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Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Coronaviruses | Global Health Now Updates COVID-19 Dashboard at Johns Hopkins University by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) Coronavirus Resource Center Coronavirus (COVID-19) | CDC
Global Digest has a section on Health|Epidemics|Humanitarian Aid as well as one on USA Veterans.
Also, Health is intimately connected to the Environment and Food & Agriculture as well as Energy issues.
For example, the process of 'Fracking' or Hydraulic Fracturing can contaminate soil and ground water with toxic chemicals which can work their way into streams, rivers, and aquifers and eventually find their way into the food we eat.
Fracking also pollutes the air with carcinogens, like benzene, when the chemicals evaporate from storage ponds, and along with air pollution from refineries and vehicles, contributes to the creation of an ozone layer at ground level.
Below is a list of links to information on Fracking that most directly concerns its harmful health risks. |
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The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2024 | Prize Announcement
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Is Awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun Nobel Prize in medicine goes to two American biologists for work on the discovery of microRNA | CNN
“This finding was groundbreaking, and has affected more or less all fields of biology and medicine,”
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2023
Nobel Prize Awarded to Covid Vaccine Pioneers | The New York Times
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2022
Nobel Prize Awarded to Scientist Who Sequenced Neanderthal Genome
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine “This discovery has profoundly changed our view of how we sense the world around us.”
The medicine Nobel Prize honors the discovery of temperature and touch receptors
Nobel Prize Awarded for Research About Temperature and Touch
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Nobel Prize in Medicine Awarded to Scientists Who Discovered Hepatitis C Virus
3 Win Nobel Medicine Prize for Discovering Hepatitis C Virus Nobel Prize for Medicine goes to Hepatitis C discovery| October 5, 2020 - BBC
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Press Release | Press Release PDF File
Announcement of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2019 | Video - 34 minutes - YouTube
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Press Release | Press Release PDF File
2018 Nobel Prize in Medicine Awarded to 2 Cancer Immunotherapy Researchers
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Press Release | Press Release PDF File
Nobel Prize In Medicine Is Awarded To 3 Americans For Work On Circadian Rhythm
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2016 Press Release | Press Release PDF File
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2015
William C Campbell, Satoshi Omura and Youyou Tu win Nobel prize in medicine
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2014 Press Release | Press Release Image - PDF File
Nobel Prize in Medicine is Awarded for Discovery of Brain’s ‘Inner GPS’
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2013
For 3 Nobel Winners, A Molecular Mystery Solved
"Three Americans [James Rothman and Randy Schekman and German-born researcher Thomas Suedhof] won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Monday for discovering the machinery that regulates how cells transport major molecules [hormones, enzymes and other key substances] in a cargo system that delivers them to the right place at the right time in cells." |
We Are What We Eat: Potential Health Hazards
"Monsanto’s long arm stretched so far that, in the early nineties, the US Food and Drugs Agency even ignored warnings of their own scientists, who were cautioning that GE crops could cause negative health effects. Other tactics the company uses to stifle concerns about their products include misleading advertising, bribery and concealing scientific evidence."
"It is estimated that now upwards of 75 percent of processed foods on supermarket shelves – from soda to soup, crackers to condiments – contain ingredients that are derived from corn, soy and canola crops that have been genetically engineered. "The Environmental Protection Agency is on the verge of granting Dow Agrosciences permission to sell Enlist, a potent new pesticide for use on genetically engineered crops – and a final decision could come as early as tomorrow (October 14, 2014).
"Enlist is made up of glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s RoundUp, and 2,4-D, one of the main ingredients in the Vietnam-era defoliant Agent Orange. Dow plans to sell it in combination with corn and soy that has been genetically engineered to withstand this toxic cocktail.
"The documents reveal that Monsanto pressured Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials not to publicly release information on the cancer risks of glyphosate, the main ingredient in Roundup, ghostwrote research for the EPA and worked with a senior official at the agency to quash a federal review of the chemical."
"Dow developed this new pesticide/ GMO combo to combat pesticide-resistant superweeds, which were themselves the result of the over-application of glyphosate on genetically modified crops."
"Food is information. What does that mean? Well we look at our food in terms of the macronutrients of fat, protein, and carbohydrates and the micronutrients like minerals and vitamins. But understand that the very foods that you choose to eat are changing the expression of your DNA."
