Just as many health issues affect women more or more severely than men — breast cancer, death from heart attacks and osteoarthritis to name a few — there are conditions and illnesses that plague women of color more regularly and…
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Blood test can predict clinical response to immunotherapy in metastatic NSCLC
Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients with higher measures of tumor mutations that show up in a blood test generally have a better clinical response to PD-1-based immunotherapy treatments than patients with a lower measure of mutations. A clinical trial…
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Why treat people exposed to virus in Omaha? Why not?
Of all places, why are 13 people potentially exposed to a viral outbreak being treated and observed in Omaha, Nebraska? Because nearly 20 years ago, a few doctors, public health experts and officials realized that nearly no one was meeting…
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Bill Gates Says We Need to Do 3 Things to Better Manage Pandemics
As public health officials rush to contain the new coronavirus, named COVID-19, Bill Gates warns now is the time to assess our ability to respond to outbreaks. His letter titled, “Responding to Covid-19 — A Once-in-a-Century Pandemic?” was published in…
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What’s next for coronavirus, how to avoid it, and will there be a vaccine?
As the new coronavirus, known in shorthand as COVID-19, continues to spread around the world, researchers, including those at the University of Virginia, are turning their attention to developing vaccines and antiviral drugs that could contain and treat the respiratory…
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Are US communities and hospitals ready to take on COVID-19?
—Live updates on the new coronavirus —How you can prepare for a coronavirus epidemic —Why are children ‘missing’ from coronavirus outbreak? —How coronavirus compares with flu —Will a face mask protect you? U.S. health officials have warned that the country…
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McVitie's is reducing sugar in nine favourite biscuits by up to 10%
You’re taking the biscuit! McVitie’s is reducing sugar in Digestives, Hobnobs and several other nation favourites by up to 10% Original Digestives now contain 9% less sugar and 5% cent less salt than before The owner of McVitie’s, said new…
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Teen Mothers Are More Likely to Deal With Mental Health Issues, Study Says
It’s no secret that motherhood comes with its own set of challenges that can be trying for your mental health — and if you’re dealing with depression or anxiety prior to becoming a parent, it isn’t just going to go…
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In small study, no sign that coronavirus can be passed to baby during pregnancy
(HealthDay)—There’s some good news about the new coronavirus: Preliminary research suggests that the virus cannot be transmitted from an infected pregnant woman to the fetus. The researchers stressed that the study population was small—just nine pregnant women—and a number of…
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Scientists link ulcerative colitis to missing gut microbes
About 1 million people in the United States have ulcerative colitis, a serious disease of the colon that has no cure and whose cause is obscure. Now, a study by Stanford University School of Medicine investigators has tied the condition…
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