Top 10 Highest Paying Healthcare Jobs
[embedded content] There are many different career options within healthcare, each with their own unique roles and responsibilities, but which ones pay you the most for your time? Although money should never be your primary motivation when choosing a career, it is still an important part of the decision-making process. Another important factor to consider, […]
Billie Eilish’s Tourette Syndrome
During an interview with David Letterman for his Netflix series, “My Next Guest Needs No Introduction,” singer Billie Eilish made a sudden movement, whipping her head around and opening her mouth. Letterman asked her what was going on — was it the fly that had been flying around them earlier? “No. I’m ticcing,” she said. […]
T-Cell Receptor Gene Therapy Shows Promise in Pancreatic Cancer
A novel T-cell receptor (TCR) gene therapy may be effective in treating patients with pancreatic cancer and other cancers that express the KRAS G12D mutation, researchers have found. Their case study — published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) — showed that a heavily pretreated patient with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma achieved a deep […]
Do People With Schizophrenia Have Higher Rates of Substance Abuse?
Which symptoms are shared by people with schizophrenia and substance abusers? Schizophrenia and substance abuse share similar symptoms, so they cannot be treated separately. At first glance, you may see that the two seem nothing alike, but once you look closer, you can quickly see many commonalities. The following symptoms are prevalent in both people […]
New Hope for Relief From Peanut Allergy in Kids
Latest Allergies News TUESDAY, May 31, 2022 (HealthDay News) For families of children with peanut allergy, there may be some hope. Researchers say they’re working on a treatment that can create immune system changes that put kids into remission from their allergy. A parent of a child who participated in an allergy trial in Australia […]
Increased Public Assistance Tied to Better Cancer Survival in Black Patients
CHICAGO — Overall survival (OS) in Black patients with cancer improved significantly, and racial disparities in cancer survival decreased, with increased state-level spending on public welfare programs, a large retrospective review showed. Every 10% increase in public welfare spending was associated with an 8.6% improvement in cancer survival among Black patients, almost four times greater […]
Does Sugar Make Coffee’s Benefits Less Sweet?
Drinking a few cups of coffee a day — even with sugar — was linked to a lower risk of death, new research showed. People who drank a moderate amount of coffee every day, either plain or sweetened with around a teaspoon of sugar, were about 30% less likely to die from any cause during […]
The paired perils of breast cancer and diabetes
Breast cancer and type 2 diabetes would seem to be distinctly different diseases, with commonality only in their commonality. Breast cancer is the second most diagnosed malignancy after some types of skin cancer; approximately 1 in eight U.S. women will develop invasive breast cancer over the course of their lifetime. More than 10 percent of […]
Why the Atypical Symptoms in the Latest Monkeypox Cases?
In mid-May, a young man appeared at a hospital in Montreal with a single lesion on his genitals. About a week earlier he had sexual contact with someone who tested positive for monkeypox. Over the next several days, his lesion grew in size and more lesions appeared, but they weren’t painful. He had no fever […]
Gene linked to severe learning disabilities governs cell stress response: Gene associated with Nascimento Syndrome triggers cell’s defenses against environmental attacks
A gene that has been associated with severe learning disabilities in humans has been found to also play a vital role in cells’ response to environmental stress, according to a Duke University study appearing May 24 in the journal Cell Reports. Cells are stressed by factors that may damage them, such as extreme temperatures, toxic […]