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Young Gay Latinos See Rising Share of New HIV Cases, Leading to Call for Targeted Funding
Four months after seeking asylum in the U.S., Fernando Hermida began coughing and feeling tired. He thought it was a cold. Then sores appeared in his groin and he would soak his bed with sweat. He took a test. On New Year’s Day 2022, at age 31, Hermida learned he...
FDA Authorizes Sale of Menthol E-cigarettes
On Friday, June 21, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) dealt a blow to public health by authorizing the sale of four menthol e-cigarettes manufactured by NJOY LLC. Previously, the FDA had issued marketing denial orders for every flavored e-cigarette product it has reviewed, previously finding the applicants failed to produce reliable evidence their product benefits public health and had not yet authorized any menthol flavored e-cigarettes.
New Effort to Include People With HIV or on PrEP in Clinical Trials [VIDEO]
When clinical trial researchers write their guidelines and decide on eligible participants, most continue to copy and paste outdated boilerplate language from the early days of the AIDS epidemic. As a result, clinical trials exclude people living with HIV as well as those who are HIV negative but take antiretrovirals as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to prevent HIV. Similarly, LGBTQ people—also referred to as SGMs for “sexual and gender minorities”—are underrepresented in clinical studies.
Healthy Recipe: Quinoa With Roasted Ratatouille
This is truly one delicious and nutritious dish. Quinoa is one of the few grains that can boast of being a complete protein. Sheet-pan roasting the veggies makes for a light, flavorful version of ratatouille, the classic French summer vegetable stew. Choose small, firm zucchini and the small, slender Asian eggplants if you can find them — they don’t need to be salted and sweated before cooking. If you like spicy food, swap the red pepper for a couple of dark green poblano peppers. For even cooking, cut the vegetables into similar-sized pieces. As the seasons change, you can change up the roasted vegetables and herbs you use. It’ll always be good!
Twice-Yearly Lenacapavir PrEP Prevents HIV in Women
The twice-yearly HIV capsid inhibitor lenacapavir demonstrated 100% efficacy for preventing acquisition of the virus in a large study of young cisgender women in Africa, Gilead Sciences announced yesterday. The PURPOSE 1 trial showed that lenacapavir pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), administered by subcutaneous injection once every six months, significantly reduced HIV...
FDA Approves Two First-Line Immunotherapies for Endometrial Cancer
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved two immune checkpoint inhibitor regimens as initial treatment for people with advanced or recurrent endometrial cancer. Merck’s Keytruda (pembrolizumab) and AstraZeneca’s Imfinzi (durvalumab) both led to improvement in progression-free survival when added to standard chemotherapy in Phase III trials. Endometrial...
How a Black Woman Is Coping With an “Old White Man’s Disease”
In the months leading up to November 2022, Carlette Winfrey was getting ready to celebrate the 40th anniversary of pledging her college sorority. She and her sorority sisters — many of whom she hadn’t seen in years — planned to meet up at the homecoming game at Grambling State University.
¿Cómo Se Dice? California Loops In AI To Translate Health Care Information
Tener gripe, tener gripa, engriparse, agriparse, estar agripado, estar griposo, agarrar la gripe, coger la influenza. In Spanish, there are at least a dozen ways to say someone has the flu — depending on the country. Translating “cardiac arrest” into Spanish is also tricky because “arresto” means getting detained...
Biden Leans Into Health Care, Asking Voters To Trust Him Over Trump
Angling to tap into strong support for the sweeping health law he helped pass 14 years ago, one of President Joe Biden’s latest reelection strategies is to remind voters that former President Donald Trump tried to repeal the Affordable Care Act. “Folks, he’s coming for your health care, and...
Americans With HIV Are Living Longer. Federal Spending Isn’t Keeping Up.
Malcolm Reid recently marked the anniversary of his HIV diagnosis on Facebook. “Diagnosed with HIV 28 years ago, AND TODAY I THRIVE,” he wrote in a post in April, which garnered dozens of responses. Reid, an advocate for people with HIV, said he’s happy he made it to...
