Category: 5. Health
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Common breast cancer treatments may speed aging process
A new study led by investigators at the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center has revealed that common breast cancer treatments, including chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery, may accelerate the biological aging process in breast cancer survivors. The findings, published in the… Continue Reading
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Harnessing natural killer T cells to advance cancer immunotherapy for solid tumors
In the fight against cancer, chimeric antigen receptor T cell (CAR-T) therapy has achieved notable success in treating blood cancers. However, it has been largely ineffective against solid tumors. Now, a newly published study by UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers demonstrates… Continue Reading
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Study explores novel therapeutic treatment for glioblastoma
Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most lethal brain tumor, with a median survival rate of merely 12-16 months after diagnosis. Despite surgical, radiation and chemotherapy treatments, the two-year survival rate for GBM patients is less than 10%. Two major challenges hinder effective GBM treatment: … Continue Reading
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Brain’s waste-clearance pathways revealed | ScienceDaily
Scientists have long theorized about a network of pathways in the brain that are believed to clear metabolic proteins that would otherwise build up and potentially lead to Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia. But they had never definitively revealed this network in people — until now. A new… Continue Reading
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Macaques give birth more easily than women: No maternal mortality at birth
An international research team led by the University of Vienna and the Medical University of Vienna has used long-term demographic data from Japanese macaques — a monkey species within the family of Old World monkeys — to show that, unlike humans, there is no maternal mortality in these… Continue Reading
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Patient Credit Balances – The Lurking Danger
I thought this an interesting topic for this missive. In the scheme of the overall revenue cycle (RC), credit balances receive little attention though they are an important cog in the financial well-being of a healthcare enterprise. If not managed, credit balances can haunt clinics both… Continue Reading
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Menstrual cycle luteal phase lengths are not ‘fixed’ at 13-14 days
The current expectation is that every ovulatory menstrual cycle will have a luteal phase (the time from egg released until the next flow) that lasts approximately 14 days. It is simple, ovulation covers half of the expected, classical 28-day menstrual cycle. That fits with another current… Continue Reading
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Should men and women eat different breakfasts to lose weight?
It’s not a bad thing if you pick a toasted bagel for breakfast, while your partner chooses eggs. In fact, according to a new study from the University of Waterloo, that difference could help you lose some weight. The study, which employed a mathematical model of men’s and women’s metabolisms,… Continue Reading
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How The Hospital Industrial Complex Robs Poor Patients
“The ongoing abuse of 340B and Medicaid discounts is enriching huge hospital conglomerates at the … [+] expense of patients, employers, state governments, poor communities, and taxpayers,” writes Pipes. getty Pharmaceutical leader Johnson & Johnson recently unleashed a firestorm in Washington… Continue Reading
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Common consumer product chemicals now tied to cardiac electrical changes
Environmental phenols are found in a wide range of common consumer products. They include preservatives in packaged foods, parabens in shampoos and bisphenol A (BPA) in plastic dishware, so humans have broad exposure to them, day in and day out. Some of these environmental phenols are known to… Continue Reading