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His father, struggling with addiction and imprisonment, was not present during much of Suggs’s childhood, and he missed out on many conversations a young boy would have with his father. But he found support in his community, at his church, and local barbershop. Here, men gathered and spoke honestly in a safe space, where they learned, encouraged, and mentored each other. After graduating college and getting a job at a Fortune 100 firm, Suggs learned his father had a heart attack and was living with congestive heart failure....

For the study, researchers examined data on more than 778,000 women ages 50 to 69 who had at least one mammogram at a breast cancer screening center in Spain between 1996 and 2015. During a median follow-up period of 7.6 years, mammograms found noncancerous tissue growth, or benign breast disease, in 2.3 percent of the participants and breast cancer in 1.5 percent. Overall, about 25 out of every 1,000 women with benign breast disease went on to develop breast cancer, compared with 15 out of every 1,000 women without these noncancerous tissue growths, researchers reported February 24, 2022, in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health....

A balanced diet rich in fruits and vegetables keeps your immune system healthy and better able to fend off lung infections, says David Mannino, MD, the medical director of the COPD Foundation and a pulmonologist at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine in Lexington. Foods rich in antioxidants and healthy fats can also tamp down inflammation in the lungs and protect lung cells from further damage, he adds. But what if you can’t always eat the way you should?...

According to the CDC’s May 18 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), there were 493 outbreaks associated with treated recreational water in the United States between the years 2000 and 2014. Those outbreaks resulted in at least 27,219 cases of illness and eight deaths. Nearly one-third (32 percent) of the disease outbreaks were associated with hotel pools, hot tubs, and spas. Most of the outbreaks occurred during summer months, when people are more likely to hit the water....

Food is my passion, my joy, and my vice. I used to be able to eat whatever I wanted, but after the birth of my second child, I couldn’t lose the baby weight, and I’ve gained a little more every year. Recently, my doctor told me that I’m pre-diabetic and for the sake of my health, I needed to get serious about weight loss once and for all. I knew I needed to finally tackle the 40-plus pounds of extra weight, but between work, managing my kids’ activities, and cooking for the whole family, I just didn’t have the energy to figure out a whole separate menu, let alone count calories....

All kinds of things can lead to an imbalance in our gut microbiomes, from overexposure to antibiotics in childhood to a diet insufficient in fiber, according to Kelly Kennedy, RDN, staff nutritionist with Everyday Health. Probiotic supplements, then, are intended to restore balance to that system. If you live with Crohn’s disease, an inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) with GI symptoms including diarrhea, cramping, and rectal bleeding, it can definitely feel like your system is out of whack....

Low sun exposure, low ultraviolet radiation (UVR) exposure, and low vitamin D levels already have been well-established as environmental risk factors for adult-onset MS. Signs of the disease typically appear when a person is between age 20 and 50. But 3 to 5 percent of some one million MS patients in the United States began experiencing symptoms before age 16, according to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. For children with the disease, symptoms are highly inflammatory, with more frequent relapses than adults experience....

Zejula Can Extend Life for Some Patients With Ovarian Cancer What’s New Zejula (niraparib) can help women newly diagnosed with ovarian cancer who respond to platinum-based chemotherapy, according to a study published November 25th, 2019, in the New England Journal of Medicine. In the phase III trial, researchers randomly assigned 733 women newly diagnosed with ovarian cancer who’d already had a positive response to platinum-based chemotherapy to receive either Zejula or a placebo....

New Screening Test Can Detect New and Recurrent Bladder Cancer What’s New A novel screening test that identifies a cancer biomarker (keratin 17 [K17]) in urine can detect new bladder cancers in patients with blood in their urine, according to research published in the June 7 online issue of the American Journal of Clinical Pathology. The test can also identify bladder cancer in patients under surveillance for recurrence. Research Details Researchers from Yale Cancer Center in New Haven, Connecticut, and Stony Brook University in New York assessed 179 urine samples taken from adults with blood in their urine or who were being followed for recurrence to determine sensitivity (the ability to detect cancer) and the specificity (the ability to differentiate cancers from non-cancers)....

