Medicine

Medicine

When Lisa Dutton was declared free of breast cancer in 2017, she took a moment to celebrate with family and friends, even though she knew her cancer journey might not be over. As many as one-third of people whose breast tumours are cleared see the disease come back, sometimes decades later. Many other cancers are known to recur in the years following an initial treatment, some at much higher rates.

During that time, I've had two long-term male partners, who shared similar issues. The first felt the IUD several times during sex. I had my doctor snip the strings shorter. This did not help. It still poked him, and he even bled once. My second long-term partner (and current husband) had the same issue. I got a new IUD and kept the strings long since they're supposed to "curl up." Didn't help.

The FlowPad looks like your run-of-the-mill menstrual pad but is built with a microfluidic diagnostic layer underneath that directs menstrual blood into biomarker zones for testing fertility, ovarian health, and perimenopausal hormones. The results of the test show up in Vivoo's app after a user scans the pad's results through their phone camera or enters them manually. The ethos behind FlowPad and Vivoo's smart toilet is simple.

A nosebleed, known medically as epistaxis, comes in two forms: anterior and posterior. About 90% of nosebleeds are anterior, and start in the area between your two nostrils, called Kiesselbach's plexus, says Loftus. This area contains a lot of blood vessels little capillaries that keep the nostrils well supplied with blood, to warm the air you inhale. These can break open, creating a bleed that mostly pours from the nostril, though some blood may trickle into the mouth or throat, especially if you lean your head back.

Dr. Elyse Stevens had a reputation for taking on complex medical cases, including people who'd been battling addiction for decades. Some were chronic-pain patients on high doses of opioids; others were sex workers and people living on the street. "Many of my patients are messy, the ones that don't know if they want to stop using drugs or not," said Stevens, a primary care and addiction medicine doctor.

Studies suggest nearly 60 percent of people with OSA experience some degree of cognitive impairment, including difficulties with attention, working memory, and episodic memory. Mood disorders such as depression and anxiety are also more common. Over time, untreated sleep apnea has been linked to declines in concentration, executive function, and long-term memory. So what's actually happening inside the brain while someone with undiagnosed sleep apnea sleeps?

The Wegovy pill-which has been in clinical trials for over two years and was approved by the FDA on December 22-is the first and only oral GLP-1 for weight loss in adults available in the U.S. According to a press release from Novo Nordisk, the pill hit the market on January 5 at more than 70,000 U.S. pharmacies and several popular telehealth providers. Per a KFF health tracking poll released in November, one in eight Americans were already taking a GLP-1 for weight-loss.

"For the first 38 years of my life, I was overweight - now I'm six stone (38kg) [83 pounds] lighter," Tanya Hall, a Wegovy user who can't get off the drug, told the news organization. "Therefore, there's part of me that feels like there's an addiction to keep it going because it makes me feel the way that I feel, it makes me feel in control."

We were told that they're probably never going to be able to walk, they probably will never regain their neck strength, so they will be disabled, and so the best thing we can do right now is to get them treatment, and then just hope for the best, she said. Thankfully, the girls have had their treatment, which you know, I'm so grateful for because if they don't have it, they will die.

I was off work for a few weeks, but without paid leave I had to return sooner than doctors advised. I worked from home for a few months since I still couldn't drive. I loved the challenge of the work, the way no day was ever the same, and I had thrived on that pace. But I was still recovering. Winded by the smallest physical activity, I struggled with memory, and words sometimes came out scrambled or not at all.

It carries most of the weight of the body, and being a hinge joint, it means that it doesn't have a nice socket structure, says physiotherapist Dr Jillian Eyles, from the University of Sydney. It relies on the ligaments and the joint capsules and the muscles around it to really stabilise the joint, and it's fairly easy to injure compared to another joint that's more supported.

Like, I've seen patients with vague, intermittent 'dizziness,' that actually has been happening for months. It's always: 'OMG. What's wrong with me? This is so strange; better go to the ER.' But on the other hand, some people wake up and their arm doesn't work, and they're like, 'Hmm, maybe I can ride this one out.' - u/noteasybeincheesy

One day my left foot hurt for no good reason. I stood up to shake off the pain and tweaked my right Achilles tendon, so I headed for the medicine cabinet, bent over like an ape because of a stiff back. Actually, I lied. It wasn't one day. It's pretty much every day.

Go for a run, watch a film, try to entertain someone else's baby: anything that involves pottering about in an undemanding yet still vaguely engaged way, which absolutely couldn't be classed as work but isn't totally vegetative either. It may not be the productivity hack any go-getter wants to hear, but it's surprising how often a spell of aimless noodling around frees an otherwise overworked human brain to make the kind of lateral mental leap that helps everything fall into place.

