A UK mum says she was able to detect her three-month-old son’s rare cancer using the flash on her phone camera. Sarah Hedges, 40, from Gillingham in Kent, was cooking dinner in November 2022 when she looked across at her son Thomas and noticed a “white glow” in his eye. She said it was reflecting … Read more
Victoria Hill never quite understood how she could be so different from her father — in looks and in temperament. The 39-year-old licensed clinical social worker from the US state of Connecticut used to joke that perhaps she was the mailman’s child. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Victoria Hill took a DNA test. The results were … Read more
An effective chronic migraine and headache medication is facing a shortage in Australia, just months after it was listed under the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS). AJOVY — a prescription medication used for the treatment of migraines, has been available in Australia since September 2019. Since then, it has said to have dramatically helped about 400,000 … Read more
Kellin Behrendorff, 33, was taking mood stabilising medication for two years before she says a refill for her script was refused. The Brunswick woman said her concerns about her not being able to taper off her medication was met with a jarring response from her doctor: “that’s not my problem”. What followed Behrendorff’s “cold turkey” … Read more
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In 2015, Lucy Yung was a young industrial designer working on assistive devices for stroke victims, people with multiple sclerosis, and those with other conditions which meant they struggled with fine motor control. Her projects included a pen that used high-frequency vibrations to help Parkinson’s patients write more clearly. Then she was diagnosed with a … Read more
Now some key patents have expired, and the US Food and Drug Administration has paved the way for biosimilar versions of insulin—so-called because they’re almost identical to another product already on the market. For a product to be biosimilar, it must be highly similar in structure to the original and work just as well in … Read more
To keep IL-12 inside tumors, scientists at Strand designed a set of instructions called a genetic circuit that tells the mRNA to make the inflammatory protein only when it detects the tumor microenvironment. The circuit is designed to sense levels of microRNA—molecules that naturally regulate gene expression and give off different signatures in cancer cells … Read more
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Until last November, I had never heard of Perry Johnson and Associates. But they had heard of me. In fact, without my knowledge, they had information about me that even my closest friends and relatives might not know. Because the company provides “transcription and dictation” services to Northwell Health, a medical provider that has treated … Read more
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Metabolic details matter to predict health in the modern world, Ocobock says. The same genetic programming that arose to protect someone in the Arctic—like high BMI and faster metabolism—could become liabilities. Many of Ocobock’s study subjects have been overweight and obese with normal cholesterol and blood sugar. Being “fat but fit,” which has been beneficial … Read more