Discrimination May Accelerate Aging in Black Women
Racial discrimination may accelerate aging in Black women and increase their risk for heart disease and diabetes, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open. About 40% of Black adults reported experiencing at least one act of discrimination in the last year. Discrimination—whether overt or subtle—can be a significant source of stress for individuals.
Farmworkers Face High-Risk Exposures to Bird Flu, but Testing Isn’t Reaching Them
Farmworkers face some of the most intense exposures to the bird flu virus, but advocates say many of them would lack resources to fall back on if they became ill. As of May 30, only three people in the United States had tested positive after being exposed to a wave of bird flu spreading among cows. Those people, dairy farm workers in Texas and Michigan, experienced eye irritation. One of them also had a cough and sore throat.
San Francisco Tries Tough Love by Tying Welfare to Drug Rehab
Raymond Llano carries a plastic bag with everything he owns in one hand, a cup of coffee in the other, and the flattened cardboard box he uses as a bed under his arm as he waits in line for lunch at Glide Memorial Church in San Francisco. At 55, he hasn’t had a home for 15 years, since he lost a job at Target.
Infectious H5N1 Influenza Virus in Raw Milk Rapidly Declines With Heat Treatment
The amount of infectious H5N1 influenza viruses in raw milk rapidly declined with heat treatment in laboratory research conducted by scientists at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health. However, small, detectable amounts of infectious virus remained in raw milk samples...
Most Eligible U.S. Adults Not Getting Screened for Lung Cancer
A new study led by American Cancer Society (ACS) researchers shows less than one-in-five eligible individuals in the United States were up-to-date (UTD) with recommended lung cancer screening (LCS). The screening uptake was much lower in persons without health insurance or usual source of care and in Southern states with the highest lung cancer burden. The findings are published June 10 in JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) Internal Medicine.
Urged on by LGBTQ+ Activists, California Cities Weigh Stricter Smoking Rules
California has long been at the forefront of the fight against smoking, but some local officials in the San Francisco Bay Area, backed by activists who are especially concerned about high rates of smoking in the LGBTQ+ community, are spearheading proposals to further restrict how tobacco is sold and where it is smoked.
Progress Against Anal Cancer Opens Door to Screening and Prevention
When Daniel G. Garza was diagnosed with anal cancer a decade ago, he had never heard of the disease. “Do you mean colorectal cancer?” he asked the doctor. The doctor explained that Garza had a tumor on his anal sphincter. At the time, Garza had been living with HIV for 14 years. But he did not know that gay and bisexual men, especially those with HIV, have an increased risk of anal cancer.
Gene Variants and Breast Cancer Risk in Black Women
Breast cancer is the most often diagnosed cancer in many parts of the world, including the U.S. More than 310,000 new cases are expected nationwide this year. Black women tend to develop breast cancer at a younger age than White women. Black women are also more likely than Whites to die from the disease, and they are twice as likely to develop an aggressive subtype called triple-negative breast cancer. But despite the increased risks faced by women of African descent, most large-scale genetic studies of breast cancer to date have focused on women of European ancestry.
New Definition for Long COVID Could Aid in Consistent Diagnosis, Documentation and Treatment
A new National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report says the federal government, state and local authorities, clinicians, medical societies and organizations, public health practitioners, employers, educators, and others should adopt a new definition for “Long COVID” — that it is an infection-associated chronic condition that occurs after COVID-19 infection and is present for at least three months as a continuous, relapsing and remitting, or progressive disease state that affects one or more organ systems.
Healthy Recipe: Kale & Feta Cake
This tasty frittata is called a “cake” mainly because it’s layered in the middle with feta. It’s really more of a flourless torte, but whatever it’s called, this is a delicious, nutritious way to turn the superfood kale into a crowd-pleasing main course. It’s easy to make, even when you’re feeling tired. All in all, it takes the cake.
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