The Internet Has Made Health Anxiety Worse Than Ever
“Don’t google your cancer,” the oncology nurse said to me as she drew my blood ahead of my first round of chemotherapy. It was 2006 and I was 17 years old. I was very confused by the emphasis she put on this advice. Still, I took the print-out of “safe” web addresses she gave me home and pinned it on the noticeboard in the kitchen, where it stayed, ignored, as I slowly progressed through six months of cancer treatment.
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I was confused because the opportunities for me to use the internet to research my recent diagnosis of Hodgkin’s Lymphoma,...
Source: TIME: Health - April 24, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Caroline Crampton Tags: Uncategorized freelance Source Type: news
MR elastography effective for assessing liver stiffness in children
MR elastography (MRE) is an effective technique for noninvasive monitoring of liver stiffness -- a surrogate for fibrosis -- in children and young adults with autoimmune liver disease, researchers have reported.
A team led by first author Jonathan Dillman, MD, of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Center in Ohio found that MRE liver stiffness measurements were elevated in children and young adults with autoimmune liver disease. The results were published April 18 in the American Journal of Roentgenology.
“[As well, these measurements] were not significantly different between subsets of patients with primary sclerosing ch...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 19, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Kate Madden Yee Tags: MRI Pediatric Radiology Source Type: news
Progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis-2 mimicking non-accidental injury - Reddy S, Fleishman N, Dempsey K, Ferren E, Kamionek M, Gopalareddy VV.
Progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis (PFIC) is a heterogeneous group of disorders characterized by defective secretion of bile acids or transport defects resulting in progressive cholestasis. These disorders usually present during infancy or child... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - April 11, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Infants and Children Source Type: news
UltraCon: How reliable is POCUS for pancreatic imaging?
AUSTIN, TX – Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) isn’t typically used for imaging the pancreas, but perhaps that should change, according to a presentation given April 7 at UltraCon.
In her talk, Alice Lee, MD, from Stanford University in California highlighted findings on how POCUS can be a reliable tool for pancreatic imaging, whether performed by experienced or novice sonographers.
“One of the big implications of pancreatic POCUS is the way that we put imaging in the hands of a provider who’s really managing the patient, whether it’s the gastroenterologist or the primary care physician,” Lee said.
Alice Lee,...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 7, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Amerigo Allegretto Tags: Ultrasound Gastrointestinal Radiology Source Type: news
News at a glance: Domestic U.S. postdocs, edited pig organs, and the Milky Way ’s central black hole
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South Korea joins Horizon Europe
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol (center) and EU leaders announced a research funding deal.
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South Korea will participate in the €95.5 billion ($104 billion) Horizon Europe R&D program, the first East Asian country to do so, the European Commission announced last week. South Korean scientists will compete for grants on an equal footing with their European counterparts; in return, South Korea will contribute an as-yet-undisclosed amount to the 7-year program, which expires in 20...
Source: ScienceNOW - March 28, 2024 Category: Science Source Type: news
Is the 100-year old TB vaccine a new weapon against Alzheimer ’s?
Studies suggest the BCG jab discovered a century ago could provide a cheap and effective way of boosting the immune system to protect people from developing the conditionScientific discoveries can emerge from the strangest places. In early 1900s France, the doctor Albert Calmette and the veterinarian Camille Gu érin aimed to discover how bovine tuberculosis was transmitted. To do so, they first had to find a way of cultivating the bacteria. Sliced potatoes – cooked with ox bile and glycerine – proved to be the perfect medium.As the bacteria grew, however, Calmette and Gu érin were surprised to find thateach generatio...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 25, 2024 Category: Science Authors: David Robson Tags: Alzheimer's Immunology Science Society Health Medical research Biochemistry and molecular biology Tuberculosis Vaccines and immunisation Dementia Source Type: news
Doctor shares breakfast he eats every day that can lower cholesterol naturally
A creamy food packed with fibre could help bind bile acids which will decrease high cholesterol in your body naturally. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - February 18, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
How Pigs Could Help People Who Need Liver Transplants
In this study, eGenesis scientists used CRISPR to make not one, but 69 edits to the pig genome: three to remove the most pig-like proteins that would activate the human system to reject the liver, seven edits to add human genes to the pig liver, and 59 to inactivate pig retroviruses that could cause problems in humans. “Until CRISPR, there was no way to do that many edits easily,” says Curtis.
The future of pig livers
This single-patient study is just the beginning of what xenotransplants can achieve, says Shaked. The liver has two major duties in the body: regulating critical enzymes and substances such ...
Source: TIME: Health - January 18, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Hospice nurse shares three common symptoms of bile duct cancer - ‘go to the doctor’
Many people don't go to the doctor for these symptoms because they're "general and generic". (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - January 15, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Research fuels advances in bile duct cancer care
Bile duct cancer, also known as cholangiocarcinoma, forms in the thin tubes that carry bile from your liver to your gallbladder and small intestine. Though relatively rare, cholangiocarcinoma is often diagnosed in later stages, making it more difficult to treat, and cases in the U.S. are increasing. In a review article published in Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology in 2023, lead author Sumera I. Ilyas, M.B.B.S., and co-authors share advances in diagnosing, staging and treating bile duct cancer. Dr.… (Source: News from Mayo Clinic)
Source: News from Mayo Clinic - January 13, 2024 Category: Databases & Libraries Source Type: news
Oxfordshire man with diabetes 'in limbo' after benefits refusal
Ashley Hall has also been diagnosed with bile acid malabsorption, which leaves him in constant pain. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - January 12, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Revolting video shows FIVE wiggly parasitic worms trapped inside a 70 year-old man's abdomen
A 70-year-old man who underwent a procedure to diagnose blockages in his bile duct was found to have worms in his abdomen, according to Chinese doctors. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - December 28, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Integration of Biorelevant Pediatric Dissolution Methodology into PBPK Modeling to Predict In Vivo Performance and Bioequivalence of Generic Drugs in Pediatric Populations
In this study, CDER researchers looked for potential differences in dissolution profiles based on gastrointestinal (GI) fluid volume, composition, and bile salt concentrations in adult and pediatric patients. (Source: FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research - What's New)
Source: FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research - What's New - December 12, 2023 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: FDA Source Type: news
Bile duct function and disease highlighted in new research study
These ducts are a critical but poorly understood component of the human digestive system, new research helps understand the diseases affecting them. (Source: Yale Science and Health News)
Source: Yale Science and Health News - December 8, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Mark Shelmerdine, BAFTA L.A. Co-Founder and Producer Who Revived London Films, Dies at 78
Mark Shelmerdine, the BAFTA L.A. co-founder and producer who is credited with reviving Alexandra Korda’s London Films, died Oct. 26 in Santa Barbara after a long illness. He was 78. Shelmerdine was diagnosed with a rare form of bile duct cancer in 2016. After being treated in a trial program…#markshelmerdine #baftala #alexandrakordas #londonfilms #santabarbara #shelmerdine #houston #taylorclark #robertclark #abccinema (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - December 2, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
