A landmark discovery linking iron regulation to a rare blood cancer has led to clinical trials of a potential new treatment for patients with the incurable disease. The study focused on polycythemia vera (PV), a blood disorder causing excessive red blood cells, and found that restricting iron access to the bone marrow could reduce the […]

Student Alex Wood started struggling with poor mental health from the age of 16 due to his hair loss and receding hairline. He was constantly made fun of by his peers, but has said he feels he can ‘do anything’ now after having a hair transplant. Alex, now 21, lives in London and studies business […]

Crohn’s disease is a lifelong inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) that is characterized by swelling in the lining of the digestive tract, causing severe diarrhea, abdominal pain, and rectal bleeding. For pediatric patients, the disease is harder to treat. If untreated, it can impair growth, psychosocial development, and puberty. A significant clinical trial under the direction […]

Patients diagnosed with post-COVID-19 syndrome often experience cognitive and memory impairments. A new study by researchers from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and UniRio provides insight into the mechanism behind this phenomenon. The study suggests that the Spike protein, responsible for the virus's entry into human cells, could be responsible for memory […]

The COVID-19 pandemic created a real-life experiment that demanded health care providers nationwide rapidly stand up clinics to administer an evolving offering of monoclonal antibody treatments that—while initially proven safe and effective in clinical trials and approved under federal emergency use authorization—had never been tested at such a scale. The task was massive and the […]

Medicaid reimbursement for the same mental health treatment varies dramatically among U.S. states, according to a new study by researchers at Oregon Health & Science University. The study published today in the April edition of the journal Health Affairs. Medicaid is the largest single payer for mental health services in the country, yet previous research […]

Whoever said parents shouldn’t be friends with their kids must have never actually hung out with their child. Because if they did, they would know how ridiculous that advice is. Of course we are going to be buddies with our kids — they are just so much fun! Especially if your mini-me shares a common […]

Excess weight is associated with more somatic complaints for oldest old men, according to a study published online March 29 in PLOS ONE. Franziska U.C.E. Jung, from the Institute of Social Medicine, Occupational Health, and Public Health at Leipzig University in Germany, and colleagues examined data from the second follow-up of a long-term study examining […]

New knowledge of the genetic factors behind premature delivery and gestational duration has now emerged. Findings presented by a major international study under the aegis of the University of Gothenburg include the ways in which, before birth, the woman’s and the unborn child’s genes have mutually antagonistic effects. These results, now published in the journal […]

Antibody–drug conjugates (ADCs) are relatively new in the gynecologic cancer space, and while they show promise, the novel ocular adverse events associated with this drug class mean that clinicians need to learn how to monitor and manage these patients. This was the message from Colleen Bohnenkamp, PharmD, an oncology clinical pharmacist at the University of […]