"When a food company claims a food is "natural" it doesn't mean much of anything. Unlike the "organic" label, which is regulated and verified by the United States Department of Agriculture, there are no restrictions on how the animals were raised or what can go into foods labeled natural."
Director Robert Kenner explores the subject from all angles, talking to authors, advocates, farmers, and CEOs, like co-producer Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation), Michael Pollan (The Omnivore’s Dilemma), Gary Hirschberg (Stonyfield Farms), and Barbara Kowalcyk, who’s been lobbying for more rigorous standards since E. coli claimed the life of her two-year-old son.
Part 2: The filmmaker takes his camera into slaughterhouses and factory farms where chickens grow too fast to walk properly, cows eat feed pumped with toxic chemicals, and illegal immigrants risk life and limb to bring these products to market at an affordable cost. If eco-docs tends to preach to the converted, Kenner presents his findings in such an engaging fashion that "Food, Inc." may well reach the very viewers who could benefit from it the most: harried workers who don’t have the time or income to read every book and eat non-genetically modified produce every day.
The free full online version is difficult to find--I looked hard, believe me--so this might be your best bet. It's inexpensive and worthwhile and safe. However, if you're a DIRECTV customer, you can find it at: "Food, Inc.".
We live an an ocean of electromagnetic radiation. It's all around us now, invisible, but we know it's there. Every time you lift up your mobile phone you know it's there. It is very hard to turn the clock back, in fact it is impossible, but we need to be aware of the adverse health effects so that we can have the choice of taking precautions against the exposures.
ICNIRP's principal aim is to disseminate information and advice on the potential health hazards of exposure to non-ionizing radiation to everyone with an interest in the subject. ICNIRP's information and advice covers all of the non-ionizing radiations including, the optical radiations (ultraviolet, visible and infrared - and lasers), static and time-varying electric and magnetic fields and radiofrequency (including microwave) radiation, and ultrasound.
May 31, 2011 - Electromagnetic Health.org
PMC is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).
Scientists from 14 countries met under the auspices of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in Lyon, France, in May 2011, and assessed the carcinogenicity of radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMF).
PDF File available - December, 2012 - PMC - NCBI - NLM - NIH
In the past 30 years the concern that daily exposure to extremely low-frequency magnetic fields (ELF-EMF) (1 to 300 Hz) might be harmful to human health (cancer, neurobehavioral disturbances, etc) has been the object of debate, and has become a public health concern.
Other resources at bottom of page
October, 2011 - PubMed - NCBI - NLM - NIH
BACKGROUND: The rapid increase in mobile telephone use has generated concern about possible health risks of radiofrequency electromagnetic fields from these devices.
By Katharina Gustavs - Environmental and Occupational Health Study Program, University of Victoria - August 2001
"DID YOU KNOW...? Arsenic, a notorious poison, is legally used in poultry feed to promote growth of chickens and turkeys and to make meat appear pinker and fresher. The European Union is the only country (sic) that bans arsenic from poultry feed."
-- Naturopathic Physicians
Why is there so much fuss over genetically modified ingredients? This will help you sift through the facts.
"Thanks to these intimate links between Monsanto and government agencies, the US adopted GE foods and crops without proper testing, without consumer labeling and in spite of serious questions hanging over their safety. Not coincidentally, Monsanto supplies 90 percent of the GE seeds used by the US market.
Every single independent study conducted on the impact of genetically modified food shows that it damages organs, it causes infertility, it causes immune system failure, it causes holes in the GI tract, and it causes multiple organ system failure.
Freedom from liability is, in fact, the real meaning of "free trade".
"Monsanto has created genetically engineered sweet corn that produces pesticides in its own tissue, and it's being grown and sold to consumers throughout the United States. This genetically engineered corn - which would never exist in nature - is regulated by the EPA as an insecticide, but it's sold alongside natural corn in grocery stores across the country."
"Stunning new documents unsealed by a federal judge suggest that Monsanto worked directly with federal regulators to hide the health risks of and manipulate the science behind its best-selling herbicide, Roundup.
--- Oregon Right To Know.org
-- Doctor David Perlmutter
--- ConsumersUnion.org
Part 1: For most Americans, the ideal meal is fast, cheap, and tasty. "Food, Inc." examines the costs of putting value and convenience over nutrition and environmental impact.
