Health and Fitness

Yes, this also means disclosing oral herpes. Sometimes, “people don’t care as much about oral infections because…stigma de-emphasizes one and sensationalizes the other,” Jenelle Pierce, an AASECT-certified sexuality educator and the executive director of the STI Project, tells SELF. But it’s important to disclose whether you get cold sores early on in a sexual relationship, …

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A new health technology project in Hong Kong has received significant public funding to introduce an AI-based data-driven approach to mental health diagnosis and treatment.  The Hong Kong Polytechnic University-led project obtained over HK$37 million ($4.7 million) in funding from the Strategic Topics Grant of Hong Kong’s Research Grants Council. WHAT IT’S ABOUT Based on …

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Netflix’s science fiction movie They Cloned Tyrone is officially out, and the cast are all busy doing press for the retro conspiracy comedy—with one notable exception. Jamie Foxx is absent from the press tour, having taken a step away from the public eye since he was hospitalized earlier this year. However, his co-stars have been …

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Minx is officially back for a second season of gender politics, ’70s fashion, and smut. The unconventional workplace comedy stars British actress Ophelia Lovibond as Joyce Prigger, a feminist activist who struggles to find a platform in the chauvinist Los Angeles of the ’70s. That is, until she joins forces with Doug Renetti, a pornography …

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One type of bariatric surgery was linked with a higher risk for substance use disorder (SUD), according to results from the prospective, controlled Swedish Obese Subjects study. Over a median follow-up of 23.8 years, patients who underwent gastric bypass surgery had more than a 2.5-fold higher risk for developing non-alcohol SUD compared with non-surgical controls …

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An amino-acid based diet may help provide relief for patients with eosinophilic gastritis or gastroenteritis (EoG/EoGE), a small prospective study found. All 15 participants experienced a complete histologic remission in both the stomach (from 50 to 11 eosinophils per high-power microscopic field of gastric or duodenal biopsy sample [eos/hpf], PP= Read More

New American guidelines for chronic coronary disease (CCD) modify management considerations for a heterogeneous group that includes people with or without angina, a history of coronary revascularization, and previous acute coronary syndrome. For one, the American Heart Association (AHA) and American College of Cardiology (ACC) say that outpatients with CCD should no longer initiate beta-blockers …

American Guidelines Sour on Beta-Blockers for Chronic Coronary Disease Read More »

The average cost of wastage associated with dose reductions or discontinuations of oral cancer drugs was found to be considerable, according to an economic evaluation of 22 medications. Looking at the best-selling oral anticancer drugs in 2021 and FDA-approved oral anticancer drugs prescribed between January 2020 and August 2022, the median cost of wastage from …

Cost of Wasted Cancer Drugs May Exceed $4,000 Per Patient Read More »

A second booster with an mRNA bivalent vaccine offered the best protection against severe COVID-19 due to the Omicron BA.5 variant in older adults, and protection appeared to wane less than with the monovalent shot, a large retrospective study out of Italy showed. Among over 2 million people ages 60 and up, the relative vaccine …

Bivalent COVID Shots May Hold Up Better Against Severe Omicron Read More »

The following story contains spoilers for Secret Invasion Episode 5, “Harvest.” SAY WHAT you will about the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but one of the most fun things that the ever-expansive superhero franchise has established is the fact that any character, big or small, can come back at any point. When Sir Ben Kingsley was revealed …

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