Patients who quit smoking at or around the time of a lung cancer diagnosis live longer than those who continue to smoke, concludes a new meta-analysis. “Smokers who quit smoking at or around lung cancer diagnosis have a 29% improvement in their overall survival compared with those who continue smoking,” Saverio Caini, MD, PhD, Institute for Cancer Research, Prevention and […]

About seven out of ten patients (69%) who suffer from non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) perceive some stigmatization in their daily life, according to a study led by a team of the University of Barcelona, the Liver and Digestive Diseases Networking Biomedical Research Centre (CIBEREHD), the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona and the August Pi i Sunyer Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBAPS). […]

There’s a lot going on with the Kardashians right now — a divorce, a very public defamation case and their brand-new show, which was so popular it basically shut down Hulu on release day. In the midst of all the craziness, Khloé Kardashian was kind enough to gift us a much needed, absolutely adorable distraction — in the form of a sweet […]

For patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) taking buprenorphine, prescribing a stimulant medication may be a double-edged sword. Stimulants may lead to better engagement and retention in buprenorphine treatment, which is associated with a host of health benefits, but this may come at a cost of a modest increase in drug-related overdose risk, new research suggests. “It’s important for clinicians […]

Americans’ rates of depression and anxiety spiked during the first year of the pandemic, but the increases were much more pronounced among Black, Hispanic and Asian people than among white people, new research shows. From April 2020 to April 2021, the overall incidence of depression or anxiety in the United States rose from about 11% to close to 40%, but […]

For three decades, scientists have debated the underlying cause of Gulf War illness (GWI), a collection of unexplained and chronic symptoms affecting veterans of the Persian Gulf War. Now researchers led by Robert Haley, M.D., Professor of Internal Medicine and Director of the Division of Epidemiology at UT Southwestern, have solved the mystery, showing through a detailed genetic study that the nerve gas […]

The number of people being diagnosed with HIV in New Zealand continues to decline, figures released today by the University of Otago’s AIDS Epidemiology Group show. In 2021, of the 112 people notified with HIV, 67 were first diagnosed in New Zealand, 43 of whom were reported to have acquired HIV locally. The number of people diagnosed in New Zealand […]

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One in 150 Australians have retinal scars caused by the Toxoplasma parasite, according to new Flinders University analysis. With the condition putting people at risk of further attacks of toxoplasmosis that can progressively damage the retina and lead to vision loss, experts are calling for increased awareness of the risks of eating raw and undercooked meat. Closely associated with cats, […]

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, many businesses stopped accepting cash payments in an effort to reduce the spread of the virus. While neither the CDC nor WHO ever banned the use of paper money, many businesses still only accept payment by card more than two years later. Turns out that this decision, though well-intentioned, was misguided. A new study published […]