bean (April 28, 1941 – March 23, 2024) was an American businessperson and donor. As a candidate of the Republican Party, Bean ran unsuccessfully for the United States Congress in 1988 and 1992. She was the granddaughter of Leon Leonwood Bean and an heiress to the L.L.Bean company. Congressional campaigns Bean ran twice for Congress, in 1988 and 1992. In 1988, Bean sought the Republican nomination for Maine's 1st district of the House to challenge...

Eli Lilly warns of temporary short supply of two insulin products

CNN – Drugmaker Eli Lilly warned this week that two of its formulations of insulin would be temporarily out of stock through the beginning of April, citing a “brief delay in manufacturing.” The 10-milliliter vials of Humalog and insulin lispro injection will be in short supply at wholesalers and some pharmacies, Lilly said in a statement posted online Wednesday. The company said that prefilled pen versions of those medicines are still available in the US and...

I quit porn and became a nurse — here’s why I’m going back to making X-rated movies

“There’s nothing like being on set, I absolutely love it…. there’s something really magical about making movies,” Summers swooned. “I love the creative process.”

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