Joint pain can have ‘significantly higher’ impact on women both physically and emotionally 40 per cent of women reported a decline in their mental health due to joint pain Women are more likely to suffer badly from joint problems than men, a survey has found. Almost half (47 per cent) of women with joint pain […]
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Gene-tweaked stem cells offer hope against sickle cell disease
A type of gene therapy that precisely “edits” a key bit of DNA might offer a new way to treat sickle cell disease—a painful inherited condition that largely strikes Black children and adults. That’s according to a new study in the New England Journal of Medicine describing the treatment—a one-time but intensive process. So far, […]
A spike in births and other potential impacts of Texas abortion restrictions
In September 2021, Texas passed Senate Bill 8, or SB8, which banned abortions as early as five weeks after the start of a patient’s last menstrual cycle. The measure effectively banned abortion in the state—where previously abortions up to 22 weeks gestation were permitted. When 2022 birth data became available, demographic researcher Suzanne Bell, Ph.D., […]
Warning over finger-prick tests used for IVF and menopause
Finger-prick hormone tests used by women going through IVF and menopause may be unreliable, experts warn The tests, which analyse the blood, are sold by online for between £50 and £180 READ MORE: Doctors fear women are taking dangerously high amounts of HRT An online finger-prick hormone test used by menopausal women could provide unreliable […]
Postpartum Strokes Are Rare, But Fertility Treatments May Increase Your Risk
The postpartum experience is can be a stressful and even scary time when it comes to your health. Your body is dealing with the aftermath of childbirth and all the physical and mental challenges that come with it, including postpartum depression and anxiety. Pregnancy-related stroke is considered a rare health outcome, but it’s another anxiety-inducing […]
Record numbers take prostate cancer checks following the death of Bill Turnbull
The BBC newsreader, who died one year ago today, and Stephen Fry are thought to have fuelled the surge by speaking publicly about their diagnoses. Both revealed they had the disease in 2018. During the week after Mr Turnbull’s death aged 66, 61,000 people used Prostate Cancer UK’s online risk checker – a 2,500 percent […]
How nutrition guidance can optimize fertility treatments for female cancer survivors
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Experts Debate Low-Carb Diets for People With Diabetes
It’s an ongoing debate in the diabetes world: Is it ideal to consume a very low carbohydrate diet, or is it better to go with moderate amounts of healthful carbs? At the recent American Diabetes Association (ADA) 83rd Scientific Sessions, Carol F. Kirkpatrick, PhD, RDN, spoke first, arguing in favor of diets consisting of moderate, […]
Growing concerns about newly emerging Pirola BA.2.86, a SARS-CoV-2 subvariant
Scientists around the world are growing more concerned about a newly emerging subvariant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus—named BA.2.86 and referred to generically as “Pirola”—according to Mun-Keat Loo, international features editor for the medical journal BMJ. In his paper published on the site, Loo says that research conducted thus far on the variant suggests it has […]
Dual acting drug delivers blood cancer a lethal ‘one-two’ punch in mice
Melbourne researchers have designed a single drug that delivers a lethal “one-two” punch to several types of blood cancer in preclinical studies and could lead to improved treatments. The collaboration between medicinal chemists, laboratory and clinician scientists at Monash University and Peter MacCallum Cancer Center developed a single drug that works like two cancer drugs […]