by Miriam Jones Bradley, RN No man wants to hear that he has prostate cancer, but if he is diagnosed he will need to learn about the disease and how it is treated. Prostate cancer affects one in seven men. According to the American Cancer Society (ACS), it is the second most common type of cancer among...
by Kirstie Ganobsik Many men will put off going to the doctor unless they are really sick, but men’s health screenings help catch problems before symptoms appear. So, how can you tell if a health screening or preventive care appointment is right for you? The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and...
Luke Garrett | [email protected] June 4, 2023, 6:29 PM Coffee is prepared at Vigilante Coffee, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2021, in College Park, Md. A confluence of supply chain problems, drought, frost and inflation all. In moderation, scientists largely agree it’s a healthy habit. But Dr. Richard Friedman, Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Director of the Psychopharmacology Clinic...
By Chloe Xiang May 30, 2023, 2:42 pm The National Eating Disorder Association (NEDA) has taken its chatbot called Tessa offline, two days before it was set to replace human associates who ran the organization’s hotline. After NEDA workers decided to unionize in early May, executives announced that on June 1, it would be ending the...
Published June 1, 2023 Christopher Newman Editor An injector and box of Yusimry, an autoimmune disease drug developed by Coherus BioSciences and approved in the U.S. in December 2021. Courtesy of Coherus BioSciences Dive Brief: Coherus BioSciences plans to launch its copycat version of AbbVie’s autoimmune disease drug Humira next month at an 85% discount to...
by Emily Caldwell, The Ohio State University Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The results of a new clinical trial suggest that the first drug therapy to slow the progression of nearsightedness in kids could be on the horizon. The three-year study found that a daily drop in each eye of a low dose of atropine, a drug used to...
by UT Southwestern Medical Center Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Anti-obesity medications, including semaglutide (Ozempic and Wegovy), can effectively help patients manage weight regained after bariatric surgery, a study led by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers shows. The research is published in the journal Obesity. “There was very little published data on how to treat post-bariatric surgery weight gain,” said Jaime Almandoz, M.D.,...
by University of British Columbia Credit: CC0 Public Domain An international team, led by UBC Okanagan researchers, suggests a simple tweak to the first meal of the day might help people living with type 2 diabetes (T2D) better control their blood sugar levels. Dr. Barbara Oliveira conducts research with Dr. Jonathan Little’s Exercise, Metabolism and Inflammation...
Transmission electron micrograph of RSV. Credit: CDC/ Dr. Erskine Palmer / Public Domain The US drug regulator approved a second vaccine against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), its American developer Pfizer said Wednesday, a month after the authorization of the first shot against the pathogen, a leading cause of lung infections. The announcement comes only weeks...
by Bob Yirka, Medical Xpress Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A team of doctors, nurses and medical researchers affiliated with multiple institutions in Australia has found that ultrasound devices can serve as reliable diagnostic tools for children presenting symptoms of distal forearm fracture. In their study, reported in the New England Journal of Medicine, the group tested the use...