COVID-19 Boosters Provide Antibodies in More Than Half of Cancer Patients Studied What’s New Data shows that more than 50 percent of cancer patients produced ample antibody protection after receiving a COVID-19 booster shot, including those who were on active cancer treatment at the time of vaccination. The study findings were published in the November 5 online issue of Cancer Cell journal. Research Details In the study, 88 cancer patients were offered a COVID-19 booster shot (Pfizer or Moderna)....

The person, who died at the end of July, was the second fatality out of four total cases of melioidosis (also called Burkholderia pseudomallei infection) to have been identified in United States this year. The first case, which proved to be fatal, was found in Kansas in March. The two other patients were hospitalized in May in Minnesota and Texas for extended periods of time before being discharged to transitional care facilities....

That includes healthcare professionals who are in the traditional medical setting, such as physicians specially trained in headaches, as well as those in the complementary-alternative medicine field, such as acupuncturists. According to the American Migraine Foundation, as many as 80 percent of people who experience migraines have tried some sort of alternative treatment to find relief. “Our patients oftentimes work with a team of healthcare professionals to help relieve some of their migraine symptoms,” says Timothy Collins, MD, a headache specialist in the department of neurology at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina....

However, given that about 268,000 men in the United States will be diagnosed with the disease in 2022, according to the American Cancer Society (ACS), it’s likely that you or someone you know will be affected. Prostate cancer is the second leading cause of death from cancer in American men, right behind lung cancer. But while it’s a serious disease, and it does take lives, most men don’t die from it....

It’s estimated that 1.5 million people died of TB in 2020, including 214,000 HIV-positive people; in 2019, an estimated 1.4 million people died, according to the Global Tuberculosis Report, released October 14. Experts fear that the pandemic-related challenges of diagnosing and treating the disease are causing many cases of TB to go undetected and undiagnosed; the number of newly diagnosed cases and government-reported cases fell from 7.1 million in 2019 to 5....

“The virus has been linked to problems ranging from fatigue, depression, and anxiety to cognitive impairment,” says Rita Garcia-Martinez, MD, PhD, a researcher who has studied hepatitis C at the department of internal medicine at the Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón in Madrid. She adds that many other people with hepatitis C may experience problems with concentration, attention, verbal learning, and working memory. The good news is, the same medication that can cure hepatitis C can also improve brain functioning among people with the infection....

We sat down with Smith to discuss his current work and to learn more about his perspective on wellness. What are you working on now? I’m working on a book entitled Making Monsters: The Uncanny Power of Dehumanization, which will be published by Harvard University Press, and another book on dehumanization that will be published by Oxford University Press. Both should be out in 2020. Dr. Smith on Stress What stresses you out?...

In August 2021, I learned that things happen that are out of my control. I’m not as invincible as I thought. First, a Crashing Sound in My Head It was the middle of January in 2018 when I woke up at about 4 a.m. to what sounded like a train wreck. We live near a train track, so I got out of bed and looked out the window. I didn’t see anything, so I thought it was a dream — until a few days later, when it happened again while I was awake....

Now you know why certain music might stress you, why loud-talkers might upset you, and why traffic noise might make you feel a little on edge. Scientists at the Karolinska Institute and Stockholm University’s Stress Research Institute in Sweden looked at how sensitive women were to sounds immediately after a few minutes of artificially induced stress. The study builds on past research showing a link between stress, emotional exhaustion, and hearing problems such as tinnitus, a constant ringing in the ears....

Enterovirus infections often have no symptoms, especially in adults. In people who do have symptoms, they are usually mild, resembling the common cold. Some people experience an illness more like the flu. Symptoms of an enterovirus infection may include: Runny nose, sneezing, coughSore throatBody and muscle achesVomitingFeverConjunctivitis (also known as pink eye or Madras eye)Non-itchy rash on the skinSores on the mucous membranes, such as blisters inside the mouth...