Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Preventing untimely deaths from non-communicable diseases

Most of the world's countries have made little progress towards a target adopted by the United Nations in 2015, which called for the world to reduce premature mortality from non-communicable diseases by a third by 2030. Non-communicable ...

Oncology & Cancer

Immunotherapy drug bolsters head and neck cancer treatment

A University of Cincinnati clinical trial that added an immunotherapy drug to standard of care treatment regimens has shown increased survival rates for head and neck cancer patients with intermediate risk features.

Oncology & Cancer

Colon cancer screening can erase disparities in outcomes

Colorectal cancer disparities between Black and white adults were eliminated among Kaiser Permanente members in Northern California after the health care organization instituted a regionwide, structured colorectal cancer ...

Obstetrics & gynaecology

Pregnancy-related deaths climbed in pandemic's first year

Pregnancy-related deaths for U.S. mothers climbed higher in the pandemic's first year, continuing a decades-long trend that disproportionately affects Black people, according to a government report released Wednesday.

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