Opinion | How to Make Meaningful Moves Toward Health Equity in Cancer Care
“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in healthcare is the most shocking and inhumane.” — Martin Luther King, Jr. In 2023, marginalized communities continue to face disparities and barriers to accessible care. Among women diagnosed with breast cancer, Black women are still approximately 40% more likely to die, and research suggests that the LGBTQ+ […]
How To Make The Most Of A Well-Child Visit With Your Pediatrician
School health forms, vaccinations, growth charts: These are the familiar components of an annual well-child visit with your pediatrician. But your child’s provider has a wealth of expertise in other topics, too. They can help you problem-solve and make decisions regarding nutrition, sleep, education and more. Advertisement New data from the C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital […]
Anti-CD20 Agent Gains Approval for Multiple Sclerosis
Ublituximab (Briumvi), a monoclonal antibody targeting CD20, was approved for relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis (MS), including clinically isolated syndrome, relapsing-remitting disease, and active secondary progressive disease, TG Therapeutics announced. The FDA’s decision was based on two identical phase III trials of people with relapsing MS, ULTIMATE I and ULTIMATE II. At 96 weeks, ublituximab […]
Vegans who lift weights may have stronger bones than other people on a plant-based diet: Vegans and omnivores who do resistance training may have similar bone structure
People on a plant-based diet who do strength training as opposed to other forms of exercise such as biking or swimming may have stronger bones than other people on a vegan diet, according to new research published in the Endocrine Society’s Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. About 6 percent of people in the United […]
Bird communities threatened by urbanization
Urbanization is one of the most drastic forms of land-use change, and its negative consequences on biodiversity have been studied extensively in temperate countries such as Germany. However, less research has been conducted in tropical regions from the Global South, where most of the ongoing and future urbanization hotspots are located, and little is known […]
New dietary treatment for epilepsy well tolerated and reduced seizures, study finds
The first clinical trial of a new dietary treatment for children and adults with severe forms of epilepsy, co-developed by UCL researchers and based on the ketogenic diet, has been successfully completed. For the study, published in Brain Communications, clinicians evaluated the use of K.Vita®, (also known as Betashot), an oral liquid dietary supplement developed […]