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Need to Get Plan B or an HIV Test Online? Facebook May Know About It
Looking for an at-home HIV test on CVS’ website is not as private an experience as one might think. An investigation by The Markup and KFF Health News found trackers on CVS.com telling some of the biggest social media and advertising platforms the products customers viewed. And CVS is...
Black, Rural Southern Women at Gravest Risk From Pregnancy Miss Out on Maternal Health Aid
As maternal mortality skyrockets in the United States, a federal program created to improve rural maternity care has bypassed Black mothers, who are at the highest risk of complications and death related to pregnancy. The grant-funded initiative, administered by the Health Resources and Services Administration, began rolling out four years...
Most People Who Need Hepatitis C Treatment Aren’t Getting It
Today’s hepatitis C medications are highly effective, but only a third of people with the virus have been diagnosed and successfully treated, hampering efforts to eliminate the life-threatening disease, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The numbers are even worse for young people and those without health insurance.
Healthy Recipe: Cheesy Swiss Chard & Egg Breakfast Tacos
This recipe for our protein-packed Cheesy Swiss Chard Breakfast Tacos starts with prepping swiss chard from scratch, but the truth of the matter is that this tasty breakfast sandwich is a great way to use up leftover steamed or sautéed greens. 4 servings. 20 minute prep. 9 ingredients. Ingredients.
HIV Cases Will Spike if Health Care Doesn’t Cover Prevention, Warn Experts
Nearly 30 groups representing the HIV community and health care providers filed briefs urging a U.S. Court of Appeals not to end the requirement that health care insurers must cover certain preventive services without cost sharing, notably pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), the daily pills and long-acting injectables that prevent HIV. Other preventive care is at stake as well, including diabetes and cancer screenings and HIV and hepatitis tests.
Tuberculosis Vaccine Candidate Could Be the First in 100 Years
LONDON and SEATTLE (June 28, 2023) – Wellcome and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today announced funding to advance a tuberculosis (TB) vaccine candidate, M72/AS01E (M72), through a Phase III clinical trial. If proven effective, M72 could potentially become the first new vaccine to help prevent pulmonary TB, a form of active TB, in more than 100 years.
Potential Treatment for Rare Autoimmune Disorder Adapted From CAR-T Therapy
Evidence from a small-scale clinical trial suggests that a variation of the advanced blood cancer immunotherapy known as CAR-T could be adapted to treat myasthenia gravis, an autoimmune disorder of the nervous system. The modified CAR-T therapy, short for chimeric antigen receptor T-cell, used by scientists offers the potential for...
Is On-Demand PrEP Feasible for Young Gay Men?
Young gay and bisexual men may have difficulty predicting when they’re likely to have sex, which could make it challenging to use on-demand pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), according to study findings published in the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. “[W]e found that although there was an association between the...
Cancer Advocates Applaud Announcement of CDC Director Nomination
[On June 16] President Biden nominated Dr. Mandy Cohen to serve as the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The role is critical to leading data collection and implementing evidence-based interventions that reduce cancer incidence and mortality including informing state tobacco prevention and cessation programs and preventive screening programs like the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program that improves early detection.
Ensuring Equitable Kidney Care
Black Americans are almost three times more likely to experience kidney failure compared with white people. Although this was once thought to be due to biological differences, research suggests otherwise. In a recent Michigan Medicine article, Rajiv Saran, MD, a research professor at Michigan Medicine, the University of Michigan’s academic...
Biden-Harris Administration Launches Initiative to Improve Cancer Outcomes in Low-Income Areas
Today [June 26], the Biden-Harris Administration awarded $50 million to launch the Persistent Poverty Initiative, an initiative to alleviate the cumulative effects of persistent poverty on cancer outcomes by building research capacity, fostering cancer prevention research, and promoting the implementation of community-based programs. The Persistent Poverty Initiative is the first...
National HIV Testing Day 2023
Tuesday, June 27, marks National HIV Testing Day (#HIVTestingDay and #NHTD) 2023. This year’s theme is “Take the Test & Take the Next Steps,” which highlights the fact that learning your HIV status is just one step on one’s self-care journey, optimal health outcomes and HIV prevention.
Drugmakers Are Abandoning Cheap Generics, and Now US Cancer Patients Can’t Get Meds
On November 22, three Food and Drug Administration inspectors arrived at the sprawling Intas Pharmaceuticals plant south of Ahmedabad, India, and found hundreds of trash bags full of shredded documents tossed into a garbage truck. Over the next 10 days, the inspectors assessed what looked like a systematic effort to conceal quality problems at the plant, which provided more than half of the U.S. supply of generic cisplatin and carboplatin, two cheap drugs used to treat as many as 500,000 new cancer cases every year.
Biden to Appoint Mandy Cohen as Director of CDC
[On June 16] President Biden announced his intent to appoint Dr. Mandy Cohen as Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dr. Cohen is one of the nation’s top physicians and health leaders with experience leading large and complex organizations, and a proven track-record protecting Americans’ health and safety.
Fecal Microbiota Transplant Improves Gut Health in People With Cirrhosis
Fecal microbiota transplants (FMT) can help restore gut function, improve mucosal immunity and reduce toxic ammonia levels in people with advanced liver cirrhosis, according to research presented at the EASL Congress in Vienna. “These initial findings are promising news for patients with chronic liver disease who are in desperate need...
Healthy Recipe: Cauliflower Spoonbread
When our founder Ann Ogden Gaffney wants a light supper, she turns to souffles and spoonbreads with pureed vegetables and a little cheese, which she enjoys with a crisp green salad. A basic puree with the addition of eggs and salty feta cheese transforms this classic dish from a simple side dish into a complete meal.
White House: President Biden Issues Executive Order on Strengthening Access to Contraception
Today [June 23], President Biden will issue an Executive Order on Strengthening Access to Affordable, High-Quality Contraception and Family Planning Services. This will be the third Executive Order on reproductive health care access that the President has signed since the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, and the first focused specifically on protecting and expanding access to contraception. Contraception is an essential component of reproductive health care that has only become more important in the wake of Dobbs and the ensuing crisis in women’s access to health care.
Broadway Bares: Pleasure Park Raises Nearly $1.9M for HIV Causes [VIDEO]
It was a night of thrilling rides for burlesque dancers and ogling audience members alike as Broadway hoofers heated up the HIV fundraiser Broadway Bares: Pleasure Park. Held June 18, the one-night, two-show event raised $1,887,014 for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS (BCEFA). Watch a highlights video at the top of...
Transgender People Need Cancer Screening and Timely Care
Many transgender, gender-nonconforming and nonbinary people may be missing out on appropriate care to prevent and treat cancer, according to a small but growing body of research. Gender-affirming therapy does not necessarily eliminate—and in some cases may increase—cancer risk. Some trans men remain at risk for breast, cervical, endometrial, uterine and ovarian cancers, while most trans women are still susceptible to prostate cancer. There is a still a dearth of research on the effects of gender-affirming hormone therapy on cancer risk and disease progression.
How Washington’s New Law Advances Clinical Trial Diversity
Clinical trials are crucial for advancing cancer care. For individual patients, access to trials can be lifesaving. For researchers and doctors, trials help identify better treatments and cures. But historically, many groups of people face barriers to enrolling in clinical trials. These groups include people of color, younger patients, older...
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