Substances present in cooked meats are associated with increased wheezing in children, Mount Sinai researchers report. Their study, published in Thorax, highlights pro-inflammatory compounds called advanced glycation end-products (AGEs) as an example of early dietary risk factors that may have broad clinical and public health implications for the prevention of inflammatory airway disease. Asthma prevalence
Month: December 2020
21 December 2020 — AstraZeneca’s Tagrisso (osimertinib) has been approved in the US for the adjuvant treatment of adult patients with early-stage epidermal growth factor receptor-mutated (EGFRm) non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) after tumour resection with curative intent. Tagrisso is indicated for EGFRm patients whose tumours have exon 19 deletions or exon 21 L858R mutations as detected by an
President-Elect Joe Biden delivers remarks before the holiday at The Queen in Wilmington, Delaware on December 22, 2020. Alex Edelman | AFP | Getty Images President-elect Joe Biden on Tuesday urged Americans to remain “vigilant” over the holidays, adding that Pfizer‘s and Moderna‘s coronavirus vaccines likely won’t stop the deaths of “tens of thousands” people
A new study looking at the results of testing children for COVID-19 through a Children’s National Hospital community-based testing site found that one in four patients had a positive test. The findings, reported online Dec. 18 in The Journal of Pediatrics, reinforce that children and young adults are impacted by the virus more than originally
Over the years, our team has done webinars and written blogs and articles covering all kinds of things that come up during the holiday season when you are dealing with a cancer diagnosis. We thought it would be useful to provide a guide of sorts to all these resources. We hope these resources can help
Gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding was observed in 3% of hospitalized COVID-19 patients, and a bleed developing during hospitalization was tied to greater mortality, a large New York cohort study found. Anticoagulation or antiplatelet agents were not risk factors for GI bleeding but neither did they protect against them, reported Arvind J. Trindade, MD, of the Feinstein
As the world grapples with the COVID-19 pandemic, GreaterGood has been working hard to do its part to bring masks and other personal protective equipment to frontline workers and essential employees in the U.S. and across the globe. Our original goal was to donate one million masks to those who need them most. Not only
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From a woman who has learnt the lessons herself, we share tips for finding confidence and power when working in male-dominated environments Being a woman working in male-dominated environments can be challenging, as Gemma Gratton knows all-to-well, having spent 17 years in the construction industry. Here, she shares her tips for how to thrive: 1.
A common-sense question: If the coronavirus travels via respiratory droplets; if it can hang around in the breathable air, and under the right conditions (bad ventilation, for example) travel more than 6 feet; then is it reasonable to assume washing out the nostrils with the right product would temper the virus’ activity? Could someone flush the
The latest chapter in the saga of an initially little-noticed and then retracted journal paper has found its way to a US District Court docket. In an article published this past March in the Journal of the American Heart Association (JAHA), Norman C. Wang, MD, an electrophysiologist at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC),
The site endchildpoverty.org has two goals: to enable vulnerable families to access support over the Christmas break via an interactive map that lists local support facilities, and to encourage nationwide support, donations, and volunteers to fight food poverty. Many local authorities, businesses, food banks, NGOs, charities, and sporting organisations have pledged their support, offering food
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. LOS ANGELES (AP) — California’s overwhelmed hospitals are setting up makeshift extra beds for coronavirus patients, and a handful of facilities in hard-hit Los Angeles County are drawing up emergency plans in case they have to limit how many people receive
Posted on December 21, 2020 by Mari Evans Hugging grandchildren. Bunco parties. Laughing with good friends. These are just a few of the heartfelt reasons Atria residents gave for “sleeving up” today as they were among the first in the country to receive the COVID-19 vaccine. The first round of vaccines was administered today at
I love being active in the diabetes online community. Not only do I get great advice, and have made some great friends, I get to pay it forward and help all those newly diagnosed just like the people in our community helped me. I immediately stopped scrolling through my feed when I saw this adorable
18 December 2020 — The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has requested further clarifying analyses of clinical data, to complete its review of the New Drug Application (NDA) for roxadustat, an oral hypoxia-inducible factor prolyl hydroxylase (HIF-PH) inhibitor for patients with anemia of chronic kidney disease (CKD). AstraZeneca and FibroGen, Inc. (FibroGen) are committed
This year was pretty tough for most of us. If there is one thing I can take away right now is that we are all, collectively, grieving. Photo: Pixabay Some of us have lost family and friends—to cancer, to COVID, to accidents. Some of us have lost our jobs and financial well-being. Some of us
FDA Approves Orgovyx (relugolix) as the First Oral Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone (GnRH) Receptor Antagonist for Advanced Prostate Cancer BASEL, Switzerland, Dec. 18, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Myovant Sciences (NYSE: MYOV), a healthcare company focused on redefining care for women and for men, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Orgovyx (relugolix)
The U.S. is looking at why a handful of people have suffered from severe allergic reactions shortly after receiving Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine shots, a National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases official told CNBC on Monday. The study – which is still in the early planning phases – is expected to include “several hundred” people
Children of mothers who drink relatively more cow’s milk during breastfeeding are at reduced risk of developing food allergies. That is the conclusion of researchers from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, in a new study published in the scientific journal Nutrients. The result is based on a survey of more than 500 Swedish women’s eating
A mixed bag of outcomes was seen after fecal microbiome transplantation (FMT) using oral capsules in adolescents with obesity, according to a randomized trial. Looking at 87 kids from New Zealand, those who underwent a single course of an oral encapsulated FMT didn’t see a significant benefit in regard to body mass index (BMI) standard
A few days after sharing that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer, a Women’s Super League soccer player in the UK scored a goal and was named Player of the Match. Jen Beattie, an Arsenal Women and Scotland defender, found out that she had breast cancer in October. She’s been playing ever since, including
A decade ago, women diagnosed with ovarian cancer had few options for treatment. Surgery, chemotherapy and radiation were standard practice. Those therapies are still in use today, but, thanks to research and new technologies, ovarian cancer patients have additional, and sometimes more effective, options for treatment.
Following the news that Christmas 2020 will be very different for households across the UK, Happiful’s head writer, Kathryn Wheeler, reflects on managing bad news and finding hope in hard times, and reaches out to mental health professionals for their advice It was midday Saturday 19 December when I first started picking up on whispers
Ted Shieh, MD, developed a passion for environmental advocacy after an oil tanker crashed and spilled crude oil on a Taiwan beach where he had spent many happy days during his childhood. When his family moved to Southern California, Shieh continued to spend a lot of time at the beach and witnessed how untreated sewage
When a loved one is struggling with the way they look, it can be difficult to know what to say. So, with this in mind, we share essential tips for supporting someone who’s experiencing body images concerns When we talk about self-image, we’re generally referring to how someone sees, and feels about, their appearance. This
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. An influential federal advisory panel on Sunday voted to recommend that the elderly and certain essential workers be the next groups of Americans to get access to limited doses of COVID-19 vaccine. The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) of the
The growth of prenatal screening in Europe has reduced the number of babies being born per year with Down syndrome (DS) by an average of 54%, according to a new study published in the European Journal of Human Genetics by researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and international Down syndrome organizations. In research published in
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