All posts by LadyLively

  • Breast Cancer Drug Could Trigger Dangerous High Blood Sugar

    For certain patients with advanced breast cancer, a drug called Piqray (alpelisib) may extend survival. But new research confirms the medication often causes seriously high blood sugar levels. “This is a very effective drug that we should...

    • Posted September 25, 2023
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  • Heat-Related Deaths Could Break Records This Year in Phoenix, America’s Hottest City

    Phoenix, already the hottest major city in the nation, experienced its most scorching summer on record this year, new data shows. And that will likely prompt the highest number of heat-associated deaths ever reported in the city...

    • Posted September 25, 2023
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  • Water Beads Can Expand Inside Body, Causing Kids Serious Harm. Should They Be Banned?

    Ashley Haugen’s 13-month-old daughter, Kipley, woke up projectile vomiting in their Texas home one morning in July 2017. The Haugens took her to the doctor after it became apparent she wasn’t keeping anything down. After not responding...

    • Posted September 25, 2023
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  • President Biden Gets COVID, Flu Shots

    MONDAY, Sept. 25, 2023 (HealthDay News) – President Joe Biden has been freshly vaccinated for three major respiratory viruses that could spread widely this fall and winter. Biden got both the updated COVID booster and his annual...

    • Posted September 25, 2023
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  • Psychotherapy May Help Ease Fibromyalgia Pain

    “Talk therapy” may help people with fibromyalgia manage their chronic pain — and alter the brain’s pain-processing circuitry along the way, a new study shows. Researchers found that after eight sessions of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), patients...

    • Posted September 25, 2023
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  • Surgeons Perform Transplant of Gene-Tweaked Pig Heart Into Second Patient

    A second human patient has received a genetically altered pig heart as he battles the ravages of end-stage heart disease. The 58-year-old man, Lawrence Faucette, received the pig organ at the University of Maryland Medical Center in...

    • Posted September 25, 2023
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  • Your Wrist Could Give Clues to Future Health

    One day, it may be possible to monitor people for risk of disease through continuously measuring skin temperature. Researchers have found in a new study that wrist temperature is associated with future risk of disease. “These findings...

    • Posted September 25, 2023
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  • Weight-Loss Surgery Could Lower Odds for Blood Cancers

    Weight-loss surgery can deliver a host of health benefits, but new research reveals an unexpected one: Getting the surgery was associated with a 40% lower risk of blood cancers. Being overweight or obese is a risk factor...

    • Posted September 25, 2023
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  • Tear Gas Might Harm a Woman’s Reproductive Health

    Researchers in Minnesota have uncovered a new link between tear gas exposures and negative effects on reproductive health. The study was prompted by anecdotal reports of irregular menstrual cycles among protestors who were exposed to tear gas...

    • Posted September 25, 2023
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  • Unsafe Neighborhoods Have Higher Levels of Child Abuse

    Having safer neighborhoods, where families feel less stress, can help prevent child abuse, according to new research that supports this long-suspected theory. When parents feel higher levels of stress or hopelessness about their surroundings, they may have...

    • Posted September 25, 2023
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