NEW YORK — Could skipping a few meals each week help you fight cancer? It might sound far-fetched, but new research suggests that one type of intermittent fasting could actually boost your body’s natural ability to defeat cancer. A team of scientists at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center...

Intermittent fasting may supercharge ‘natural killer’ cells to destroy cancer

COLUMBIA, Mo. — All cancers are difficult to treat, and blood cancers are among the trickiest to handle. However, a common high blood pressure drug is helping to weaken leukemia’s defenses against chemotherapy. Researchers from the University of Missouri School of Medicine are using losartan in a new...

Common high blood pressure drug losartan boosts chemotherapy’s ability to beat leukemia

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	There’s no doubt that women’s healthcare has been seriously understudied and underfunded for far too long. Many of us have heard terms like uterine fibroids and ovarian cysts, but few of us — unless we’ve personally experienced them — know how to identify symptoms or understand treatment options.Cancer Specialist Reveals a Rough Timeline for When Kate Middleton May End Her Preventive Chemotherapy




	When it comes to fibroids, cysts, lumps, and tumors, knowledge is power. When our health is compromised, it’s easy to feel powerless. Knowing when to see a doctor, what questions to ask, and being clear about options is crucial...

How to Tell the Difference Between Cysts, Fibroids, Polyps, & Tumors, According to Doctors

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Scientists have found that people missing a specific blood group due to a genetic variant may be genetically predisposed to having obesity or overweight.

Missing a specific blood group may genetically predispose people to obesity

Some weird signs of iron deficiency include developing a craving for ice or clay, an overwhelming urge to move the legs, and hair loss. However, iron deficiency can cause a range of symptoms. Iron deficiency describes when a person does not have enough iron in their body. When iron levels...

5 weird signs of iron deficiency

He explained in a video post, “The day after that I just went downhill [with a] swollen knee, although I thought that was because my knee was injured from a stack when I was in Hobart running some trails. “[I had] really bad body aches and sweat, and everything...

38-Year-Old Man’s Swollen Knee and Body Aches Led To Stage 4 Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma Diagnosis, Now He’s Urging Others To Get Symptoms Checked As Cancer ‘Doesn’t Discriminate’

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By 2050, 60% of US adults could be affected by heart disease and stroke, according to a June 2024 announcement from the American Heart Association (AHA). “The last decade has seen a surge of cardiovascular risk factors such as uncontrolled high blood pressure, diabetes and obesity, each of which raises the risks of developing heart disease and stroke,” Dhruv S. Kazi, MD, MS, associate director of the Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Center for Outcomes Research in Cardiology and director of the cardiac critical care unit at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, says in the AHA’s press release. So how can we manage those risk factors?

New Research: If You’re Deficient in This Vitamin, It Could Raise Your Stroke Risk by 28%

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), smoking remains the leading cause of preventable death in the US, with 28.3 million US adults currently dealing with a smoking habit. Decades of research show smoking can contribute to a host of health problems, including lung cancer, heart disease, stroke, fertility issues and more.

New Research: Cigarette Smoking Could Raise Your Risk of This Surprising Cancer by 30%

Lincoln Cared More About Preserving the Union Than Ending Slavery. Lincoln’s main goal during his presidency, which began just before the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, was to preserve the Union — not to free slaves. Christopher Bonner, a historian at the University of Maryland, says...

5 Ugly Abraham Lincoln Facts No One Likes to Talk About

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This Zodiac sign is the least intelligent of the Zodiac. Is it Yours?

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Unearth the goldmine in your vinyl collection with these 8 records that could make you a fortune.

8 Vinyl Records That Are Worth a Fortune

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The deceased listed here are Irish-born men and women who have died in England and Wales since 1997. For one reason or another, the next of kin could not be identified by the authorities.

If you have one of 300 last names you could be the heir to an enormous unclaimed fortune

Adeno-associated viruses (AAVs) are to gene therapy what smiling delivery trucks are to Amazon — i.e., they’re the reliable standard for therapeutic delivery. And just like Amazon, a company that used to exclusively deliver books, has moved into the business of delivering anything you can imagine (from furniture to groceries and electronics) so too are AAVs being adapted for broader use beyond monogenic disorders — particularly, in cancer.

Building A Universal AAV For Cancer

The findings emphasize the urgent need for physicians to ask about aspirin use. Despite guidelines advising against it, many older adults continue to use aspirin for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease, highlighting the need for more physician involvement in medication management. A study encompassing approximately 150 million adults each year...

Millions at Risk: Alarm Raised Over Widespread Aspirin Use in Older Adults

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Researchers at the University of California San Diego discovered that an unusually large brain could be the first sign of autism, potentially detectable in as early as the first trimester. Some children with autism face severe, enduring challenges including developmental delays, social difficulties, and possibly an inability to speak. Meanwhile,...

Scientists May Have Discovered the First Sign of Autism: An Unusually Large Brain

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Prince William is very much still next in line for the throne, but that hasn’t stopped him from making plans for when he does inherit the crown. According to Richard Eden, royal expert and reporter for The Daily Mail, he’s planning some &...

Prince William Will Reportedly Remove Princess Charlotte And Prince Louis As Royals: 'Radical Plans To Reshape The Monarchy'

Dementia is a condition that affects cognitive abilities, but memory is not the first thing to go, and there are symptoms that appear before memory loss

Five early dementia symptoms you'll notice before memory loss

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The FBI has seen a rise in scams targeting timeshare owners. In this kind of scam, criminals con these part-time property owners into shelling out hefty sums of cash, all under false pretenses related to their timeshare properties.

FBI warns that Mexican cartels are targeting Americans with timeshare scams

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The New 65: Turning 65 Is Not What It Used to Be

Review the multiple uses of metformin. A recent article on the multiple uses of metformin brings up the important topic of repurposing medications.1 Repurposing has been around since the advent of modern medicine. One prominent example is the use of chlorpromazine (CPZ) as an antipsychotic.2 Chlorpromazine was first synthesized in 1951 as a potentiator of general anesthesia.2 The psychiatric benefits were found later by Henri Laborit, a surgeon in the French army. He was doing research with artificial hibernation in prevention of surgical shock.2 Laborit employed the drug as an adjunct to anesthetics.2 He observed that CPZ at doses of 50 mg to 100 mg produced a lowering of body temperature, sedation, and disinterest without loss of consciousness.2 He was able to persuade his colleagues in the military hospital in Paris to try CPZ in the treatment of one of their patients who was experiencing psychotic agitation.2 Laborit hypothesized that since cooling with water had been used to treat agitation in France, the drug would have a similar effect.2 The mechanism of action was not fully known, and it was thought that it worked in controlling agitation because of its cooling effect and induction of “artificial hibernation” in patients.2 The pharmacological mechanism was not fully understood until many years later and the way it has impacted the practice of psychiatry needs no introduction. These “happy accidents” in medicine have played a vital role in getting where we are right now compared with just 50 years ago. This begs the question, are we onto another “happy accident” with metformin? There is an accumulating body of evidence that metformin may have benefits in aging that are beyond its effect on glycemic control.3.

Metformin, Inflammation, the Gut Microbiome, and Health Span: Connecting the Dots

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Groundbreaking study uncovers thousands of cancer-causing genetic variants

HINXTON, United Kingdom — In a landmark discovery, scientists have identified over 5,000 genetic variants that enable certain cancers to thrive, potentially revolutionizing cancer diagnosis and...

Groundbreaking study uncovers thousands of cancer-causing genetic variants

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