"We envision a world in which every person has access to healthy, sustainably grown and humanely raised food; water that is safe, clean, free and in public hands; a stable climate; and a democracy that works to protect the public good, not special interest profits. I'm outraged by the lengths that corporate interests will go to infringe on these rights, but I'm hopeful when I look at what we've built together." - Wenonah Hauter
"Foodopoly," Wenonah Hauter's fine contribution to the growing literature about our ailing food system, does a particularly good job of detailing both the methods and implications of this corporate takeover of food.
"The Center for Biological Diversity filed a legal petition today urging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to protect people, wildlife and the environment from toxic and carcinogenic chemicals found in polyvinyl chloride (PVC), the same material once common in household plumbing. If successful, the petition will require that PVC be classified as hazardous waste, resulting in better regulations for disposal and, ultimately, a reduction in the amount of plastic trash and toxic chemicals additives contaminating communities across the country and polluting oceans worldwide."
There is a separate file on the "Bottled Water Industry - Plastics".
Water Documentaries
"As Richard Denison, an expert at EDF on chemical policy reform, points out, the latest spill brings "the failures of TSCA into sharp focus. TSCA is our main chemical safety law--and it has not been updated since 1976. MCHM was allowed onto the market with no evidence that it is safe.
"Worse, 62,000 chemicals were grandfathered by TSCA in the 70s. We have no information--from industry--about what these chemicals are doing to us. We know next to nothing about their carcinogenic effect, their mutagenic effects, their teratogenic effects, leading to congenital malformations, their developmental toxicity.
"But scientists and researchers are discovering a great deal of disturbing evidence that some of these chemicals--things we breathe as well as ingest every day--are harmful to human health."
'Fracking' - Hydraulic Fracturing
Fracking chemicals are linked to bone, liver and breast cancers, gastrointestinal, circulatory, respiratory, developmental as well as brain and nervous system disorders. Such chemicals are present in frack waste and may find their way into drinking water and air.
House Science Committee wants to investigate scientist for reporting science for the government | January 23, 2018 - Daily Kos
Regulating toxic chemicals for public and environmental health
December 18, 2017 - by Liza Gross & Linda S. Birnbaum | PLOS: Public Library of Science Biology
Trump Expected to Sign Executive Orders Hitting the EPA | February 16, 2017 - Mother Jones
Climate Change information on the Geosciences page
[Government sites seem to be constantly reorganizing; oftentimes, without any redirects. Except for articles under HHS, which can be archived, the following links have all been updated as of February 17, 2017.]
| The Fogarty International Center is dedicated to advancing the mission of the National Institutes of Health by supporting and facilitating global health research conducted by U.S. and international investigators, building partnerships between health research institutions in the U.S. and abroad, and training the next generation of scientists to address global health needs. |
E-Prints, Preprints, Journals, Articles, Archives, and Repositories
-- understanding how science works leaps of inspiration based on the knowledge necessary to perceive the nature of a problem and to figure out how to fix it
| "An evolutionary approach to human anatomy and physiology not only helps us to understand better why humans are the way they are, but also helps provide key insights on how to prevent many kinds of illnesses and injuries." |
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"But Lieberman makes a convincing pitch that other common diseases of modern man are due to mismatches between our genes and our increasingly artificial environments. These include increasing susceptibility to auto-immune diseases, orthopedic problems like back pain and plantar fasciitis, dental problems, and digestive ailments. "Even such mental conditions as anxiety, attention deficit disorder, and obsessive compulsive disorder can be viewed through an evolutionary biology perspective as once-adaptive traits gone haywire in a modern world. "Cancer, too, he writes, 'is actually an aberrant evolutionary process going on within a body.'" |
| Mission: To create comprehensive reference maps of all human cells--the fundamental units of life--as a basis for both understanding human health and diagnosing, monitoring, and treating disease. |
| A comprehensive cell atlas would make it possible to catalog all types and even subtypes of cells in the body, identify where in the body they reside, and even distinguish different stages of differentiation and cell states, such as immune cell activation. An atlas would also allow researchers to map cell lineages, such as tracing a red blood cell all the way back to its stem cell origins in the bone marrow. |
[You need a doctor’s prescription to get antibiotics. But anyone can buy and give antibiotics to cows, chickens and pigs without a prescription or veterinarian approval. This abuse helps breed antibiotic-resistant ‘superbugs’ that kill at least 23,000 Americans each year.]
NEWS
Research and reviews that help you improve your health and well-being.
In answer to my question: What artery is used during an angiogram?
An angiogram is a type of X-ray used to examine blood vessels.
