After a biopsy comes back positive for prostate cancer, patients and their doctors are often left with a choice between taking a watch-and-wait approach, known as active surveillance, or proceeding with surgery or radiation. And identifying which patients will benefit…
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Could poop transplants help treat COVID-19?
Poop transplants may have helped two patients with risk factors avoid severe COVID-19, a new case report suggests. But the study was only based on two patients and so the improvement could have occurred by chance or as a result…
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Exercise, mindfulness help children with ADHD
Just 10 minutes of exercise and 10 minutes of mindfulness meditation can help children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) with their mood, self-efficacy and attention. This is according to a new study from education professor Barbara Fenesi and co-authors…
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Can a drug in nit shampoo help treat COVID?
Can a drug in nit shampoo help treat Covid? That’s the controversial claim from some doctors and their patients, but what do the experts think? Reno Degisi felt so ill he thought he was dying. Last Christmas the 53-year-old building…
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Extra COVID vaccine may help protect transplant patients
A small study offers the first hint that an extra dose of COVID-19 vaccines just might give some organ transplant recipients a needed boost in protection. Even as most vaccinated people celebrate a return to near normalcy, millions who take…
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The Diet and Workout That Helped Me Lose 30 Pounds and Get Ripped in 3 Months
John Masgalas, 45, shares with Men’s Health the changes that helped him transform his body, achieve his goals, and find a new outlook on life. For 5 years, I worked out intensely, and was pretty muscular; I tracked my food…
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Antibiotics no help for mysterious lung-scarring disease, large trial finds
Doctors have hoped that antibiotics could benefit patients with chronic lung diseases, but a new study has found no benefit for patients with life-threatening idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in preventing hospitalization or death. While there were no statistical benefits for patients…
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New DNA research could help combat cancers resistant to current treatments
In a groundbreaking first, research led by Queen’s University Belfast has found thousands of “Achilles Heels’ or ‘cancer vulnerabilities’ in an analysis of more than 700 different cancer cell types. In the future, this could lead to new ways to…
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Apps That Can Help You Organize Your Professional Life
Remote work allowed us to spend more time doing leisure activities at home but it also brought a whole new set of complications. From double-booking yourself for Zoom meetings to collaborating with a team across different time zones, working from…
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Exercise can help support recovery of patients with lasting COVID symptoms, study finds
Patients with lasting symptoms of COVID-19 who completed a six-week, supervised rehabilitation program demonstrated significant improvements in exercise capacity, respiratory symptoms, fatigue and cognition, according to researchers at the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Leicester Biomedical Research Centre—a partnership…
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