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Shorter Course of Radiation Therapy Is Safe for Certain Breast Cancer Cases
Researchers at Dana-Farber Brigham Cancer Center have found that a shorter course of radiation therapy after mastectomy and breast reconstruction surgery provides the same protection against breast cancer recurrence and equivalent physical side-effects but substantially reduces life disruption and financial burden for patients. The results of the multicenter randomized clinical...
CDC Issues First DoxyPEP Guidelines
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued its first proposed guidelines for using the antibiotic doxycycline as post-exposure prophylaxis to prevent bacterial sexually transmitted infections (STIs), an approach known as doxyPEP. The guidelines, published in the Federal Register on October 2, will be open for public comment for 45 days.
As COVID Infections Rise, Nursing Homes Are Still Waiting for Vaccines
“COVID is not pretty in a nursing home,” said Deb Wityk, a 70-year-old retired massage therapist who lives in one called Spurgeon Manor, in rural Iowa. She twice contracted the disease and is eager to get the newly approved vaccine because she has chronic lymphocytic leukemia, which weakens her immune system.
Supermodel Linda Evangelista Reveals Double Mastectomy After Breast Cancer
Supermodel Linda Evangelista shared publicly for the first time that she was diagnosed with cancer twice in the last five years: breast cancer in 2018 and cancer of the pectoral muscle last year. Evangelista, 58, who shot to global fame in the 1990s, revealed her diagnoses in an interview with...
FDA Authorizes New Novavax COVID Vaccine
On October 3, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized an updated version of the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine, following its mid-September approval of updated messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech. The three new vaccines are designed to provide better protection against recent SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus variants. “The COVID-19 vaccines...
More Evidence Cabenuva Works for People Without Viral Suppression
A small case series showed that the long-acting injectable regimen Cabenuva led to viral suppression in all 12 people whose HIV was not kept in check with daily oral antiretrovirals, according to a recent report in Clinical Infectious Diseases. Despite remarkable advances in antiretroviral therapy (ART), easier and more accessible...
Health Insurers Must Count Co-Pays as Patient Costs, Court Rules
A district judge struck down a federal rule implemented under the Trump administration that allowed health insurers to ignore co-pay assistance when tabulating a patient’s out-of-pocket costs. The ruling is a win for people who need expensive prescription drugs, notably those with HIV, hepatitis, cancer, arthritis, diabetes and multiple...
She Received Chemo in Two States. Why Did It Cost So Much More in Alaska?
Emily Gebel was trying to figure out why she was having trouble breastfeeding. That’s when she felt a lump. Gebel, a mother of two, went to her primary care doctor in Juneau, Alaska, who referred her for testing, she said. Her 9-month-old was asleep in her arms when she...
Scientists Win Nobel Prize for mRNA Technology Used in COVID Vaccines
The 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to two scientists who made key discoveries that led to the development of the messenger RNA (mRNA) COVID-19 vaccines credited with preventing countless deaths worldwide. On October 2, the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm announced the award...
Don’t Forget the F/U After Your Lung Cancer Screening
For the last 10 years, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has advised that adults between the ages of 50 and 80 who have a 20 pack-year smoking history and currently smoke (or have quit within the past 15 years) should receive a low-dose computed tomography (CT) every year to check for lung cancer.
Is coffee good or bad for you?
Coffee often gets a bad rap, perhaps due to the notion that anything so enjoyable must be bad for you. But in fact, studies show that coffee has numerous health benefits. Coffee’s effect on the liver has the largest body of evidence. Studies have found that coffee may reduce the risk of liver fibrosis and cirrhosis, fatty liver disease, alcohol-related liver disease and liver cancer. An analysis comparing countries with and without heavy coffee consumption suggests that drinking two cups a day could reduce the number of liver-related deaths by more than 450,000 a year worldwide. Another study found that drinking three cups a day cut the risk of death in half for people with both HIV and hepatitis C.
Healthy Recipe: Tangy Braised Kale With Tomato
Braised kale is a quick, easy, and delicious way to eat your greens. In this pretty dish, the cancer-fighting veggie lead — the cruciferous superstar kale — is backed up by lycopene-rich cooked tomatoes and protein-packed peas. Serve it with some quinoa or steamed brown rice to transform it from a side into a main dish.
Florida Man Pleads Guilty to Distributing Over $16M in Altered HIV Meds
A Miami man has pleaded guilty to setting up companies in several states in order to sell at least $16.7 million in adulterated and misbranded HIV meds, notably Truvada and Biktarvy. He faces a maximum of five years in prison. Armando Herrera and his co-conspirators established companies in California, Colorado,...
Psychologist Discusses Mental Health Stigma Among Latinos
Stigma is a primary reason that Latino families choose not to discuss mental health concerns with their primary care doctors, according to psychologist Sheryl Ziegler, PsyD. Many Latinos believe that they will be seen as weak or unfit if they discuss their mental health , Ziegler told 9News in an interview. Latino patients may wind up with prescription medications or blood tests for physical ailments because, Ziegler said, “it’s a really common Hispanic manifestation to take your mental illness and turn it into physical illness.”
New Medicare Advantage Plans Tailor Offerings to Asian Americans, Latinos, and LGBTQ+
As Medicare Advantage continues to gain popularity among seniors, three Southern California companies are pioneering new types of plans that target cultural and ethnic communities with special offerings and native-language practitioners. Clever Care Health Plan, based in Huntington Beach, and Alignment Health, based in nearby Orange, both have plans aimed...
Dare to Dream a Better Future for Children With Blood Cancers
Did you know that blood cancer is the most common cancer diagnosis for children, accounting for 40% of pediatric cancer cases? In fact, nearly 55,000 children and adolescents in the United States currently have blood cancer or are in remission from blood cancer. Advances in medicine have given most of...
NIH Designates People With Disabilities as a Population With Health Disparities
Today [September 26], Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable, MD, director of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD), designated people with disabilities as a population with health disparities for research supported by the National Institutes of Health. The decision was made in consultation with Robert Otto Valdez, PhD,...
How Will Rural Americans Fare During Medicaid Unwinding? Experts Fear They’re on Their Own
Abby Madore covers a lot of ground each day at work. A staffer at a community health center in Carson City, Nevada, Madore spends her days helping low-income residents understand their health insurance options, including Medicaid. Her phone is always ringing, she said, as she fields calls from clients who dial in from the state’s remote reaches seeking help.
SARS-CoV-2 Infects Coronary Arteries, Increases Plaque Inflammation
SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, can directly infect the arteries of the heart and cause the fatty plaque inside arteries to become highly inflamed, increasing the risk of heart attack and stroke, according to a study funded by the National Institutes of Health. The findings, published in the journal Nature Cardiovascular Research, may help explain why certain people who get COVID-19 have a greater chance of developing cardiovascular disease, or if they already have it, develop more heart-related complications.
Magic Johnson on HIV Awareness in 2023, Grandkids, Marriage
Last week, the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation (ETAF) honored NBA Hall of Fame legend, philanthropist and businessman Earvin “Magic” Johnson and his wife, Cookie Johnson—also a philanthropist and entrepreneur—at the fourth annual Elizabeth Taylor Ball to End AIDS fundraising gala. Cohosts Angela Bassett and Courtney B....
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