CHC: Creating Healthier Communities awards funds to Georgia communities to help prevent one of the most common forms of cancer
Healthy Savannah, East Georgia Cancer Coalition, and Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Power & Potential join CHC to focus on vaccination equity to prevent cervical cancer in Macon, Savannah, Augusta, and the surrounding areas. ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 23, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- CHC:... (Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals)
Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals - April 23, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Tags: NPT LIC Source Type: news
Millions of Girls in Africa Will Miss HPV Shots After Merck Production Problem
The company has told countries that it can supply only 18.8 million of the 29.6 million doses it was contracted to deliver this year. (Source: NYT Health)
Source: NYT Health - April 18, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Stephanie Nolen Tags: Sexually Transmitted Diseases Vaccination and Immunization Developing Countries Cervical Cancer Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Women and Girls Medicine and Health Teenagers and Adolescence Children and Childhood Gardasil (Vaccine) Source Type: news
Today's Young Adults Are Aging Faster, and That Might Help Spur Cancers
MONDAY, April 8, 2024 -- Younger generations are aging more rapidly, and this could be leading to an increased risk of cancer, a new study says.People born in or after 1965 are 17% more likely to be experiencing accelerated aging compared to... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - April 8, 2024 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
PET/MRI detects brain injury in pediatric cancer survivors
PET/MRI could be a tool for diagnosing brain injury in young cancer survivors due to high-dose methotrexate treatment, according to pediatric radiologists at Stanford University in Stanford, CA.
In a pilot study in 10 children and young adults, F-18 FDG-PET/MRI detected brain injury based on reductions in glucose metabolism and blood flow in specific brain areas. The imaging findings could facilitate earlier treatments in these patients, noted lead author Lucia Baratto, MD, and colleagues.
“Using F-18 FDG-PET/MRI for assessing the cerebral impact of methotrexate therapy in pediatric cancer survivors holds the potential...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - April 8, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: Will Morton Tags: Molecular Imaging Source Type: news
How to Talk to Kids When a Parent Has Cancer
The U.S. is expected to hit a bleak milestone this year: For the first time, more than 2 million people will be diagnosed with cancer. More than 600,000 will die, according to projections from the American Cancer Society.
Yet when you consider how many people are affected by a single diagnosis, those numbers balloon. As people with cancer grapple with fears about their health, they often describe being equally anxious about how their news will affect their family. When Catherine, Princess of Wales, revealed on March 22 that she was being treated for cancer, she emphasized that she and her husband had “taken time t...
Source: TIME: Health - April 4, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Sarah Klein Tags: Uncategorized Evergreen freelance healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Why Are So Many Young People Getting Cancer? It ’s Complicated
Just this month, two young, high-profile public figures announced that they have cancer. First, Olivia Munn, 43, disclosed that she was treated for breast cancer after catching it early. Days later, Kate Middleton, 42, announced she has been receiving treatment for an unspecified form of cancer.
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Their diagnoses spotlight a troubling trend: both in the U.S. and around the world, cancer diagnoses are growing more common among adults younger than 50. By 2030, one recent study estimated, the number of these early-onset cancer diagnoses could increase by roughly 30% worldwide&md...
Source: TIME: Health - March 26, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Robert Plant, Eddie Vedder and Roger Daltrey Team Up on Who ’s ‘Baba O’Riley’ At Teenage Cancer Trust Benefit
The Who singer Roger Daltrey celebrated his final performance as the curator of the annual Teenage Cancer Trust concerts after 24 years on Sunday night, ending his nearly quarter-century run with an epic, all-star performance of one of his band’s most beloved songs. The “Ovation” concert at…#rogerdaltrey #teenagecancertrust #royalalberthall #pearljams #eddievedder #robertplant #glenhansard #stereophonics #kellyjones #petetownshends (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 26, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Association between adverse childhood experiences and self-reported health-risk behaviors among cancer survivors: a population-based study - Sarkar S, Jackson B, Manzo LL, Jeon S, Poghosyan H.
