President Biden announces that Dr. Monica Bertagnolli will be the next director of the National Institutes of Health (N.I.H.). Bertagnolli has previously headed the National Cancer Institute and is herself battling early stage breast cancer. She will be just the second woman to hold this position.…
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A team of researchers from MIT’s Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital has developed an effective way to deliver insulin by swallowing a pill. The insulin is still injected with a needle, but it is so small it can be swallowed, and the injection…
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As reported by Donald G. McNeil Jr. in the New York Times, the World Health Organization (WHO) recently published a list of essential diagnostics. This necessary diagnostic list consists of many common lab tests frequently ordered by physicians including red and white blood cell counts, liver…
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A basketball hoop stands at the edge of a trailer home's yard in Hidalgo County, Texas, in January.
Around half a million Texans live in colonias – largely impoverished neighborhoods that fall
outside of city limits and can lack basic public services.
Image Credit: (MELANIE STETSON…
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Image Above: An officer standing guard near the Lactalis factory in Craon, France, last month
while investigators were on the premises. Credit: Damien Meyer/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
As reported by Liz Alderman in The New York Times:
The French dairy brand "Lactalis" recalled 7,000…
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Above image: A colored electron micrograph showing colon tissue with cancer in yellow, blood cells in red,
mucus in blue and bacteria in light green. A study links colon cancer with two types of bacteria,
which may fuel the growth of tumors. Credit: Eye of Science/Science Source
As reported by…
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According to an ABC news clip, this flu season could be a particularly bad one. Doctors have been looking at flu cases in the southern hemisphere as a way to predict what is ahead for the US. In Australia there have been about 215,000 cases compared to 59,000 in 2009, making the current vaccine…
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