Parkinson’s disease: Dr Chris on how to spot early signs According to recent research, released on October 2, 2023, loneliness is associated with an increased risk of developing the brain disorder. For the study, the team of researchers analysed the health profiles of 491,603 participants within a 15-year period. All participants, from the UK Biobank, didn’t have a Parkinson’s diagnosis […]
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This Morning: Breast cancer examination Breast cancer is already the most common cancer in the UK, Cancer Research UK says, and with cases expected to rise, people should learn the symptoms. Dr Natalie Klar, a breast oncologist at NYU Langone’s Perlmutter Cancer Center, said the first noticeable symptom would be a change in the breast. This could be a palpable […]
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The breast cancers that DON’T start with a lump: Two survivors of rarer subtypes of disease issue warning to other women about symptoms that doctors nearly missed Neither woman felt a lump in their breast before visiting their doctors Following their experiences, they urge others to pay attention to their bodies READ MORE: America’s fight back against breast cancer laid bare […]
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TOPLINE: An artificial intelligence (AI) model shows potential for detecting early-stage, “hidden” pancreatic cancer on scans of asymptomatic individuals, paving the way for surgical intervention and cure, new research suggests. METHODOLOGY: The researchers utilized a diverse dataset of 3014 CT scans: 1105 diagnostic CT scans with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA) and 1909 control CT scans. Of the total, 696 diagnostic […]
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Men of all races and ethnic groups who have prostate cancer fare equally well when access to care is identical, a new study finds. The report was published online Oct. 11 in the journal JAMA Network Open. The disparity in outcomes from prostate cancer between Black, Hispanic and white men disappears when treatment and care are the same, as it […]
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The host Julie Rovner KFF Health News@jrovner Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of KFF Health News' weekly health policy news podcast, "What the Health?" A noted expert on health policy issues, Julie is the author of the critically praised reference book "Health Care Politics and Policy A to Z," now in its third edition. As House Republicans […]
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TOPLINE: In combination with methotrexate, both abatacept (Orencia) and certolizumab pegol (Cimzia), but not tocilizumab (Actemra), showed superiority over different combinations of active conventional disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) for promoting remission in patients with early, untreated rheumatoid arthritis (RA). METHODOLOGY: The study population included 812 adults from sites in six European countries who had treatment-naive early RA (less than 24 […]
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Sleep is not a state in which we are completely isolated from our environment: while we sleep, we are capable of hearing and understanding words. These observations, the result of close collaboration between teams at Paris Brain Institute and the Sleep Pathology Department at Pitié-Salpêtrière University Hospital in Paris, call into question the very definition of sleep and the clinical […]
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