Science ’s 2023 Breakthrough of the Year: Weight loss drugs with a real shot at fighting obesity
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Obesity plays out as a private struggle and a public health crisis. In the United States, about 70% of adults are affected by excess weight, and in Europe that number is more than half. The stigma against fat can be crushing; its risks, life-threatening. Defined as a body mass index of at least 30, obesity is thought to power type 2 diabetes, heart disease, arthritis, fatty liver disease, and certain cancers.
Yet drug treatments...
Source: ScienceNOW - December 14, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
‘He found a lump’: how school tragedy drove UK scientist’s mission to fight blood cancers
Professor tells of his teenage grief and how it drove a new approach to research at York UniversityIan Hitchcock ’s first encounter with cancer was as a schoolboy in Bedford. He played rugby there and became good friends with a team-mate.“He was a lovely guy. Smart, pleasant and a talented sports person. He really was one of the most popular kids in the year,” says Hitchcock, who recently oversaw the creation of York University’s newcentre for blood research.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - December 10, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Robin McKie, Science Editor Tags: Cancer research Medical research Health Science University of York Higher education Society Source Type: news
Kate Robertson obituary
My friend and colleague Kate Robertson, who has died of pancreatic cancer aged 65, was a child and adolescent psychotherapist who became head of child psychotherapy at the London borough of Hammersmith and Fulham and chair of the Association of Child Psychotherapists (ACP). She was a passionate advocate for widening access to the child psychotherapy profession and helped to extend government funding for NHS child psychotherapy training.Kate was born in Theydon Bois in Essex, the second daughter of Beryl (nee Jenkins), a secretary, and Bob Robertson, a company director. When she was 17 her mother died suddenly, and she went...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - December 8, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Katie Argent Tags: Children Psychology London University of Sussex Source Type: news
Hospitals Should Be Redesigned to Improve Care
Hospitals are such important places in our lives. It’s where we are born, where we go for help when we’re not well, and where we turn to when cancer, a heart attack, or major injury leaves us hanging by a thread. It’s also where our loved ones spend their time anxiously waiting for us to get better, to hear good or bad news.
So then, why are hospitals such miserable places?
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Most hospitals are so poorly designed, you feel their negative effects the moment you walk through the front door. The unintuitive layout immediately disorients you. The stark, cold l...
Source: TIME: Health - December 5, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Danish Kurani Tags: Uncategorized freelance Health Care Source Type: news
Risk for Chronic Health Conditions Increased for Young LGB Cancer Survivors
MONDAY, Dec. 4, 2023 -- The risk for chronic health conditions is increased for lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) adolescent and young adult cancer survivors (AYACS) compared with LGB individuals without a history of cancer and heterosexual AYACS,... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - December 4, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Most Americans Are Quitting Smoking —Except For Those Over 65
An endless supply of trendy takes in recent years claim that among young adults, smoking is cool again. But though they may be hanging from the lips of major influencers and starlets, cigarettes have far more fans in an older demographic, according to new data on adult smoking behaviors in the United States. From 2011 to 2022, the prevalence of smoking habits decreased in every age bracket except one: the 65-and-up crowd.
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Public health campaigns and programs outlining the dangers of smoking aren’t really aimed at older adults, says Rafael Meza, an integrative onc...
Source: TIME: Health - December 1, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Haley Weiss Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Paediatric nurse recalls how she feared the worst when her teenage daughter presented symptoms she recognised in her own patients - before being diagnosed with cancer
Megan Whooley, 23, from London, was just 16 when she started to feel unwell waking up and 'generally feeling rubbish'. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - November 21, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Study Confirms Small Blood Cancer Risk From CT Scans Study Confirms Small Blood Cancer Risk From CT Scans
The increased risk of hematological malignancies from CT radiation exposure in children and young adults should be viewed in the context of the substantial benefit these scans offer, experts say.Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - November 15, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Hematology-Oncology News Source Type: news
Do we need to change the meaning of 'overweight'? MILLIONS with 'normal' BMIs are at risk of these eight cancers, major study suggests
Researchers in Sweden tracked more than 1.5million men from when they were teenagers for nearly 40 years, looking to find links between teenage weight and future cancer risk. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - November 7, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Should We End Obesity?
It’s unusual for a medication to become a household name; even more uncommon for its branding to become, like Advil, shorthand for an entire class of products; and rarest of all, for it to change not just U.S. medicine, but U.S. culture.
Ozempic has done all three.
Approved in 2017 as a type 2 diabetes medication, Ozempic has largely made its name—and a fortune for its manufacturer, Novo Nordisk—as a weight-loss aid. Novo Nordisk knew early on that diabetes patients often lost weight on the drug, but even company executives couldn’t have guessed how widely it would eventually take off as both ...
Source: TIME: Health - November 7, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized Drugs feature healthscienceclimate Magazine TIME 2030 Wellbeing Source Type: news
Birth Defects Higher in Offspring of Teen, Young Adult Women With Cancer History
FRIDAY, Nov. 3, 2023 -- For adolescent and young adult (AYA) women with a history of cancer, offspring have increased risk of any birth defect and specific defects, according to a study published online Oct. 4 in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - November 3, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
PET/MRI reveals effects of COVID-19 vaccines in children
In this study, they hypothesized that F-18 FDG-PET/MRI may reveal activation in the thymus in pediatric oncology patients in addition to lymph node reactions.The group assessed scans of six children with extrathoracic cancer before and after COVID-19 vaccination. They analyzed both PET and MRI biomarkers, such as uptake of F-18 FDG radiotracer (maximum standard uptake values, or SUVmax), mean apparent diffusion coefficient on MRI, and size of the thymus and axillary lymph nodes.There was a significant increase in the metabolic activity in the ipsilateral axillary lymph nodes across all patients after COVID-19 vaccination, ...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - October 30, 2023 Category: Radiology Authors: Will Morton Tags: Clinical News Molecular Imaging Source Type: news
What is PM2.5 and the AQI?
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Air quality standards are made, measured and monitored by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) through the Clean Air Act. All potential pollutants are not necessarily monitored. Some of the most commonly monitored and studied are fine particulate matter, ground-level ozone, carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide, and sulfur dioxide.
Common fine particulate matter < 2.5 µm (PM2.5) sources include the natural sources of biomass burning, coal burning, road and soil dust, sea spray aerosols, wildfire particles, and volcanic dust. Human sources of PM2.5 include residential cooking and heating, farming, ...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - October 30, 2023 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Pediatric Education Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
Ugandan teenage cancer patient: How a bed saved my life
Many young Ugandan patients stop free treatment as their families cannot afford other hidden costs. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - October 24, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
