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Their first baby came with medical debt: These parents won’t have another
by Noam N. Levey, KFF Health News Credit: CC0 Public Domain Heather Crivilare was a month from her due date when she was rushed to an operating room for an emergency cesarean section. The first-time mother, a high school teacher in rural Illinois, had developed high blood pressure, a sometimes life-threatening condition in pregnancy that
Heart attack symptoms: Know what’s a medical emergency
Heart attack symptoms: Know what's a medical emergency Whether the symptoms seem obvious or are more subtle, take them seriously and get immediate medical care. By Mayo Clinic Staff A heart attack usually causes chest pain for more than 15 minutes. The chest pain may be mild or severe. Some people don't have any chest
Ruger and Bnxn Drop Tracklist for Collaborative EP ‘RnB’
Music Nigerian music fans are in for a treat as Afrobeat stars Ruger and Bnxn unveil the official tracklist for their highly-anticipated collaborative...
Breast Cancer Pathology Report: What It Means
Understanding Your Breast Cancer Pathology Report Written by Beth Braverman 4 min read When you find out that you have breast cancer, your pathology report is a key document in your health records. A pathology report explains what a doctor called a pathologist found when examining a piece of your tissue from a biopsy or
The effort to make a breakthrough cancer therapy cheaper
This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, and read articles like this first, sign up here . CAR-T therapies, created by engineering a patient’s own cells to fight cancer, are typically reserved for people who have exhausted other treatment options. But last week
She survived womb cancer and started a wig salon to help others with hair loss
A cyst in her ovary led Misuzu Minamigawa Tashiro to discover she had womb or endometrial cancer. She tells CNA Women how her search for a wig to cover up her chemotherapy hair loss led her home to Osaka, Japan and then back to Singapore to open UZU Wig Salon...
Childhood cancer: know the early warning signs
The National Department of Health (NDoH) urges health care workers and communities to be aware of the SILUAN warning signs for childhood cancer. This will allow for early detection and effective management of childhood cancers which will result in better outcomes. Approximately 400 000 children and adolescents are diagnosed with cancer annually...
Cancer After Weight Loss; How Older Adults Use the Healthcare System
TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, and Rick Lange, MD, president of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in El Paso, look at the top medical stories of the week. This week's topics include closing the women's health
Transforming lung cancer types | Science
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Robotics to aid early lung cancer detection at Englewood Health
Doctors at Englewood Health in New Jersey are using the Ion endoluminal system from Intuitive Surgical to take tissue biopsies from the hard-to-reach outer third of the lung to identify early-stage lung cancer. WHY IT MATTERS Robotic-assisted bronchoscopy offers stability and greater precision over traditional bronchoscopy, according to Dr. David Shiu, chief of pulmonary medicine
61-year-old man with lung cancer runs 10km marathon for charity, hopes to inspire other patients , Lifestyle News
2022 was a harrowing year for Zheng Yongyi. Diagnosed with stage-four lung cancer, Zheng's doctor had told him he had three months left to live. But the 61-year-old defied expectation and continues to fight the disease more than a year after his diagnosis. He has also not let his circumstance stop him from wanting to
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Their first baby came with medical debt: These parents won’t have another
by Noam N. Levey, KFF Health News Credit: CC0 Public Domain Heather Crivilare was a month from her due date when she was rushed to an operating room for an emergency cesarean section. The first-time mother, a high school teacher in rural Illinois, had developed high blood pressure, a sometimes life-threatening condition in pregnancy that
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Heart attack symptoms: Know what’s a medical emergency
Heart attack symptoms: Know what's a medical emergency Whether the symptoms seem obvious or are more subtle, take them seriously and get immediate medical care. By Mayo Clinic Staff A heart attack usually causes chest pain for more than 15 minutes. The chest pain may be mild or severe. Some people don't have any chest
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