Breast cancer: Are you finding it hard to sleep? A biomedical scientist provides a remedy

We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. Dr Bruinvel founded OWise, a personalised breast cancer support app. Collating valuable insights about your day-today wellbeing, it can be used as a tool to make informed decision about on-going treatment. According […]

U.S. Nephrology Trainees Doubt Skill in Home Hemodialysis

FRIDAY, Nov. 20, 2020 — U.S. nephrology trainees report moderate and low confidence for peritoneal dialysis (PD) and home hemodialysis (HHD), respectively, according to a study published online Nov. 16 in the American Journal of Kidney Diseases. Nupur Gupta, M.D., from the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis, and colleagues conducted a cross-sectional study […]

Losing your hair because of pandemic stress?

(HealthDay)—Add stress-related hair loss to the many problems caused by the coronavirus pandemic. “I’ve had patients coming in recently with stress-related hair loss, who tell me they were so worried about dying earlier this year or even that they had COVID-19. But they don’t see the effects until three months later,” said dermatologist Dr. Ohara […]

'Real Housewives' Babies! See Which Bravo Stars Gave Birth

Welcome to the world! When it comes to adding more babies to their broods, these Real Housewives have been busy. Meghan King Edmonds, who appeared on Real Housewives of Orange County for three seasons, has three children ages two and under. The former reality star gave birth to her daughter, Aspen, in 2016 — and […]

Coronavirus: Covid-19 reinfection unlikely for at least 6 months, study finds

People who’ve had Covid-19 are highly unlikely to contract it again for at least six months after their first infection, according to a British study of healthcare workers on the frontline of fight against the coronavirus pandemic. The findings should offer some reassurance for the more than 51 million people worldwide who have been infected […]

What we can expect from two experimental vaccines

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health’s Barry Bloom, Joan L. and Julius H. Jacobson Research Professor of Public Health, offers context about the news that two experimental vaccines appear to confer a high level of protection from the coronavirus. Q&A: Barry Bloom CHAN SCHOOL: Within the space of a week, we’ve heard about not […]

Breast cancer discovery could help stop disease’s deadly spread

University of Virginia Cancer Center researchers have identified a gene responsible for the spread of triple-negative breast cancer to other parts of the body—a process called metastasis—and developed a potential way to stop it. Triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) is an aggressive form of breast cancer that accounts for 40,000 deaths in the United States […]

Closing the gap for vision: Good progress made but still a way to go

University of Melbourne public health leader and ophthalmologist, Professor Hugh Taylor said 2020 has presented additional challenges with COVID-19 leading to reduced access to eye screening, examination and surgery, all resulting in greater backlogs and patient waitlists. On the plus side, COVID-19 has led to a shift in the provision of soap, washing facilities and […]