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  Brain Zap Treatment Could Get Arms, Hands Moving After Head Injury

  Patients who lose the use of their hands and arms after a stroke or traumatic brain injury could regain some function through deep brain stimulation (DBS), new research demonstrates. DBS involves surgical placement of electrodes to deliver...

  • Posted October 2, 2024
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  GLP-1 Weight-Loss Meds Could Interfere With Endoscopy, Colonoscopy

  Food left in the stomach or stool left in the bowel can impede a doctor’s ability to successfully perform an endoscopy or colonoscopy. Now, research finds this scenario is more likely if the patient is taking popular...

  • Posted October 1, 2024
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  U.S. Breast Cancer Deaths Keep Declining, Though Disparities Remain

  While women overall are less likely to die of breast cancer now, some alarming disparities remain, a new American Cancer Society (ACS) analysis warns. Death rates for American Indian and Alaska Native women haven’t changed for the...

  • Posted October 1, 2024
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  California Bans 6 Artificial Dyes in Foods Served at Public Schools

  A new law just passed in California makes it the first state to tell public schools they may no longer serve foods that contain six artificial dyes linked to health and behavior problems among children. Gov. Gavin...

  • Posted October 1, 2024
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  Outbreak of Ebola-Like Marburg Virus in Rwanda Has Killed 8 People

  A rare, highly contagious Ebola-like virus has claimed eight lives in Rwanda, and U.S. health officials are closely monitoring the outbreak. Marburg virus causes a rare hemorrhagic fever that has no authorized vaccine or treatment.  No cases...

  • Posted October 1, 2024
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  Bogus ‘Conversion Therapy’ Leads to Higher Risk of Mental Illness for LGBT People

  Besides being useless in altering a person’s sexuality or gender identity, so-called “conversion therapy” or “conversion practice” can greatly raise the odds that an LGBT person experiences mental health issues, new research finds. Questionnaires completed by over...

  • Posted October 1, 2024
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  COVID Shot Lowers Your Odds for COVID-linked Heart Trouble

  While rare, heart-related side effects sometimes follow a COVID-19 vaccine shot, new research shows that’s more than offset by heart-healthy benefits. Folks who are fully vaccinated are significantly less likely to develop serious heart problems stemming from...

  • Posted October 1, 2024
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  Outpatient CAR-T Cancer Therapy Can Be Safe, Effective

  Patients with  a fast-spreading blood cancer respond well to outpatient treatment with CAR-T therapy, the largest study examining its use in a community setting has found. CAR-T is shorthand for chimeric antigen receptor therapy. In this treatment,...

  • Posted October 1, 2024
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  Black, White Cancer Patients Now Benefit Equally From Cord Blood Therapy

  Blood cancer patients of all races who receive cord blood transplants are now living longer. The finding, reported by a team led by oncologist Dr. Karen Ballen, of UVA (University of Virginia) Health, shows that a previously...

  • Posted October 1, 2024
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  Drug Industry Taking Bigger Role in Clinical Cancer Trials

  Clinical trials sponsored by Big Pharma enrolled eight times as many patients as U.S.-government trials did between 2018 and 2022, new research shows. The study — conducted by researchers at Fred Hutch Cancer Center in Seattle —...

  • Posted October 1, 2024
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