All posts by LadyLively

  • Antibody Drug Boosts Survival for Type of Advanced Breast Cancer

    A relatively new drug is boosting survival rates for women with a specific type of advanced breast cancer who haven’t responded to other treatments, according to a pair of clinical trials. The targeted antibody drug — trastuzumab...

    • Posted December 8, 2022
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  • Melanoma Patients Who Fail Standard Meds May Have Another Option

    An experimental therapy that uses the body’s own immune system cells may beat a standard treatment for patients with advanced melanoma, a new clinical trial finds. Researchers found that the therapy doubled the amount of time melanoma...

    • Posted December 8, 2022
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  • Lasik Surgery Should Carry Warnings of Possible Complications, FDA Says

    THURSDAY, Dec. 8, 2022 (HealthDay News) – Lasik eye surgery is a common vision-correcting procedure that many Americans view as safe and effective, but the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has now drafted guidance that warns of...

    • Posted December 8, 2022
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  • Statins May Lower Risk of Deadly ‘Bleeding’ Strokes

    Statins may do more than help your heart: New research shows the cholesterol-lowering drugs may also lower your risk for a bleeding stroke. An intracerebral hemorrhage, which involves bleeding in the brain, comprises about 15% to 30%...

    • Posted December 8, 2022
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  • Battling High Blood Pressure? Adding Yoga to Your Workout Might Help

    Adding a little yoga to an exercise routine can be the fix someone needs to drop high blood pressure, a small study suggests. “As observed in several studies, we recommend that patients try to find exercise and...

    • Posted December 8, 2022
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  • Is a Ban on Menthols Enough to Thwart Big Tobacco?

    A proposed U.S. federal ban on menthol cigarettes doesn’t go far enough and needs to include other menthol products, from pipe tobacco to cigarette tubes, researchers say. New evidence shows both the appeal and the addiction potential...

    • Posted December 8, 2022
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  • Special Human-Cat Bond May Have Started 10,000 Years Ago

    That special link you may have with a purring, four-legged friend has been going on between the species for millennia, new research shows. The human-cat relationship was probably forged over a shared interest in rats more than...

    • Posted December 8, 2022
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  • More Americans Are Moving to Wildfire-Prone Areas

    Some Americans appear to be moving from areas with frequent hurricanes and heat waves to places threatened by wildfire and rising heat. They’re trading in the risk of one set of natural disasters for another because the...

    • Posted December 8, 2022
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  • Health Highlights: Dec. 8, 2022​

    Melanoma patients who fail standard meds may have new option. An experimental therapy that uses the body’s own immune system cells may beat a standard treatment for patients with advanced melanoma, a new trial finds. Read more...

    • Posted December 8, 2022
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  • Paxlovid Soon Won’t Be Free for Americans

    The antiviral Paxlovid has kept people from getting really sick and dying from COVID-19 since it became available — at no cost to them. But by the middle of next year, the U.S. government will stop subsidizing...

    • Posted December 7, 2022
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