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Oral aspirin does not up FIT test sensitivity for ID’ing CRC

08.05.2019 Health Problems

(HealthDay)—Administration of a single dose of oral aspirin prior to fecal immunochemical testing does not increase test sensitivity for detecting advanced colorectal neoplasms, according to a study published in the May 7 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. Hermann Brenner, M.D., M.P.H., from the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg, and colleagues conducted a randomized trial in […]

Cynthia Nixon Opens Up About Her Transgender Son

06.05.2019 Kids Health

Tony, Emmy and Grammy Award winner (and former New York candidate for governor) Cynthia Nixon talked to Us Weekly about her transgender son, Seph, 22, at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 29. Nixon was at the festival for the world premiere of her project Stray Dolls when she was asked about Samuel Joseph Mozes (Seph’s full name). “I’m very […]

Ronda Rousey Opens Up About ‘Trying to Start a Family’

29.04.2019 Kids Health

Next stop: pregnancy! Ronda Rousey and her husband, Travis Browne, got married in 2017 and are now trying to conceive their first child. “With me and my husband trying to start a family, we are very fortunate to be in a very secure position now,” the wrestler, 32, told Us Weekly exclusively at the LA Family Housing LAFH Awards & […]

Pink Opens Up About Anxiety and Suicide: ‘I Fully Understand That’

26.04.2019 Kids Health

Singer Pink Opens a New Window. has always been a proponent of everyone speaking their minds Opens a New Window. — and she wants the world to know that’s especially true for conversations about mental health, depression, anxiety and suicide. “I’m hopeful that the taboo of it is all going away, because more and more people are talking about it,” […]

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 […]

Breast cancer up to five times more likely to metastasize even 10 years after childbirth

17.01.2019 Health Problems

A study by researchers at University of Colorado Cancer Center and Oregon Health & Science University published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association Network shows that breast cancers diagnosed in young women within 10 years of giving birth are more likely to metastasize, and thus more likely to cause death, than breast cancers in young women who […]

News anchor opens up to viewers about dad’s stroke

21.12.2018 Health Problems

Brooke Lennington’s phone buzzed late one night in 2016, a week before Thanksgiving. Her younger brother, Hunter, was calling, frantically saying a nurse at a hospital had called about their father. Hunter, a teenager, had been too overwhelmed to learn more. Brooke called and learned that then-50-year-old Rich Lennington had suffered a stroke. She asked how serious it was. “Honey, […]

Major data release set for early 2019 as recruitment wraps up for nation’s largest adolescent brain study

04.12.2018 Health Problems

Research teams all across the globe are eagerly awaiting a major release of data from the largest study ever attempted on the adolescent brain. FIU is one of 21 sites studying nearly 11,874 participants collectively, including 2,100 twins or triplets. Researchers will follow the children, currently between the ages of 9 and 10, through young adulthood. Recruitment for participants wrapped […]

Proteins cooperate to break up energy structures in oxygen starved heart cells

19.11.2018 Health Problems

During a heart attack, the supply of oxygen to heart cells is decreased. This reduced oxygen level, called hypoxia, causes the cell’s powerhouses, the mitochondria, to fragment, impairing cell function and leading to heart failure. Until now, few details have been known about how this process occurs. Researchers at the National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Japan, have revealed how filamin […]

High variability in metabolic measures may up mortality

16.10.2018 Health Problems

(HealthDay)—High variability in metabolic parameters is associated with increased risk for mortality and cardiovascular events, according to a study published online Oct. 1 in Circulation. Mee Kyoung Kim, M.D., Ph.D., from the Catholic University of Korea in Seoul, and colleagues used nationally representative data from the Korean National Health Insurance System for 6,748,773 people who were free of diabetes mellitus, […]

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