Category: 4. Health

  • Perfectly timed cancer combo wipes out tumors by supercharging the immune system

    Perfectly timed cancer combo wipes out tumors by supercharging the immune system

    Head and neck squamous cell carcinomas (HNSCC) are a group of cancers that affect cells in and around our mouth and nose. With 890,000 new cases and 450,000 deaths annually, HNSCC accounts for roughly 4.5% of cancer diagnoses and deaths worldwide. Treatment options for HNSCC are very limited, so nearly half of affected patients with HNSCC die from the disease. Current therapies consist of surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy, which can be effective but often have limited success and…

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  • Amanda Kloots Is Trying To Shift Mindsets About Pain And Recovery

    Amanda Kloots Is Trying To Shift Mindsets About Pain And Recovery

    You could say that Amanda Kloots is on a recovery mission of sorts. The dancer, fitness instructor and co-host of the TV show The Talk from 2021 to 2024 certainly has a long history of go-go-go and pushing through pain. But her…

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  • Liver Cancer Cases Are On The Rise. Here’s How To Avoid Getting It

    Liver Cancer Cases Are On The Rise. Here’s How To Avoid Getting It

    The number of new liver cancer cases will nearly double in the next 25 years, if no public health interventions occur, according to a new global study published in The Lancet. According to the study, there will be more than 1.5 million new cases of liver cancer globally by 2050, up from more than 850,000 in 2022.

    Liver cancer is…

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  • 15-Year Long Stagnant Life Expectancy Trend In U.S. Continues

    15-Year Long Stagnant Life Expectancy Trend In U.S. Continues

    Approximately 525,000 more deaths occurred in the United States in 2023 than would have been expected based on pre-2010 mortality trends. The large number of excess deaths can be attributed to many different diseases and conditions. Cardiovascular disease continues to top the causes of mortality, along with cancer. But medical errors, overdose fatalities, gun deaths, infant mortality and other…

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  • Breakthrough lung cancer treatment supercharges immune cells with mitochondria

    Breakthrough lung cancer treatment supercharges immune cells with mitochondria

    While chemotherapy remains a cornerstone of lung cancer treatment, it often weakens the immune system it relies on for long-term control. Now, researchers have found a way to turn this weakness into strength — by transplanting healthy mitochondria into the tumor environment. In advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), combining mitochondrial transplantation with cisplatin not only enhanced immune cell infiltration but also reversed tumor metabolism and improved the drug’s effectiveness….

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  • This vaccine uses dental floss instead of needles

    This vaccine uses dental floss instead of needles

    Researchers have demonstrated a novel vaccine delivery method in an animal model, using dental floss to introduce vaccine via the tissue between the teeth and gums. The testing found that the new technique stimulates the production of antibodies in mucosal surfaces, such as the lining of the nose and lungs.

    “Mucosal surfaces are important, because they are a source of entry for pathogens, such as influenza and COVID,” says Harvinder Singh Gill, corresponding author of a paper on the work….

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  • This new drug could help PTSD patients finally let go of trauma

    This new drug could help PTSD patients finally let go of trauma

    Did you know that patients with post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) often struggle to forget traumatic memories, even long after the danger has passed? This failure to extinguish fear memories has long puzzled scientists and posed a major hurdle for treatment, especially since current medications targeting serotonin receptors offer limited relief for only a subset of patients.

    In a new discovery, scientists at the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) and Ewha Womans University have uncovered…

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  • Weight loss drug Ozempic could protect the brain from stroke

    Weight loss drug Ozempic could protect the brain from stroke

    Three studies presented recently at the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery’s (SNIS) 22nd Annual Meeting discussed whether using GLP-1 inhibitors could lessen the impacts of stroke and related brain injuries or reduce the risk of stroke altogether. These medications, which lower blood sugar and often cause weight loss, are commonly prescribed for type 2 diabetes and obesity and include drugs like semaglutide (Ozempic).

    In the first study, “The Impact of Semaglutide (Ozempic) on Mortality…

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  • Trump Says He Will Get Drug Prices Down By 1500%

    Trump Says He Will Get Drug Prices Down By 1500%

    U.S. President Donald Trump is now promising to get pharmaceutical companies to significantly reduce the drug prices that they are charging Americans. On Thursday, the White House announced…

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  • Hidden gene in leukemia virus could revolutionize HIV treatment

    Hidden gene in leukemia virus could revolutionize HIV treatment

    A research team from Kumamoto University has made a groundbreaking discovery that reveals how the human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV-1) silently persists in the body, potentially laying the foundation for new therapeutic approaches. Their findings, published on May 13, 2025, in Nature Microbiology, identify a previously unknown genetic “silencer” element that keeps the virus in a dormant, undetectable state.

    HTLV-1 is a cancer-causing retrovirus known to lead to adult T-cell…

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