Opinion | ‘Colonoscopy Is Not Effective if You Don’t Do It’: What We Heard This Week
“Colonoscopy is not effective if you don’t do it.” — George Chang, MD, of MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, responding to findings from a European colonoscopy trial that suggested potentially less benefit from colon cancer screening than expected. “Our country was founded on a philosophy of individual liberty, and in many spheres of life […]
$165M Settlement for Victims of Columbia Ob/Gyn’s Sexual Abuse
Late last week, Columbia University Irving Medical Center and NewYork-Presbyterian announced a settlement with 147 women who had alleged that gynecologist Robert Hadden, MD, sexually abused them over a nearly 20-year period. The settlement establishes a $165 million fund to be distributed among the former patients, which include minors. According to court documents, the victims […]
Selena Gomez Says She’s ‘Grateful To Be Alive’ In Emotional Trailer For New Documentary
Selena Gomez is putting her mental health front and center in her new Apple TV+ documentary. On Monday, the “Only Murders in the Building” star acknowledged World Mental Health Day (Oct. 10) by unveiling a trailer for “Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me.” According to press notes, the documentary follows the actor and singer’s “six-year […]
TikTok’s ‘Hot Girl Walk’ Isn’t What You Think. Here’s What You Need To Take One.
Contrary to its name, TikTok’s latest trend, the “Hot Girl Walk,” doesn’t center on being hot or a girl. Rather, it’s an act of self-care that has everything to do with goal-setting, accessible exercise and improved mental health –– all while cultivating a little self esteem in the process. When HuffPost previously spoke to Mia […]
TikTok’s ‘Hot Girl Walk’ Isn’t What You Think. Here’s What You Need To Take One.
Contrary to its name, TikTok’s latest trend, the “Hot Girl Walk,” doesn’t center on being hot or a girl. Rather, it’s an act of self-care that has everything to do with goal-setting, accessible exercise and improved mental health –– all while cultivating a little self esteem in the process. When HuffPost previously spoke to Mia […]
The Immune Signature of Long COVID
In this exclusive video, Harlan Krumholz, MD, director of the Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation at Yale University and Yale New Haven Hospital in Connecticut, discusses a recent preprint on distinguishing long COVID through immune profiling. Krumholz, a cardiologist, is also the Harold H. Hines, Jr. Professor of Medicine and a professor in the […]
Researchers discover new leukemia-killing compounds: Potential of mitochondria-targeted chemotherapies
Researchers from Rice University and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have discovered potential new drugs that work in concert with other drugs to deliver a deadly one-two punch to leukemia. The potential drugs are still years away from being tested in cancer patients, but a recently published study in the journal Leukemia […]
Could used beer yeast be the solution to heavy metal contamination in water? A study shows that yeast, an abundant waste product from breweries, can filter out even trace amounts of lead
A new analysis by researchers at MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms (CBA) has found that inactive yeast could be effective as an inexpensive, abundant, and simple material for removing lead contamination from drinking water supplies. The study shows that this approach can be efficient and economic, even down to part-per-billion levels of contamination. Serious […]
High fat diet, unregulated athletic exercise endurance enhancers linked to risk of pancreatic cancer
Researchers at the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center have found a cell nuclear receptor activated by high fat diets and synthetic substances in unregulated athletic performance enhancers fuels the progression of precancerous pancreas lesions into pancreatic cancer. Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma is a highly lethal form of cancer with rising occurrence, and strategies to prevent […]
Ultrasound-guided microbubbles boost immunotherapy efficacy: New platform to improve both antitumor immune responses and responses to checkpoint inhibitors
Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have developed an ultrasound-guided cancer immunotherapy platform that generates systemic antitumor immunity and improves the therapeutic efficacy of immune checkpoint blockade. The findings from the preclinical study were published today in Nature Nanotechnology. As the first-of-its-kind platform, the Microbubble-assisted UltraSound-guided Immunotherapy of Cancer (MUSIC) approach […]