Featuring 318 free textbooks in over 57 subject areas from many of the world's finest scholars and educators.
By Professor Michael J. Farabee, Estrella Mountain Community College, Avondale, Arizona
→ Red meat 'chemical' damages heart | April 8, 2013 - James Gallagher - BBC News/Health
The number of people living with hypertension (high blood pressure) is predicted to be 1.56 billion worldwide by the year 2025.
Author: Gina Shaw
The latest information about heart & vascular disorders, treatments, tests and prevention from the No. 1-ranked heart program in the United States.
Cardiovascular Institute of the South is one of the nation's most respected groups of cardiologists, representing nearly every specialty in heart and vascular medicine.
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| "More research will be necessary to understand in detail the impact of the 3D structure of DNA on the communication between the various elements of the genome, and on the regulation of gene expression. Further down the line, this could also further our understanding of how genomic rearrangements might disrupt these 3D regulatory networks and lead to diseases and malformations." |
Landmark approval of the first CRISPR therapy paves the way for treatments based on more efficient and more precise genome editors
| New Yorker writer Michael Specter discusses emerging biotechnologies that will make it possible to remove disease and change the characteristics of life by rewriting the genetic code in cells. |
| A discovery about the way in which bugs spread throughout the body could help to develop stem cell treatments. Researchers have found that bacteria are able to change the make-up of supporting cells within the nerve system, called Schwann cells, so that they take on the properties of stem cells. |
| Our research is aimed at developing new treatments for major diseases including cancer, heart disease, diabetes, degenerative diseases such as multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's disease, and liver failure. |
| "The editing tool very accurately cut into a mutated gene known as MYBPC3, which causes cardiomyopathy. To the researchers' surprise, the cut triggered the embryos to repair the defective gene on their own. This is a process that had previously been unknown, the scientists say." |
| "Regenerative medicine is a rapidly growing area of science that aims to unlock the body's own ability to rebuild, restore or replace damaged tissue and organs," said Kristi Pottol, director of the Tissue Injury and Regenerative Medicine Program Management Office. |
| Tissue engineering is a branch of regenerative medicine, itself a branch of biomedical engineering. Tissue engineering and regenerative medicine are concerned with the replacement or regeneration of cells, tissues (the focus of tissue engineers) or organs to restore normal biological function. |
| "It turns out that what they [so-called 'junk DNA'] do is regulate how genes are expressed, and they also mediate the response to environmental cues," says Ivashkiv. "And the big surprise is that they are linked to diseases. So that the state-of-the-art understanding is that genetic susceptibility to diseases, including autoimmune diseases, is linked more to these regulatory regions ... rather than to the traditional genes themselves." |
| BMC Medicine is the flagship medical journal of the BMC series, publishing original research, commentaries and reviews that are either of significant interest to all areas of medicine and clinical practice, or provide key translational or clinical advances in a specific field. |
| The Stem Cell Center – Texas Heart Institute is dedicated to the study of adult stem cells and their role in treating diseases of the heart and the circulatory system. The Stem Cell Center is actively recruiting patients for FDA-approved clinical trials using adult stem cells. |
| More than 100 stem cell educational resources and teaching tools, fully catalogued. Ideal for teachers, science centres and museums, scientists doing outreach and others. |
| Seven labs at FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research are working in a consortium to fill in gaps in knowledge about how stem cells function. This research could ultimately be key to the advancement of personalized medicine, in which medical treatment is tailored to the needs of an individual patient. |
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The MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine (CRM) is a research institute based at the University of Edinburgh. Scientists and clinicians study stem cells, disease and tissue repair to advance human health. |
| "Here, we review the current understanding of epigenetic mechanisms involved in regulation of stem cell self-renewal and differentiation and in the control of cardiac progenitor cell commitment during heart development." |
Animals used in traditional Chinese medicine are tigers, leopards, sharks, saiga antelope, elephants,
rhinoceros, pangolins, tortoises, seahorses, musk deer, as well as 7 of the 8 species of bear.
Save Pangolins from the Illegal Wildlife Trade! | Care2 Petitions
Pangolin scales are in high demand in traditional Chinese and Vietnamese medicine.
They are used to treat a variety of conditions from asthma to reproductive problems and cancer
- despite a total lack of evidence regarding their effectiveness.
