Cancer Health

Early findings from a small clinical trial provide evidence that a new cellular immunotherapy approach may be effective in treating metastatic solid tumors. In the trial, researchers from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) genetically engineered normal white blood cells, known as lymphocytes, from each patient to produce receptors that recognize and attack their specific cancer cells. These initial findings are from people with metastatic colorectal cancer who had already undergone multiple earlier treatments. The personalized immunotherapy tumor and was able to keep the tumors from regrowing for up to seven months. The findings were published July 11, 2024, in Nature Medicine.

Immunotherapy Approach Shows Potential in Some People With Metastatic Solid Tumors

Using health data from almost 213,000 Americans who experienced reinfections, researchers have found that severe infections from the virus that causes COVID-19 tend to foreshadow similar severity of infection the next time a person contracts the disease. Additionally, scientists discovered that long COVID was more likely to occur after a first infection compared to a reinfection.

Study Suggests Reinfections With COVID-19 Virus Likely Have Similar Severity

Kentucky State

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Kentucky’s Community Actions Partnerships have announced the starts date for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) Summer Subsidy, aimed at helping Kentucky households offset summer cooling costs.

LIHEAP Summer Subsidy program to help with summer cooling costs to begin enrollment July 16

Denver, CO

David Heitz

A dangerous drug that is being mixed into fentanyl is causing those who inject it to develop a rash of sores that resembles a case of flesh-eating bacteria. People experiencing homelessness around Denver can sometimes be seen with these bloody, weeping wounds. I recently mentioned this phenomenon to a fentanyl user who told me about the xylazine connection.

Denver homeless people suffer sores as xylazine enters fentanyl supply

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Do your loved ones consult you regularly when they face a crisis? Intelligence is a branch of psychology that lacks a standard definition. Some scientists claim that it is a single ability and others state it comprises aptitudes and skills. Intelligent zodiac signs learn from their experiences and easily recognize and solve problems.

5 Most Intelligent Zodiac Signs

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Foodie in Chicago

What is more summery than an icy, sweet frozen drink? If the heat wave is getting to you, try whipping up this simple frozen strawberry lemonade. All you need is your choice of lemonade and some frozen strawberries. You can use store-bought lemonade, make your own from scratch, or a powdered version. As for strawberries, frozen ones are the easiest choice. If you'd rather use fresh, add at least two cups of ice until you reach a nice, frozen consistency.

2-Ingredient Frozen Strawberry Lemonade: Beat the Heat!

What weighs most heavily on older adults’ minds when it comes to health care?. The cost of services and therapies, and their ability to pay. Tens of millions of seniors are similarly anxious about being able to afford health care because of its expense and rising costs for housing, food, and other essentials.

Lack of Affordability Tops Older Americans’ List of Health Care Worries

Pennsylvania State

[On July 1] Governor Shapiro signed House Bill 1754 into law, securing a major win for patients across Pennsylvania. The new law will require all state-regulated health plans, including Medicaid, to cover comprehensive biomarker testing, which will enable more Pennsylvanians to access biomarker testing that can open the door to precision medicine. Targeted treatment can lead to fewer side effects, improved survival, better quality of life and potentially lower costs for patients facing cancer and other serious illnesses.

Another State Passes Law to Ensure Patients Can Access Biomarker Testing

A series of experiments with highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza (HPAI H5N1) viruses circulating in infected U.S. dairy cattle found that viruses derived from lactating dairy cattle induced severe disease in mice and ferrets when administered via intranasal inoculation. The virus from the H5N1-infected cows bound to both avian (bird) and human-type cellular receptors, but, importantly, did not transmit efficiently among ferrets exposed via respiratory droplets.

Features of H5N1 Influenza Viruses in Dairy Cows May Facilitate Infection, Transmission in Mammals

Human beings are social. We like interacting and getting other people’s attention. Still, people have mental, emotional, and physical needs which make us develop abandonment issues when they aren’t met. They change some zodiac signs’ behavior as they tackle life’s challenges.

5 Zodiac Signs With Abandonment Issues

Washington State

Timothy A Gruver

The Washington State Board of Nursing has suspended the registered nurse and advanced registered nurse practitioner licenses of Percy Lynchard III, the Washington Department of Health reported on Friday.

Nurse's Licenses Suspended for Improper Rx: Investigation Reveals Substandard Care

Earth signs are practical, grounded, and reliable. Air signs are intellectual, curious, and communicative. We know that fire signs are passionate with courage and are a massive creative force just as water signs are emotional and intuitive. So which signs are going to be the most protective of their hearts? Which ones are going to be more difficult to get to know, more difficult to get through the walls they’ve put up to protect their emotions, their feelings?

3 Zodiac Signs Who Are Protective of Their Hearts

Given the high mortality rate of acute myeloid leukemia, an aggressive cancer that forms in the developing blood cells of bone marrow, researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus are looking at how to improve treatment methods. A potential answer, they have found, may be inhibiting a gene...

Working to Improve Acute Myeloid Leukemia Therapies

[On June 27] a tenacious “mom in tennis shoes” who went on to become Chair of the U.S. Senate’s powerful Appropriations Committee stopped by Fred Hutch Cancer Center for an update on its women’s health research. Sen. Patty Murray, senior Democratic senator from Washington state, toured...

Senator Patty Murray Talks Women’s Health During Visit to Fred Hutch Cancer Center

More than 6 million older adults in the U.S. are living with dementia. But despite how common dementia is, studies suggest that signs of cognitive impairment are often missed by health care providers in busy primary care settings. This is especially true among older Black and Hispanic Americans. Early diagnosis...

Quick Test Could Help Reduce Dementia Care Disparities

[On June 26], the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a draft guidance, “Diversity Action Plans to Improve Enrollment of Participants from Underrepresented Populations in Clinical Studies,” to assist medical product sponsors in submitting Diversity Action Plans to support certain clinical studies. Diversity Action Plans are intended to increase clinical study enrollment of participants of historically underrepresented populations to help improve the data the agency receives about the patients who may potentially use the medical product.

FDA Guidance Provides New Details on Diversity Action Plans Required for Certain Clinical Studies

Marshfield, MA

Dianna Carney

Marshfield Animal Control has issued a cautionary notice to dog owners following a concerning report of canine illness at a local vet's office. The notice, shared via a Facebookvideo on the afternoon of Monday, July 8, 2024, detailed an incident where a healthy young dog passed away after exhibiting symptoms thought to be kennel cough.

Marshfield Animal Control Warns Of Potential Canine Viral Outbreak

Bedminster Township, PA

Bucks County Beacon

Something stinks in Pipersville and many local residents say the pungent smell is coming from Kingdom Provisions, LLC, a slaughterhouse located at 5960 Durham Road, where turkey buzzards are constantly perched in trees and an abundance of flies is considered commonplace.

Pipersville Residents Held Hostage By Slaughterhouse Horrors

Have you ever met someone who easily attracts people’s attention? Their presence at a party or conference lights up everyone. Some zodiac signs have a magnetic personality that makes them attractive. Their charisma convinces others that they are the right persons to seek advice from or hang out with. Magnetic personalities can be inborn or acquired as an individual grows. Which attributes do such people possess?

3 Zodiac Signs Who Have a Magnetic Personality

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Secret to Tamping Down Graft-Versus-Host-Disease May Lie in Microbial Genetics

Risk of graft-versus-host disease (GVHD), an often-debilitating and sometimes-deadly bone marrow transplant (BMT) complication, can be reduced by matching key immune genes in a transplant recipient...

Secret to Tamping Down Graft-Versus-Host-Disease May Lie in Microbial Genetics

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