When I was 15, my 21-year-old-brother died of a cancer no one had seen before. His compassionate physician helped us navigate teams of oncologists and wade through his very short journey—three weeks from hospital to grave. My world was shattered. He was my hero. I dove into the one area that could help me navigate… Read More »
Stephane Cardinale – CorbisGetty Images • Pop star Lily Allen recently announced she’s making sex toys.• “Orgasms are important, ladies,” she told the crowd at England’s Port Eliot Festival.• Allen is following the lead of her fellow British pop star Mel B, who recently announced her own line of women’s sex toys. Lily Allen wants… Read More »
Flawed racial narratives make people sick. Literally sick. Direct examples of this come from medical settings, where it’s been documented again and again that medical staff treat people of different races differently, especially when it comes to cardiac care. These differences are largely reflections of broader inequality, but not exclusively, because these differences remain even… Read More »
WEDNESDAY, June 26, 2019 — HPV vaccination programs significantly reduce human papillomavirus infections and precancerous cervical lesions, a new global review finds. Vaccination protects against the HPV strains that cause the majority of cervical cancers. Researchers analyzed 65 studies that included data collected over eight years from more than 60 million people in 14 high-income… Read More »
According to the Center for Disease Control, Zostavax is a medication that was licensed in 2006 to treat shingles. It is administered through a shot and only one dose is given to protect individuals from acquiring shingles. While the product is marketed as a safeguard against the shingles virus, the vaccine has caused adverse effects… Read More »
Medications known as PARP inhibitors have emerged as a promising therapy for several forms of cancer fueled by a defect in the cells’ DNA repair machinery. Yet many people with cancers caused by the defect, known as HR deficiency, who stand to benefit from PARP inhibitors remain unidentified because standard genetic panels used in the… Read More »