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Bear paws are treated as a delicacy in most restaurants: The grisly consumption of bear paws, which are cooked as a gourmet delicacy that to some is also health promoting, is widespread in Asia." And... "A Korean newspaper reported that live bears are lowered onto beds of hot coals, where they are held until their feet are cooked (Knights 1996).
"The scientific and folkloric record is strewn with additional examples of plants and animals valued in folk medicine but still unadressed in biomedical research."
From The Diversity of Life by Edward O. Wilson, published 1993
Trump budget seeks huge cuts to science and medical research, disease prevention | May 23, 2017 - The Washington Post
Planned Parenthood would be barred from receiving any HHS funding, according to a fact sheet accompanying the budget release
— a prohibition that would apply not just to Medicaid but to all programs. The fact sheet notes that this move
“follows through on a campaign promise” to block federal dollars from
“certain entities that provide abortions, including Planned Parenthood.”
Congress Just Got a Lot Closer to Defunding Planned Parenthood | February 16, 2017 - Mother Jones
"The bill, HJ Resolution 43, allows states to withhold Title X family planning funds
—about $300 million distributed to states annually—
from providers who also offer abortion care, a group that includes Planned Parenthood affiliates."
All Bill Information (Except Text) for H.J.Res.43 | Congress.gov
TEXT of H.J. Res. 43 | Congress.gov
Facing Congress, Planned Parenthood chief rebuts videos | Yahoo News
Misinformer Of The Year: The Center For Medical Progress |
December 17, 2015 - Media Matters
Guttmacher Institute
The Guttmacher Institute is a leading research and policy organization committed to
advancing sexual and reproductive health and rights in the United States and globally.
An Overview of Abortion Laws
Where State Abortion Laws Stand Without Roe | July 14, 2023 - U.S. News & World Report
Over-the-counter birth control is coming. Here's what to know about cost and coverage | July 19, 2023 - NPR
First 0ver-the-counter birth control pill gets FDA approval | July 13, 2023 by Mathew Perrone - AP
FDA approves Opill, the first daily birth control pill without a prescription | July 13, 2023 - NPR
The move clears the way for Opill (norgestrel), which comes in tablet form,
to be sold over the counter in
a wide range of venues, from online markets to drug stores, convenience stores and grocery stores.
A year since Dobbs, these are the many ways states are protecting abortion | June 23, 2023 - NPR
FDA advisory panels back making Opill birth control pill available over the counter | May 10, 2023 - NBC
Advisers to the agency voted unanimously in favor of making the pill available without a prescription,
despite concerns from FDA scientists about the quality of the data.
Advisers to the FDA back first over-the-counter birth control pill | May 10, 2023 - NPR
FDA Panel Votes Unanimously in Favor of First OTC Birth Control Medication | Pharmacy Times
FDA panel recommends allowing birth control pill to be sold over the counter | May 10, 2023 - USA Today
What To Know About Opill | May 11, 2023 - Forbes
The Birth Control Pill FDA Advisors Support Making Available Over-The-Counter
Opill Tables | PDF File - 11 pages - Accessdata - FDA
OPILL SIDE EFFECTS CENTER | RxList
Alabama Senate passes near-total abortion ban | May 15, 2019 - CNN
Alabama Governor Signs Abortion Ban Into Law | May 14, 2019 - NPR
Lawmakers Vote to Effectively Ban Abortion in Alabama | May 14, 2019 - The New York Times
How to Help Protect Abortion Rights in Alabama and Georgia | May 15, 2019 - by the Editorial Board - The New York Times
‘The Time Is Now’: States Are Rushing to Restrict Abortion, or to Protect It | May 15, 2019 - The New York Times
Judge To Block Trump Administration’s Changes To Family Planning Funding, Calling The Rule ‘Ham-Fisted,’ ‘Arrogant’ | April 24, 2019 - KHN
Oregon Judge Will Block Trump's Title X Abortion Restrictions | April 24, 2019
A New Title X Rule Stripping Sexual Health Access for Millions of Women Could Take Effect Next Week | April 26, 2019 - Pacific Standard Magazine
Trump's 'domestic gag rule' is un-American | Feb. 25, 2019 - CNN
Fact Sheet: Final Title X Rule Detailing Family Planning Grant Program | February 22, 2019 - HHS
On February 22, 2019, the Department of Health and Human Services issued
a final rule to revise the regulations governing the Title X family planning program.
