Category Health & Wellness

(MedPage Today) — Two neoadjuvant immunotherapy combinations for head and neck cancer substantially increased the response rate versus a single drug, a small randomized trial showed. The pathologic tumor response (pTR) rate increased from 41… Source link

Attendee Judy Gao, 20, said she met Saito in the dorms of NYU. Gao moved from Singapore to New York in 2021 and quickly experienced isolation in the new school, new city, and new country. She said handling her fears…

Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez As Congress mulls potentially massive cuts to federal Medicaid funding, health centers that serve Native American communities, such as the Oneida Community Health Center near Green Bay, Wisconsin, are bracing for catastrophe. That’s because more than 40%…

Abortion rights advocates are closely following what they call a growing and alarming trend: lawmakers in several states have introduced bills that would allow authorities to charge people who obtain abortions with homicide. Such bills have been introduced in at…

Meltwater runs off the Bråsvellbreen Glacier in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard Sebnem Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images Unprecedented levels of ocean heat, ice melt and sea level rise are among the many key measures of climate change setting alarming records…

For me, the best part of Vivrelle isn’t so much flexing a new designer bag every single month—I tend to hold on to my selections a little longer—it’s more about getting to have some fun with luxury in a way…

Smoking rates in parts of England have increased for the first time in nearly two decades, according to research. Academics at University College London examined smoking data for more than 350,000 adults in England over an 18-year period. They found…

Purdue Pharma asked a bankruptcy judge late Tuesday to consider the latest version of its plan to settle thousands of lawsuits over the toll of the powerful prescription painkiller OxyContin, a deal that would have members of the Sackler family…

Arguments about benefits always revolve around a single concept: fairness. There are timeless questions – who is deserving and who is not? It provokes sharp opinions and so is among the sharpest of domestic political decisions a government ever has…

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s top health official, has an unorthodox idea for tackling the bird flu bedeviling U.S. poultry farms. Let the virus rip. Instead of culling birds when the infection is discovered, farmers “should consider maybe the…