Archive: 05/03/2019

Top CEOs offer strategies to improve workplace mental health

More than 40 leading CEOs from around the country have issued a step-by-step plan to improve mental health in the workplace.

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Niger busts fake medicines lab

Police in Niger said Tuesday they had closed down a lab in the capital Niamey making bogus drugs and fake beauty products for sale in local markets and neighbouring Nigeria.

Mar 5, 2019

Stereotactic body RT promising for low-, intermediate-risk PCa

(HealthDay)—In men with low-risk and intermediate-risk prostate cancer, stereotactic body radiotherapy is associated with low rates of severe toxic events and high rates of biochemical control, according to a study published ...

Mar 5, 2019

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Staph infections drop, but levels still worry U.S. health officials

(HealthDay)—Dangerous staph infections are declining in America, but they still pose a significant public health threat, a new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows.

Mar 5, 2019

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Michigan's first patient treated with thalamic deep brain stimulation for epilepsy

A 32-year-old man is the first in Michigan with a complete Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) system surgically implanted for the treatment of epilepsy. Neurosurgeon Jason Schwalb, M.D., with help from the team at the Henry Ford ...

Mar 5, 2019

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Study confirms and quantifies Zika-microcephaly link in Brazil

Women infected with Zika virus early in pregnancy are almost 17 times more likely to have a child with microcephaly, according to a study published this week in PLOS Medicine by Oliver Brady of the London School of Hygiene ...

Mar 5, 2019

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Nuclear medicine imaging monitors effectiveness of therapy for melanoma patients

Nuclear medicine imaging with PET/CT can monitor the effectiveness of immunotherapy treatment for metastatic melanoma and predict outcome. In this way, a patient's therapy can be more effectively tailored to his or her personal ...

Mar 5, 2019

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Integrated therapy treating obesity and depression is effective

An intervention combining behavioral weight loss treatment and problem-solving therapy with as-needed antidepressant medication for participants with co-occurring obesity and depression improved weight loss and depressive ...

Mar 5, 2019

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Heroin users aware of fentanyl, but at high risk of overdosing

Most heroin users in Baltimore, a city heavily affected by the opioid epidemic, recognize that the heroin they buy is now almost always laced with the highly dangerous synthetic opioid fentanyl, according to a new study led ...

Mar 5, 2019

Study to investigate how sexual trauma increases HIV susceptibility in women

The link between sexual violence and HIV risk is well-known, extensively documented through behavioral research. But there is growing evidence that sexual trauma also poses a heightened biological risk for HIV infection, ...

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