Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
What's known about Biden catching COVID-19?
President Joe Biden tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday, is experiencing mild symptoms and has begun taking Paxlovid, an antiviral pill treatment.
Jul 22, 2022
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Oncology & Cancer
Dermatologist argues it's a myth that sunscreen prevents melanoma in people of color
Melanoma is a potentially deadly form of skin cancer that effects people of every racial and ethnic group. The risk factor most closely linked to developing melanoma is exposure to ultraviolet, or UV, rays from the sun. In ...
Jul 20, 2022
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Addiction
US overdose deaths shot up for Black, Native people during pandemic
Overdose deaths increased 44 percent for Black people and 39 percent for American Indians in 2020 compared to 2019, as the Covid-19 pandemic disrupted access to care and exacerbated racial inequality, an official report showed ...
Jul 19, 2022
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Health
New research calls for a health equity lens in commercial tobacco product regulation
University of Minnesota School of Public Health Assistant Professor Dana Mowls Carroll co-authored a recent commentary in Preventive Medicine on how commercial tobacco policies contribute to inequities, including the unequal ...
Jul 19, 2022
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Oncology & Cancer
Medical aid in dying mostly used by well-educated, white patients with cancer
Rutgers researchers analyzed data from each of the 5,329 patients across the U.S. who died from medical aid in the 23 years after Oregon became the first state to legalize it and found one demographic dominates the group: ...
Jul 18, 2022
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Neuroscience
Head injuries in children linked to reduced brain size and learning difficulties
Traumatic brain injury may lead to reduced brain size in some children and teenagers, which can be linked to cognitive problems, a new study shows.
Jul 8, 2022
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Obstetrics & gynaecology
Black people in the US twice as likely to face coercion, unconsented procedures during birth
Black people in the U.S. are twice as likely as white people to be coerced into procedures during perinatal and birth care, and to undergo them without their explicit consent, according to a new study by researchers at UBC's ...
Jun 23, 2022
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Oncology & Cancer
New report shows cancer survivors grew to 18 million in the US; more than two-thirds aged 65 years or older
A new report led by researchers at the American Cancer Society (ACS) in collaboration with the National Cancer Institute (NCI) shows more than 18 million Americans (8.3 million males and 9.7 million females) with a history ...
Jun 23, 2022
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Health
Social stress can speed up immune system aging
As people age, their immune systems naturally begin to decline. This aging of the immune system, called immunosenescence, may be an important part of such age-related health problems as cancer and cardiovascular disease, ...
Jun 16, 2022
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Oncology & Cancer
Chronic stresses of racism and poverty alter cellular functions that promote tumor growth and proliferation
Chronically stressful conditions of daily life such as racism, pollution and poverty have a direct impact on the cellular mechanisms that drive lethal, invasive forms of breast cancer, according to a study led by Duke Cancer ...
Jun 13, 2022
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