Health
Sometimes hair loss in women can point to bigger health issues
Hair loss can be devastating for women, but the condition can also signal additional health problems.
Mar 17, 2023
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Medications
HIV drug may be linked to increased risk of hypertension
In 2019, the World Health Organization formally recommended the drug dolutegravir (DTG) as the preferred antiretroviral therapy (ART) for people living with HIV in low and middle-income countries (LMICs), citing that it is ...
Feb 22, 2023
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Oncology & Cancer
Aggressive breast cancer linked to African ancestry
Weill Cornell Medicine investigators have identified definitive biological links between African ancestry and disease processes that affect an aggressive cancer type called triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC). Their analysis ...
Sep 20, 2022
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Oncology & Cancer
US residents of Mexican descent may have a higher risk of liver cancer with each successive generation
The risk of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in individuals of Mexican descent living in Los Angeles has increased with each successive generation in the United States, according to results presented at the 15th AACR Conference ...
Sep 16, 2022
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Cardiology
People of East Asian descent have more vessels reclog after endovascular treatment
Among people who received endovascular therapy to mechanically remove a clot in their large brain artery, those who had a rare genetic variant found primarily in people of East Asian descent (Japanese, Chinese and Korean) ...
Jul 12, 2022
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Pediatrics
Meta-analysis shows children prefer people who speak like them
Research shows that children prefer to befriend, listen to, and imitate people who speak similarly to them. While most of this research has been conducted on monolingual (speaking only one language) children from Western ...
Mar 24, 2021
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Health
Difference in a single gene may boost stress on heart from e-cigarettes in people of East Asian descent
A genetic difference in one gene common in people of East Asian descent may make them more susceptible to adverse responses to e-cigarettes, according to preliminary research to be presented July 27-30, 2020, at the American ...
Jul 27, 2020
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
US coronavirus deaths top 40,000: Johns Hopkins
The number of deaths from the new coronavirus in the United States topped 40,000 on Sunday, according to a running tally by Johns Hopkins University.
Apr 19, 2020
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Diabetes
Young adults of South Asian descent face higher risk of prediabetes, diabetes: study
Compared to long-term residents, immigrants to Canada have a 40 percent higher risk of developing prediabetes, which is an early predictor of an individual's likelihood of developing Type 2 diabetes and associated illnesses, ...
Oct 7, 2019
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Cardiology
Scientists link genetics to risk of high blood pressure among blacks
Variants in the gene ARMC5 may be associated with high blood pressure among blacks, according to a National Institutes of Health study led by researchers at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and ...
Jul 3, 2019
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