I never in a million years dreamt this would ever be my story. But it turns out that young people get bowel cancer.   I first started feeling ‘off’ during Christmas 2020. Like many of us, I was working from my house (managing Airbnb rentals and holiday-let properties across the UK), enjoying home workouts, and occasional walks with a podcast.   For 360 days of […]

Dame Esther Rantzen ‘optimistic’ following lung cancer diagnosis The chances of surviving lung cancer for at least five years have more than doubled in the last two decades, figures show. In 2005, only nine percent of people who received a diagnosis were expected to be alive five years. Now, NHS analysis released ahead of the health service’s 75th birthday on […]

Medical expenditures for privately insured children, including out-of-pocket (OOP) expenditures, are higher for all body mass index (BMI) categories other than healthy weight, according to a study published online July 3 in JAMA Pediatrics. Ashutosh Kumar, Ph.D., from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, and colleagues estimated medical expenditures among U.S. youth across all BMI categories, […]

Siyuan Ding, PhD, an assistant professor of molecular microbiology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has received the 2023 Ann Palmenberg Junior Investigator Award from the American Society of Virology. The award recognizes junior investigators who have made significant contributions to the field of virology and who display exceptional promise. Ding studies intestinal viruses such as rotavirus, […]

Focal epilepsy affects over 30 million patients worldwide and is commonly caused by brain lesions, such as stroke. However, it is unclear why some lesion locations cause epilepsy while others do not. A new study by investigators from the Brigham and Women's Hospital, a founding member of the Mass General Brigham healthcare system, found that a common brain circuit may […]

New research criteria appear to accurately identify athletes in sports such as boxing or martial arts who will go on to develop chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). Developed in 2021 by the National Institutes of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), the aim of the development of traumatic encephalopathy syndrome (TES) criteria was to provide a way to diagnose the condition in […]

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A new study by investigators from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington and Mass General Brigham found that maternal mortality rates have worsened from 1999 to 2019, hitting some racial and ethnic groups and states harder than others. Their results are published in JAMA. “Maternal mortality is a crisis in the United States. […]

Eight tell-tale signs of perimenopause revealed, as Clare Richards from Steps details struggles with ‘horrendous’ symptoms Perimenopause  can cause hot flushes, sleep loss, palpitations and headaches  Read also: Claire Richards reveals she was housebound during perimenopause  Anxiety, hot flushes and a reduced sex drive are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the symptoms of the perimenopause. And for some […]

In a recent study in the PLOS Global Public Health Journal, researchers reviewed demographic and health surveys between 2006–2020 at the global scale to elucidate trends in zero vegetable or fruit consumption (ZVF) in infants. They found that almost 46% of the world follows the practice of ZVF consumption, with socioeconomic conditions and mothers' employment status being significant predictors. Study: Estimates […]