A team of researchers, including LSU Health New Orleans Infectious Diseases and Microbiology professor Michael Hagensee, MD, PhD, has shown for the first time that treating precancerous anal growths called high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions (HSILs) in persons living with HIV significantly decreased the progression to anal cancer. Results are published in the New England Journal […]
Howie Mandel pokes fun at Simon Cowell's back injury We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info Recently, Howie’s behaviour has prompted concerns […]
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, SheKnows may receive an affiliate commission. Since welcoming her baby boy with Travis Scott in February 2022, Kylie Jenner has mostly kept pictures and videos of him under wraps. But the 5-month-old baby, who was originally named Wolf, makes a […]
We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. You can unsubscribe at any time. More info The new research, published in the health bible The Lancet, found that while heavy drinking […]
Data collected by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and the Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy suggest that Clostridioides difficile, or C. diff, a bacterial species well known for causing serious diarrheal infections, may also drive colorectal cancer. The findings were published June 9 in Cancer Discovery, and may expose another troublesome role […]
Balancing a career while taking care of children is difficult for anyone — including celebrities. By day, Christina Ricci is an actor, by night, she’s staying up with a teething baby. The Yellowjackets star is a mom of two, who shares Freddie, 7, with ex-husband James Heerdegen, and Cleopatra “Cleo,” 7 months, with husband Mark […]
Dying of a broken heart was just a figure of speech until 2002 when Dr. Hikaru Sato and colleagues at Hiroshima City Hospital described it in a study. Sato named the condition takotsubo cardiomyopathy. It was quickly dubbed “broken heart syndrome”. More recently, scientists have discovered that you can also die of an excess of […]
The number of outbreaks of diseases that jumped from animals to humans in Africa has surged by more than 60% in the last decade, the World Health Organization said, a worrying sign the planet could face increased animal-borne diseases like monkeypox, Ebola and coronavirus in the future. There has been a 63% rise in the […]
Despite women with stroke being more likely than men to arrive at the hospital by ambulance, their care is less likely to follow a smooth pathway of care along the way, according to new research published in the Medical Journal of Australia. There was also an age effect, with ambulance staff more likely to miss […]
Many people have type 2 diabetes without even realising. This is because symptoms can be hidden and don't necessarily make you feel unwell. If left untreated, diabetes can cause narrowing of blood vessels, heart disease, stroke, and eye and kidney diseases. You can manage this disease by making lifestyle changes, taking medications and/or insulin and […]
