MARK LEWIS: Hello, my name is Dr. Mark Lewis. I’m a gastrointestinal oncologist. I’m the type of doctor that you never want to meet because if you’re in my office that means that you have cancer and in my office specifically it means you have cancer of the gut. Why is this relevant? It’s relevant …
By Cara Murez HealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, June 6, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Here’s some good news for women with the most common type of breast cancer: Adding a targeted breast cancer drug to hormonal therapy reduced the risk of cancer returning by 25% for women with early-stage disease, a new clinical trial shows. Hormone-receptor (HR) …
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A man from the Czech Republic has performed the longest abdominal plank ever recorded, as confirmed by the Guinness Book of World Records. Josef Šálek, known to his friends as Joska, undertook the physically grueling challenge on May 20, 2023, maintaining a strict plank position for 9 hours, 38 minutes, and 47 seconds. The world …
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Hey, Men’s Health MVP. We see you putting hours of hard work in at the gym—but if you think that your fitness routine is something that should be restricted to just one place, you need to expand your horizons. You can do that by making anywhere and everywhere your personal workout spot. Whether you’re getting …
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Chris Hemsworth has played Thor, God of Thunder, in the Marvel Cinematic Universe for more than ten years across eight movies, both as a leading man in solo adventures and as part of an ensemble cast in the Avengers films. So it stands to reason that as the MCU heads into its fifth phase of …
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Credit: Advanced Materials (2023). DOI: 10.1002/adma.202210579 Therapeutic nanocarriers engineered from adult skin cells can curb inflammation and tissue injury in damaged mouse lungs, new research shows, hinting at the promise of a treatment for lungs severely injured by infection or trauma. Researchers conducted experiments in cell cultures and mice to demonstrate the therapeutic potential of …
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Customize hydrogel masks. Credit: University of Waterloo One of the challenges in treating burn victims is the frequency of dressing changes, which can be extremely painful. To bring relief to this and other problems, University of Waterloo researchers have created a new type of wound dressing material using advanced polymers. This new dressing could enhance …
HeartBEiT is much more precise at highlighting areas of interest, in this case for diagnosing heart attacks (myocardial infarction). Credit: Augmented Intelligence in Medicine and Science Laboratory at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Mount Sinai researchers have developed an innovative artificial intelligence (AI) model for electrocardiogram (ECG) analysis that allows for the …
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Scientists from the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have developed a new method to bioprint miniature tumor organoids that are designed to mimic the function and architecture of real tumors. The improved process allows researchers to use an advanced imaging method to study and analyze individual organoids in great detail, which …
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Patients with heart disease could benefit from less extensive interventions thanks to cutting-edge technology that creates 3D computer models of blood flow through the heart’s arteries, according to research presented at the British Cardiovascular Society in Manchester. When the research team trialed the VIRTUHeart technology with doctors treating heart attack patients, …
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