Category: 4. Health

In a trial where cancers were treated with chemotherapy followed by a targeted cancer drug before surgery, 100% of patients survived the critical three-year period post-surgery.

The discovery, published today in Nature Communications, could become the most effective treatment to date for patients with early-stage breast cancer with…

Researchers found that some combinations of illnesses — particularly cardiometabolic ones like diabetes and heart disease — could more than double the likelihood of a future depression diagnosis.

With multimorbidity — when patients live with two or more chronic conditions — continuing to put pressure on an already stretched healthcare system, experts say…

Dr. Mehmet Oz, the new administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, has said he wants to give “power to the people.” Well, OK, he didn’t use those exact words, but healthcare consumer power was the core idea behind his stated goals of “empowering the American people”…

Grey’s Anatomy star Kate Walsh called this decision a “no brainer” in both a serious and punny way. It’s her decision to team up with the company GRAIL to advocate for more multi-cancer early detection testing in a campaign they’re calling “Generation Possible.”

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Fighting fungi isn’t easy.

Season two of the streaming series The Last of Us has arrived on Max (light spoilers ahead), bringing viewers back to a world where people combat zombies puppeteered by a mind-controlling fungus. Guns and flames help the characters survive onscreen. In the real world, fighting fungal infections is less action-packed, but no less fraught.

At the heart of the show is Ellie (Bella Ramsey), a girl immune to the pandemic fungus. The new season picks up…

Republicans in Congress intend to cut about US$880 billion in federal health care spending.

One of their primary targets is Medicaid. That government program covers 82 million Americans with health insurance. Most of the people enrolled in the program are low income, have disabilities, or both.

Medicaid, jointly funded by the federal government and the states, is also the biggest funder in the U.S. of long-term care services, whether they are delivered in the patient’s home,…

President Donald Trump didn’t…

Physician assistants are increasing in number and so is their pay, eclipsing $130,000 a year, according to new data from two groups.

The American Academy of Physician…

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