AIMS: Existing evidence shows that people who report Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are more likely to exhibit health-risk behaviors. However, limited research on this topic pertains to oncology population. We aim to address this knowledge gap by est... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 23, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
How only 10% of all cancers are in adults under 50 but experts warn of an 'epidemic' of disease in young adults after Kate Middleton's shock diagnosis
Reacting to Kate Middleton's shock diagnosis, experts today warned of an ongoing 'epidemic' of the disease among younger people. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - March 22, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Childhood cancer control: pushing for progress in WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region
11 March 2024 – Globally, more than 400 000 children and adolescents aged 0–19 years are diagnosed with cancer every year. Latest Global Cancer Observatory estimates for the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Region show that there were about 36 000 new cases of paediatric cancers and 16 500 deaths in 2022.
Experts from every country and territory of the Region, international partners, and WHO colleagues from headquarters and various regional offices came together last week to accelerate action to fight childhood cancer. The occasion was a 2-day workshop on “Empowering progress: strengthening implementation of the WHO Global...
Source: WHO EMRO News - March 11, 2024 Category: Middle East Health Source Type: news
UT Health San Antonio secures $16.4 million from CPRIT over six months, adding transformative expertise, bolstering cancer research
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio uses funding from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas to attract top researchers and advance child and adolescent cancer research. SAN ANTONIO, March 7, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The University of Texas Health... (Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals)
Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals - March 8, 2024 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Popular Acne-Treatment Products Found to Contain High Levels of Carcinogenic Chemical
Hand sanitizers were tainted by benzene. Sunscreens and dry shampoos too. Now acne treatments are joining the list of widely used consumer products found to contain high levels of the chemical linked to cancer.
Acne products from brands including Proactiv, Target Corp.’s Up & Up and Clinique have elevated levels of the carcinogen, an independent testing laboratory said in a petition filed with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration late Tuesday. The lab asked the FDA to recall the affected treatments—all of which contain the active ingredient benzoyl peroxide—while regulators investigate.
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Source: TIME: Health - March 7, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Anna Edney / Bloomberg Tags: Uncategorized News Desk overnight wire Source Type: news
Ethiopia: Bureau Launches HPV Vaccine Campaign for Girls Aged 14
[Ethiopian Herald] Addis Ababa Health Bureau (AAHB) has launched a cervical cancer prevention vaccine (HPV) campaign for teenagers aged 14. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 6, 2024 Category: African Health Tags: East Africa Ethiopia Health and Medicine Source Type: news
BAMF Health to partner with Corewell Health
BAMF Health and Corewell Health Haworth Innovative Therapeutics Clinic plan to collaborate on a clinical trial to test targeted radiation therapy for cancer patients.
The phase I trial is sponsored by Y-mAbs Therapeutics and will include both adolescent and adult patients with recurrent or resistant small-cell lung cancer, sarcoma, and malignant melanoma. Trial participants will receive tumor-targeting treatment with an antibody that binds to a protein called GD-2 on the surface of the cancer cells, then a radioisotope infusion that binds to the antibody and delivers the radiation to cancer cells, BAMF Health said. (Sourc...
Source: AuntMinnie.com Headlines - March 4, 2024 Category: Radiology Authors: AuntMinnie.com staff writers Tags: Industry News Source Type: news
Zyn Is the New Vaping
Not so long ago, Juul was seen as the new Marlboro. Smoking wasn’t that cool anymore—rates had plummeted among U.S. adults and teens—but then came Juul, a sleek, addictive product with flashy advertising tactics that took off like wildfire. It soon became clear that e-cigarettes were hooking teens who otherwise wouldn’t have gone near nicotine.
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Now, Juul is out and Zyn is in. It’s even more discreet than Juul, with no plumes of vapor. A user simply tucks a small pouch of nicotine, additives, and flavorings under their lip for up to an hour. Over...
Source: TIME: Health - March 4, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
