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Violent Neighborhood Stress Linked to Aggressive Lung Cancer

BOSTON—Exposure to increased neighborhood violence has the power to change the glucocorticoid receptor (GR) for the stress hormone, cortisol, which may influence the aggressiveness...

Hot Flashes in Menopause May Up Heart, Metabolic Risk

BOSTON—Women experiencing moderate-to-severe vasomotor symptoms face a three times greater risk for metabolic-dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) compared to those with mild symptom severity,...

Treatable Factors May Ease Symptoms in Men Quitting Steroids

BOSTON—Men who illicitly used steroids to boost muscle size and physical performance and have stopped in the past year have impaired sexual function compared...

I was fit and healthy and about to turn 33 when I was diagnosed with an ‘old person’s cancer’ despite no family history. This...

A young mum-of-two was forced to stop working and put her studies on hold when she was handed a life-changing cancer diagnosis a week before...

Top End hospital leads the green revolution in health care – InSight+

A volunteer project at Royal Darwin Hospital (RDH) is using native landscapes to adapt to climate while enhancing wellbeing, Indigenous cultural security and...

Prevention of pregnancy complications should be a priority – InSight+

Prevention of common pregnancy complications has the potential to improve maternal health, reduce long term metabolic and cardiovascular risk, decrease transgenerational transmission of...

Weight loss: Zepbound effective for obesity-related health conditions

Share on PinterestAnti-obesity medication Zepbound (tirzepatide) delivers significant weight loss even in people with multiple obesity-related medical conditions, a new study found.The research challenges...

Study Finds COVID-19 May Damage Vision

The COVID-19 virus can breach the retinal barrier and potentially damage the eye, according to new research published in April 2024 in PLOS Pathogens.“This...

Advanced Lung Cancer Patients Get Stepped Palliative Care

About The Study: A stepped-care model, with palliative care visits occurring only at key points in patients' cancer trajectories and using a decrement in...

Nearly 20% of Breast Cancer Survivors Face Weight Gain

BOSTON—Almost one out of five breast cancer survivors may experience weight gain of more than 10%, suggests a study presented Monday at ENDO 2024,...

Immunotherapy Boosts Bowel Cancer-Free Patient Rates

An immunotherapy drug given before surgery instead of chemotherapy meant that over ten times more patients with a certain genetic profile were cancer free...

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