Health

June 22, 2023 – CAR T-cell therapy is a relatively new and extremely effective treatment for blood cancers such as leukemia. That is, if you can get it. For many, the drugs are too expensive to afford without insurance coverage, and treatment requires access to the few hospitals that offer the therapy.Barriers are especially unequal… […]

June 19, 2023 – State and local health officials around the country are reporting the first cases of West Nile virus of the season in humans and urging people to take action to protect themselves from the mosquito-borne disease.In the past 2 weeks, new cases have been reported in Iowa and Nebraska, adding to previous 2023 reports… […]

June 23, 2023 – When emergency room patients complain of stomach pain, doctors have limited options. Scans and ultrasounds can’t show the inner lining of the digestive tract, so patients are often sent home without answers. Upper endoscopies, where a flexible tube with a tiny camera is fed into the upper digestive tract, require anesthesia and… […]

Even though HER2-positive breast cancer is an aggressive form of the disease, recent advancements in medicine have improved outcomes drastically. Compared to just a few decades ago, this type of breast cancer responds better to treatment. But people with it are still choosing mastectomies over surgery that would allow them to keep their breast –… […]

June 23, 2023 – If you’re taking Ozempic or Rybelsus for type 2 diabetes, Wegovy for weight loss, or other medications in the same drug class, it is not clear how long before planned surgery you should stop taking the drug to be safe.The generic name for these medications is semaglutide. Semaglutide can control blood… […]

June 23, 2023 – Susan Whitmore lost her daughter Erika 20 years ago to a rare sinus cancer.And even though she is a grief counselor in Pacific Palisades, CA, “I thought the grief would literally kill me,” she said. “People often don’t talk about how physical grief is, but it’s a shock to your entire… […]

“You would have looked at my sons and never known,” says Bonnie Milas, MD.She’s speaking about the accidental opioid overdoses that killed her two adult sons in 2018 and 2019. She and other doctors say there’s something that could spare many other families from going through the same tragedy. It’s naloxone, a medication that can reverse an opioid overdose and… […]

By Cara Murez HealthDay ReporterTHURSDAY, June 22, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Consuming omega-3 fatty acids like flaxseed oil and walnuts may help slow the decline in physical function related to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), new research suggests.ALS (formerly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and… […]

June 22, 2023 – Genetics or lifestyle — which matters more?It’s one of those eternal questions in health care, but new science has an answer: Lifestyle matters more, at least when it comes to preventing type 2 diabetes. Among 60,000 healthy, middle-aged adults, those who exercised the most – at least 68 minutes a day –… […]

June 22, 2023 — Adults age 60 and older may get either of two new vaccines to protect against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), a CDC panel of independent experts said Wednesday. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) stopped short of recommending the vaccines for everyone age 65 and above, which was the original question the… […]