In the late 1990s, Ginger Moore was at a health crossroads. Like many others in their early 40s, she’d packed on some extra pounds around the middle. She’s the first to admit that she ate “for all the wrong reasons.” The biggest one: “to comfort myself emotionally after a bad day.” But her experience with …
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy is a new way to treat cancer. It’s a living drug made from T cells, white cells that are an important part of your immune system. After specialists change the T cells in a lab, the cells are put back into your body to find and kill cancer cells. …
Stem cell transplants have become important weapons in the fight against certain blood cancers, such as multiple myeloma, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, Hodgkin lymphoma, and leukemia. A stem cell transplant may help you live longer. In some cases, it can even cure blood cancers. About 50,000 transplantations are performed yearly, with the number increasing 10% to 20% …
DR. DRE IS opening up about his health. During a recent conversation on the SiriusXM show This Life of Mine With James Corden, the rapper reflected on the life-threatening brain aneurysm he had in 2021, and revealed that he had three subsequent strokes following his hospitalization. Recalling how it began, Dre explained that he woke …
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YOU MAY THINK you know all there is to know about the 1865 assassination of President Abraham Lincoln; John Wilkes Booth, an actor, shot the 16th POTUS in the head, shouted ‘Sic Semper Tyranus,’ and then Lincoln’s VP, Andrew Johnson, took over. If Apple TV+’s Manhunt, based on the bestselling nonfiction book of the same …
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March 15, 2024 – Summer is fast approaching, and the pressures of “bikini season” have some young adults looking to GLP-1 medications like Ozempic to shed weight. And while data shows that obesity is skyrocketing among U.S. teens and young adults, Ozempic and other GLP-1 medications are very rarely the first or best option to lose …
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By R. Balfour Sartor, MD., as told to Stacia Friedman My Crohn’s disease symptoms started in sixth grade when my abdominal pain was misdiagnosed as appendicitis. Inflammatory bowel diseases, which include Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, are frequently misdiagnosed. Patients often mistake IBD symptoms — diarrhea, abdominal pain, weight loss — for a GI bug. …
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Obesity is the most common chronic disease in childhood. One in five children in the U. S. is overweight or obese. And that number continues to rise. Children with obesity have several weight-related health and mental wellness issues. It is a chronic, progressive disease and places them at a higher risk of having obesity as …
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