Omitting Radiation in Rectal Cancer: ‘Less Is More’

CHICAGO — Many patients with locally advanced rectal cancer can skip radiotherapy to the pelvic area, and instead be treated with chemotherapy alone and then surgery, say researchers reporting results from the PROSPECT trial. “This study establishes preoperative therapy with FOLFOX and only selective use of chemoradiation for patients with locally advanced rectal cancer,” commented principal investigator Deborah Schrag, MD, […]

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Denver Eating Recovery Center patients say treatment caused new trauma

Lizzy Earhart didn’t know much about Eating Recovery Center when she agreed to get treatment there in October 2020. She’d already received treatment for anorexia at another treatment provider in Denver, but she’d relapsed immediately after. But Eating Recovery Center was big, well-known. It seemed her best option. But the months she spent there reinforced her illness, the 21-year-old said, […]

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Robot surgeon cuts recovery time for women with endometriosis

How a £2m robot surgeon cuts recovery time for women left in agony by womb condition endometriosis High-tech remote control machines are being deployed by NHS trusts across UK NHS chiefs hope this will clear the backlog of women denied surgery by Covid  Robot surgeons are helping thousands of women left in agony by the womb condition endometriosis. The high-tech […]

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Countries with the highest suicide rates in the world REVEALED

Mapping despair: Countries with the highest suicide rates in the world REVEALED (and America and Britain’s positions might shock you… for the opposite reasons) The African country Lesotho had the highest rate of suicide in the world The US ranked significantly worse than the UK, at 31 out of a total 183 countries READ MORE: Attempted suicides by cannabis users […]

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Oncologist Pleads Guilty to Prescription Drug Fraud

A board-certified New Jersey oncologist has pled guilty to using her medical license to purchase cancer medications under the false pretense that they would be used to treat her own patients, according to a May 31 press release from the US Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey. Instead, the drug purchases were part of a fraudulent profit-making scheme. […]

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Nova Scotia wildfires sending unhealthy smoke plume to US Northeast

Large, uncontrolled wildfires in Nova Scotia are creating unhealthy air in the Northeast region of the United States, including parts of Connecticut. This significant smoke plume is likely to cause elevated levels of fine particulate matter, the American Lung Association warned in its alert. Particulate matter contains microscopic solids or liquid droplets that are so small that they can be […]

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'Barbie: The Movie' Dolls Are Now on Sale — & We Are Obsessed with the Iconic Outfits

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, SheKnows may receive an affiliate commission. It’s officially June, which means that the highly anticipated Greta Gerwig-directed film, Barbie: The Movie, officially comes out next month! The movie stars Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling as Barbie and Ken, and because Mattel knows that we are dying to […]

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Preventive Antipyretics, Antibiotics Not Needed in Stroke

The prophylactic use of antiemetic, antipyretic, or antibiotic drugs in older patients with acute stroke did not reduce the risk of poor functional outcome in the PRECIOUS trial. “The results of PRECIOUS do not support preventive use of antiemetic, antipyretic, or antibiotic drugs in older patients with acute stroke,” senior study author Bart van der Worp, MD, professor of acute […]

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