Family Medicine News

We don’t yet fully understand what mindfulness is, but this is what it’s not

20.02.2019 Health Problems

Last night’s episode of ABC’s Catalyst, “The Mindfulness Experiment”, offered a unique glimpse into what happens to people during Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction, an eight-week structured training program in mindfulness meditation. The program followed 15 ordinary Australians who were seeking to deal with conditions including chronic pain, stress and anxiety. At the end of the experiment, many of the participants […]

Charlotte Tilbury to Open First U.S. Store

19.02.2019 Beauty & Balance

Makeup artist Charlotte Tilbury is readying her first U.S. storefront. The shop is set to open at The Grove in Los Angeles in summer 2019. The goal is to bring the Charlotte Tilbury shopping experience closer to U.S. consumers. "With all of my Beauty Wonderlands I have designed them to completely revolutionize and disrupt the way people shop, they are […]

New nanomedicines for a more efficient and less aggressive treatment of prostate cancer

18.02.2019 Health Problems

In Europe, prostate cancer is the most common type of cancer among men with an incidence greater than 100 cases per 100,000 individuals. Furthermore, it is currently the second most common cause of cancer-related deaths among men. This pathology mainly affects elderly men: nine in 10 deaths take place after 65 years of age. Therefore, it represents a very serious […]

Researchers identify protein that contributes to racial disparities in prostate cancer

18.02.2019 Health Problems

Cancer researchers have long known that prostate cancer tends to be more common, more aggressive and more resistant to existing treatments in African-Americans than in Caucasian-Americans, but they’re only beginning to understand why. A Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center study published today points to cellular factors that appear to be driving these disparities—mitochondrial differences that prevent formation of the cancer-killing […]

Unsure if you want a baby? You’re not the only one

18.02.2019 Kids Health

An analysis of 33 studies of fertility intentions in developed countries found that roughly one-fifth to one-third of women said they weren’t sure. In the US, 16 percent of people who were not parents said they weren’t sure if they wanted to be. By Margot Sanger-Katz and Claire Cain Miller For decades, researchers and physicians tended to think about pregnancies […]

My Child Wants to Transition From Male to Female

15.02.2019 Kids Health

In June, my 19-year-old left home in the middle of the night and drove 14 hours from St. Louis to Virginia Beach to be with a 28-year-old man (the two had met online). A week later, after a lot of panic and tears from my husband and me and some frank talk all around, my child came home — and […]

Genetic variations in a fourth gene linked to elevated leukemia risk in Hispanic children

14.02.2019 Health Problems

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital scientists have identified genetic variations in a fourth gene that are associated with an increased risk of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) in Hispanic children. The research appears today in the journal Blood. The gene is ERG, a transcription factor that is also mutated in the leukemic cells of some ALL patients. In this study, researchers […]

How to mend broken hearts

14.02.2019 Health Problems

Dr. Richard Jabbour’s mission is to fix broken hearts. But he doesn’t dispense relationship advice or provide a shoulder to cry on – as no doubt many others will be doing this Valentine’s Day. Instead, he builds healing, pumping ‘patches’ in a small dish that can help to mend damaged heart tissue. Dr. Jabbour, a cardiologist and researcher, is part […]

Having a sense of meaning in life is good for you. So how do you get one?

13.02.2019 Health Problems

The pursuit of happiness and health is a popular endeavour, as the preponderance of self-help books would attest. Yet it is also fraught. Despite ample advice from experts, individuals regularly engage in activities that may only have short-term benefit for well-being, or even backfire. The search for the heart of well-being – that is, a nucleus from which other aspects […]

Does that medicine work for women? Why signing up for a medical study could be your next feminist move

13.02.2019 Health Problems

You’ve marched in the Women’s March, cheered for women in Congress, grappled with the wide-ranging implications of the MeToo movement, talked with your kids (of both genders) about sexual harassment. Wait—did you forget to sign up for a medical study? In the new pantheon of Women’s Causes We Care About, inclusion in medical research has often ranked somewhere below concern […]

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