Medical
The FDA Is Investigating a Possible Link Between E-Cigarettes and Seizures
The agency said it had observed a slight increase in the reports of seizures since last June and has identified 35 cases of seizures following use of e-cigarettes between 2010 and early 2019. "We can't yet say for certain that e-cigarettes are causing these seizures", Gottlieb and Abernethy said. Seizures have been reported to have occurred after a few puffs or up to one day after use. [Full Article...]
Collins Asks Barr to Back Off Affordable Care Act
Last Monday, a court filing indicated that the Justice Department would now be adopting the position that the whole law would need to go, which is how a far-right federal judge ruled in a decision the judge paused for the case's appeal. Barr at the time decided that president could "enforce the remainder of a statute after an unconstitutional provision had been severed". "If Congress had meant to ... [Full Article...]
American researchers develop wearable device to identify cancer
Hayes, a breast cancer researcher at the University of MI and study senior author, said in a news release. Tumors can release more than 1,000 cancer cells into the bloodstream in a single minute. It's important to measure cancer cells in the blood, the team said, because those roving cells are the most unsafe and most likely to spark new tumours . [Full Article...]
Jeremy Bowen reveals bowel cancer diagnosis UK News
NHS England said there were 70,000 visits to the NHS website advice page on prostate cancer in March a year ago, a 250% increase from the monthly average of around 20,000. Bowen had a colonoscopy, which led to the discovery of a tumour, which he then had removed in an operation. I had surgery to take it away. "I had kept quiet about it, except to my nearest and dearest and friends and so on", ... [Full Article...]
Brisk walk staves off disability in oldies
About 14 million older Americans have symptomatic knee osteoarthritis , the most common type of osteoarthritis. Four years after the start of the study , about 1 in 4 adults who did not get this hour of brisk physical activity were walking too slowly to safely cross the street. [Full Article...]
Boots could close stores and axe some of its 60,000 United Kingdom staff
Boots is owned by the US-based Walgreens Boots Alliance, which has said it is making "decisive steps" to cut costs - including reviewing its 2,500 stores. dollars (£383 million) to more than 1.5 billion USA dollars (£1.1 billion) by 2022. US-based Walgreens Boots Alliance said it had started taking "decisive steps" in the United Kingdom to cut costs, including reviewing its near-2,500 retail s... [Full Article...]
Trump Teases Vote on GOP's Next Obamacare Replacement
Trump tweeted late Monday that Congress will vote on a GOP plan after the elections , "when Republicans hold the Senate & win back the House". Multiple Republican senators who Trump name-checked said they were not a part of a working group, but had spoken with the President about health care recently. [Full Article...]
US Doctors Transplant Kidney From One HIV Patient To Another
The surgery was successfully carried out by doctors at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore , Maryland. "Here's a disease that in the past was a death sentence and now has been so well controlled that it offers people with that disease an opportunity to save somebody else", said Dr. [Full Article...]