Better Health For Women

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (Credit: Win Mcnamee/Getty Images) By: Yasmeen Abutaleb & Mike DeBonis Source: Washington Post House Speaker Nancy Pelosi unveiled her long-awaited drug pricing measure on Thursday, an ambitious bill that would allow the federal government to negotiate the prices of up to 250 brand-name drugs in Medicare. Designed to help […] Read More

Source: ama-assn.org Words are important and should reflect the urgency of a situation. Therefore, the phenomenon of climate change is better understood as a climate crisis. And it’s not just another “issue,” but rather an emergency, says AMA member Jonathan Patz, MD, MPH. “Solving the global climate crisis could be the greatest opportunity of our […] Read More

Source: Medscape How Does It Compare With Caffeine From Coffee, or Nicotine From Cigarettes? We know you’ve been told all your life to slather on the sunscreen before a day spent outside. We’re not disputing that advice, but a new report in the Journal of the American Medical Association has given us some food for […] Read More

Source: Newsweek More adults below the age of 50 are being diagnosed with colorectal cancer compared with five decades ago, scientists say. And when younger patients are diagnosed, the disease is more likely to be picked up in the advanced three or four stages, at 51.6 percent versus 40 percent of those above 50. Between […] Read More

Source: Reuters Mutations in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes are associated with increased risks for breast, ovarian, and other cancers, but only certain women stand to benefit from genetic testing, according to updated recommendations from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF). “Whether or not the harms of risk assessment, counseling, testing, and interventions outweigh […] Read More

There is a growing body of evidence that excess body weight is an important risk factor for some cancers. The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) examined the preventative effects of weight management on cancer risk and found sufficient evidence that obesity and overweight increase the risk of developing 13 cancers10(Figure 1). It is […] Read More

Patients with fibromyalgia appear to have specific gut microbiome alterations that differ from their healthy peers, new research suggests. In the “first evidence” to show this connection, investigators found that women with fibromyalgia had significant differences in 19 species of gut bacteria compared with healthy controls. They also had higher serum levels of butyrate and […] Read More

Source: New York Times Sixteen states have now reported 153 cases of serious, vaping-related respiratory illnesses in the past two months, and many of the patients are teenagers or young adults. In a statement on Wednesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that all of the cases occurred in people who acknowledged vaping […] Read More