All posts by LadyLively

  • More Women Are Being Diagnosed With Breast Cancer at Later Stages

    More breast cancers are being detected later in women, giving the tumors a chance to spread and become life-threatening, a new study finds. This increase in late-stage breast cancer affects women at all ages and ethnicities, according...

    • Posted December 10, 2024
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  • Opioid Abuse Can Change the Brain

    “This is your brain on drugs,” the old anti-drug admonition says, and now a new study has found there’s something to that chestnut. Opioid addicts experienced structural and functional changes in specific regions of their brains, MRI...

    • Posted December 10, 2024
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  • Ultra-processed Foods May Raise Colon Cancer Risk

    Fatty, salty and sugary ultra-processed foods could be increasing people’s risk of colon cancer by spurring chronic inflammation in the gut. In a new study, colon tumors taken from people with poor diets had higher levels of...

    • Posted December 10, 2024
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  • Wildfire Smoke Is Choking America’s Cities — Is Yours on the List?

    Heavy smoke from wildfires more frequently chokes the skies over the Western United States, but cities farther to the east are no longer being spared, new research shows. Canada’s unusually intense 2023 wildfire season smothered American cities...

    • Posted December 10, 2024
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  • Group of Nobel Laureates Press Senate to Reject Kennedy’s Nomination

    Robert Kennedy Jr. should not be confirmed to lead the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, over 75 Nobel laureates urged Monday. In a letter published by the New York Times, the esteemed scientists took issue...

    • Posted December 10, 2024
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  • GLP-1 Meds May Lower Clot Risk in People With Diabetes

    People with diabetes who are taking GLP-1 meds such as Ozempic or Mounjaro may be getting an added bonus: Reductions in their odds for a dangerous blood clot, new research finds. The study found that folks with...

    • Posted December 10, 2024
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  • 1 in 6 U.S. Adults With Asthma Can’t Afford Meds

    Over 3 million Americans with asthma can’t afford to take their medications as prescribed, a new poll estimates. In total, about 1 in 6 folks with asthma are struggling to cover the costs of inhalers and other...

    • Posted December 10, 2024
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  • Teens, Booze and E-Scooters: A Rising Threat as Injuries Crowd ERs

    Inebriated e-scooter and e-bike users, many of them teens, are increasingly showing up in the nation’s emergency rooms, new research shows. Overall, rates of injuries from these “micromobility” devices have tripled in recent years — from close...

    • Posted December 10, 2024
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  • Gene Therapy Reverses Heart Failure in Pig Trials

    Failing hearts nearly returned to full function in laboratory pigs after they received an experimental gene therapy. New research shows the gene therapy didn’t just prevent heart failure from worsening in four lab pigs, but actually prompted...

    • Posted December 10, 2024
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  • Bed Sores Can Slow Neurological Recovery After Spinal Cord Injury

    Bed sores can be more than debilitating and painful. Now a new study shows they can also dramatically impact a person’s recovery from a spinal cord injury. “Our study found that patients with pressure ulcers ...

    • Posted December 10, 2024
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