When Dan Richards went for a New Year's Eve swim in 2023, he never could have imagined how drastically his life would change. In a freak accident, he injured his neck when a wave caused him to flip and hit the sand in Langland Bay, Swansea. "I knew instantly that I was paralysed," the 37-year-old said. "I couldn't move anything." Doctors told him he would be bed-bound but, two years later, he uses a wheelchair and can move his arms and fingers.

Drugmakers plan to raise U.S. prices on at least 350 branded medications including vaccines against COVID, RSV and shingles and blockbuster cancer treatment Ibrance, even as the Trump administration pressures them for cuts, according to data provided exclusively by healthcare research firm 3 Axis Advisors. The number of price increases for 2026 is up from the same point last year, when drugmakers unveiled plans for raises on more than 250 drugs.

The researchers assessed the quality of their sleep across five dimensions in 27,500 middle-aged and elderly people (average age 54.7 years) enrolled in the UK Biobank (a research institute conducting long-term follow-up studies of the effects of genetic predisposition and lifestyle on disease). Approximately nine years later, they scanned the participants' brains with MRI and used machine learning models to estimate their biological brain age.

Now, scientists have detected two new biological strands of MS using AI, a simple blood test and MRI scans. Experts said the exciting breakthrough could revolutionise treatment of the disease worldwide. In research involving 600 patients, led by University College London (UCL) and Queen Square Analytics, researchers looked at blood levels of a special protein called serum neurofilament light chain (sNfL).

CSU is characterised by the sudden appearance of uncomfortable hives and affects about 1pc of the population.

Extraordinary medical cases-even the grisly and disturbing ones-offer a reprieve from the onslaught of current events and the stresses of our daily lives. With those remarkable reports, we can marvel at the workings, foibles, and resilience of the human body. They can remind us of the shared indignities from our existence in these mortal meatsacks. We can clear our minds of worry by learning about something we never even knew we should worry about-or by counting our blessings for avoiding so far.

Occasionally, we'll see an ad or hear about something in what I would call the wellness-industrial complex (companies eager to earn a buck on people by sending lab tests that have dubious clinical significance and then selling the customer a cure, a panacea, or a longevity or athleticism cheat code), and he'll become surprisingly resentful and woeful about the entire concept of medicine, complaining that it offers him nothing because it only treats diseases rather than offering enhancements that could make him, essentially, superior to a typical disease free human (superhuman?).

I don't look at it as too far different from any other kind of extreme challenge where conventional wisdom will tell you that this doesn't make a whole lot of sense," Siddiqi said. "The process of actually achieving it I think can have significant physical and mental impact and can reshape your view of yourself or your view of your capabilities or your understanding of your body and its limitations," he added.

CGMP stands for "Current Good Manufacturing Process," which are FDA guidelines put in place for a product's safety. This includes where and how it was made, as well as what it was made of. But even with this kind of baseline, it's hard to tell what additives are used in a supplement and how that can counteract its effects or react with your body chemistry.

One user asked, "Now what made you say, let me go put some makeup on?" Another chimed in, "Why are people so afraid of aging?" Mostly, though, people questioned why someone would undergo such an intense procedure in the first place. Was this an example of skin care culture gone too far, or a part of dermatologic care that actually delivers results?

"REPORTS A BAG OF MARIJUANA HAS BEEN IN HER VAGINA FOR 2 DAYS AND IS UNCOMFORTABLE" BRACELET CHARMS 2 VIBRATORS 2 PENIS RING "WAS USING A PIECE OF PLASTIC TO MASTURBATE WHEN GOT SPOOKED BY THE WIND OUTSIDE AND THREW THE SHEET OVER HERSELF IN THE PROCESS LODGING THE PIECE OF PLASTIC DEEPER INTO HER VAGINA AND WASN'T ABLE TO RETRIEVE" DETERGENT POD PLUNGER CAP BEER BOTTLE, "WAS ON A CRUISE ON HER HONEYMOON"

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Novo Nordisk's weight-loss pill on Monday, giving the Danish drugmaker a leg up in the race to market a potent oral medication for shedding pounds as it looks to regain lost ground from rival Eli Lilly. The pill is 25 milligrams of semaglutide, the same active ingredient in injectable Wegovy and Ozempic, and will be sold under the brand name Wegovy. Novo already sells an oral semaglutide for type 2 diabetes, Rybelsus.

U.S. regulators on Monday gave the green light to a pill version of the blockbuster weight-loss drug Wegovy, the first daily oral medication to treat obesity. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's approval handed drugmaker Novo Nordisk an edge over rival Eli Lilly in the race to market an obesity pill. Lilly's oral drug, orforglipron, is still under review. Both pills are GLP-1 drugs that work like widely used injectables to mimic a natural hormone that controls appetite and feelings of fullness.