Trump Administration Proposes Sweeping Changes To Federal Family Planning Program | Feb. 22, 2019 - NPR
Under the new rule, posted Friday by the federal Department of Health and Human Services Office of Population Affairs,
any organization that provides or refers patients for abortions is ineligible for Title X funding
to cover STD prevention, cancer screenings and contraception.
Senate Republicans Reveal Long-Awaited Affordable Care Act Repeal Bill | June 22, 2017 - NPR
"There are a few other ways the Senate bill mirrors the House bill.
In addition, it bans the use of any federal funds for any health care plan that covers abortion,
except in the cases of rape, incest or where the pregnancy puts the mother's life in danger."
Massive cuts to science and medicine in Trump budget | NCBI - NLM
Trump budget seeks huge cuts to disease prevention, medical research departments | May 23, 2017 - National Post
Planned Parenthood would be barred from receiving any HHS funding, according to a fact sheet accompanying the budget release
— a prohibition that would apply not just to Medicaid but to all programs. The fact sheet notes that this move
“follows through on a campaign promise” to block federal dollars from
“certain entities that provide abortions, including Planned Parenthood.”
U.S. House votes to overturn Obama regulation forcing states to fund Planned Parenthood | February 16, 2017 - Life Site
All Bill Information (Except Text) for H.J.Res.43 | Congress.gov
TEXT of H.J. Res. 43 | Congress.gov
Congress Just Got a Lot Closer to Defunding Planned Parenthood | February 16, 2017 - Mother Jones
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Catherine J. Wu, of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, USA, is a pioneer in research that may result in the development of personalised vaccines to treat cancer. She is now awarded the Sjöberg Prize, worth one million US dollars, for her work. Page includes video (6:53). The prize awarded for "discoveries concerning tumor neoantigens and the immune response to tumor cells as a basis for cancer vaccine development." |
"'It's important for cancer prevention and cancer treatment. That is what I received it for,' Sancar, who has U.S. and Turkish citizenship and is a professor at the University of North Carolina, told Reuters by telephone from his home."
Oncology is the branch of medicine that studies tumors (cancer) and seeks to understand their development, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention.
Performing a GOOGLE IMAGE search on something like dermatology common growths
will return many pictures, each connected to a webpage. If you have a skin lump, bump, or rash,
what you're probably looking for is a picture that looks the same and a webpage that goes with it.
So this might be your best bet.
Your immune system is trained to fight infection, but it also attacks parts of the body if they malfunction - such as in cancers.
However, tumours have a few tricks up their sleeve in order to survive.
They can produce a protein called PD-L1 which switches off any part of the immune system that tries to attack them.
Pembrolizumab is one of a suite of drugs called "checkpoint inhibitors" being developed by pharmaceutical companies.
They stop cancers turning off the immune system so the body can keep on attacking the tumour.
The findings were presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology."
[Excerpted from article: Prostate cancer immune system drug results could be 'spectacular' | June 2, 2018 - BBC]
| "The only other documented case of an HIV cure to date remains that of Timothy Brown, the so-called “Berlin patient.” In 2006, while on treatment for HIV, Mr. Brown was diagnosed with leukemia. His physician was able to treat his leukemia with a stem-cell transplant from a person who was born with a genetic mutation causing immunity to HIV infection. Following the transplant, Mr. Brown was able to stop HIV treatment without experiencing a return of his HIV disease." |
FDA Approves First Gene Therapies to Treat Patients with Sickle Cell Disease | FDA.gov
FDA approves cure for sickle cell disease, the first treatment to use CRISPR | Stat News
FDA approves first gene-editing treatment for human illness | December 8 - NPR
| SCD is a group of inherited red blood cell disorders. Healthy red blood cells are round, and they move through small blood vessels to carry oxygen to all parts of the body. In someone who has SCD, the red blood cells become hard and sticky and look like a C-shaped farm tool called a "sickle". |
Depression nasal spray is game-changer, says FDA | March 7, 2019 - WFLA
FDA advisory panel endorses breakthrough nasal spray treatment for depression
Video - Feb. 13, 2019 - NBC News
Facing Addiction in America: The Surgeon General's Report on Alcohol, Drugs, and Health [Internet].
Chapter 6: Health Care Systems and Substance Abuse Disorders | NCBI
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) || Parkinson's Disease || Cerebral Palsy || Shingles || Traumatic Brain Injury
Experimental Drug For Huntington's Disease Jams Malfunctioning Gene | May 9, 2019 - NPR
Large Picture of Endocrine System | General Functions of Hormones
