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Congress Considers Easing Regulations on Air Transport of Donated Organs
What do kidney and pancreas transplants have to do with airplane regulations?. Tucked into the hundreds of pages of legislative language to reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration is a provision to change the life-or-death process by which human organs are flown commercially from donor to recipient. But where on the...
Emerging Tick Bite-Associated Meat Allergy Potentially Affects Thousands
The CDC reports that between 2010 and 2022, there were more than 110,000 suspected cases of alpha-gal syndrome identified. However, because the diagnosis of alpha-gal syndrome requires a positive diagnostic test and a clinical exam, and some individuals with alpha-gal syndrome may not get tested, it is estimated that as many as 450,000 people might have been affected by AGS in the United States, according to two reports issued today by the CDC in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
Childhood Immunization Begins Recovery After COVID-19 Backslide
Global immunization services reached 4 million more children in 2022 compared to the previous year, as countries stepped up efforts to address the historic backsliding in immunization caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. According to data published today [July 18] by the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF, in 2022, 20.5...
Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo Selected as Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Lawrence A. Tabak, DDS, PhD, acting director for the National Institutes of Health, has named Jeanne M. Marrazzo, MD, as director of NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). Dr. Marrazzo is currently the director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Alabama at...
Are People With HIV at Risk for Severe Mpox?
People living with HIV are not more likely to be hospitalized with severe mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) unless they have advanced immune suppression, underscoring the importance of prompt antiretroviral treatment, according to study findings presented at the International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Science (#IAS2023). To that end, experts...
If Diet Influences Cancer, Then What Makes a Healthy Diet?
Ongoing research on how diet influences cancer has produced new perspectives on what makes a healthy diet. You’re probably hearing the term “diet quality” more often as researchers and health professionals need new ways to study how nutrition supports health. Years ago, research on diet’s influence on...
Barriers to Mammography Screening Persist for Black Women
Black women have disproportionately higher rates of breast cancer compared with white women, yet many experience barriers to annual screening mammograms, according to new research published in Medical Research Archives. Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in Black women, according to the American Cancer Society. What’s more,...
Black Cancer Survivors Face Increased Risk and Mortality From Heart Disease
A new study from researchers at the American Cancer Society (ACS) found that Black cancer survivors in the United States experience a higher risk of developing cardiovascular disease (CVD) compared with White cancer survivors. The research showed Black cancer survivors carry from 30% up to a three-fold higher mortality risk from CVD, depending on the type of cancer that was diagnosed. Differences in neighborhood socioeconomic status and health insurance between White and Black cancer survivors explained the disparities in cardiovascular death rates between populations, according to the study authors. The paper was published [July 20] in the International Journal of Epidemiology.
NASH Is Major Cause of Liver Cancer Among Transplant Candidates
Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), an advanced form of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), is the leading cause of liver cancer among people on the liver transplant waiting list in the United States, according to study findings published in Clinical Gastroenterology & Hepatology. Over time, fatty liver disease, viral hepatitis and heavy...
NIH Launches Long COVID Clinical Trials Through RECOVER Initiative
Today, the National Institutes of Health launched and is opening enrollment for Phase 2 clinical trials that will evaluate at least four potential treatments for long COVID, with additional clinical trials to test at least seven more treatments expected in the coming months. Treatments will include drugs, biologics, medical devices and other therapies.
National Cancer Plan: Deliver Optimal Care
This is the sixth in a series of articles about the goals of the National Cancer Institute’s National Cancer Plan, designed to support the aims of President Joe Biden’s Cancer Moonshot initiative to end cancer as we know it. The plan is split into eight goals, one of which is to deliver optimal care. For more, see Part 1: Eliminating Inequities, Part 2: Preventing Cancer, Part 3: Detect Cancers Early, Part 4: Developing Effective Treatments and Part 5: Engage Every Person.
Not Just the “What” But Also the “How Much” You Eat Matters
In the age of intermittent fasting, plant-based diets and Whole30, fad diets boast about their long-term health benefits, while simultaneously overcomplicating what it means to have a healthy lifestyle. The reality is, it’s hard to precisely measure the accuracy of these claims, let alone, keep even the most devout ketotarian from reaching for that pasta or chocolate cake long enough to be able to quantify long-term effects on chronic disease and lifespan. Fortunately, we likely don’t need some restrictive diet to experience healthful benefits and many of these can be achieved through maintaining a simple energy balance, where energy in equals energy out. In other words, energy balance is achieved when energy consumed through foods and beverages (energy in) is equal to the energy burned through basal metabolic functions and physical activity (energy out).
Hepatitis B and C: A Closer Look at NIAID Research to Accelerate Elimination
Viral hepatitis is an inflammatory liver disease caused by infection with any of the known hepatitis viruses—A, B, C, D, and E. Most of the global viral hepatitis burden is from hepatitis B and C, which affect 354 million people and result in 1.1 million deaths annually. The Centers...
Medical Debt Is Making Americans Angry. Doctors and Hospitals Ignore This at Their Peril.
For Emily Boller, it was a $5,000 hospital bill for a simple case of pink eye that took four years to pay off. For Mary Curley, it was the threatening collection letters from a lab that arrived more than 2.5 years later, just as her husband lost his job and the family was fighting to save their home.
Healthy Recipe: Swiss Chard & Egg Muffins
These easy Swiss Chard & Egg Muffins are delicious and nutritious! They make handy little snacks for breakfast on the go. They are also the perfect size either for a lunch box or for an easy-to-eat, protein-rich small meal if treatment has left you without appetite. The muffins use a simple frittata-type batter that is divvied up between the cups of a muffin tin instead of being cooked in a frying pan.
Hepatitis B and C May Lead to Higher Cancer Risk Than Smoking a Pack a Day
World Hepatitis Day, July 28, is an opportunity to raise awareness about viral hepatitis and its complications and to encourage people to get tested, get vaccinated against hepatitis A and hepatitis B, and get treated for hepatitis C if needed. According to the World Hepatitis Alliance (WHA), viral hepatitis is...
WHO Launches “One Life, One Liver” Campaign on World Hepatitis Day
To mark World Hepatitis Day, The World Health Organization (WHO) is calling for scaling up testing and treatment for viral hepatitis, warning that the disease could kill more people than malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV combined by 2040, if current infection trends continue. Hepatitis causes liver damage and cancer and kills...
Got HIV and Something to Say? Apply for This Free Playwriting Workshop
Picture it: The curtain opens. Onstage under the spotlight, brilliant actors deliver lines, telling a moving story—that you wrote! You—a person living with HIV and a voice waiting to be heard. To manifest this scenario for folks in the HIV community, award-winning playwright—and former POZ cover subject—Donja R....
Seattle ER Team Honored as “Ending the HIV Epidemic Heroes”
For many people at high risk for HIV, emergency departments may be their sole source of health care, which makes emergency rooms critical locations for HIV testing, linkage to care and access to PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) to prevent HIV. The Swedish Ballard Emergency Department (SBED) in Seattle has developed HIV-related...
Qigong Helps Cancer Survivors Reduce Fatigue and Stress
Women cancer survivors who practiced qigong, a traditional Chinese mind-body practice, experienced a decrease in cancer-related fatigue over ten weeks, and the benefits mirrored those seen with higher-intensity exercise, according to study findings published in Integrative Cancer Therapies. Fatigue is a common, sometimes long-term and potentially debilitating side effect of...
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