Prostate cancer tests are now OK with US panel, with caveats

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In this photo taken Friday, April 7, 2017, Dr. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo poses in her office in San Francisco. Draft recommendations from the US Preventive Services Task Force ditch the old advice against PSA screening and say whether to get tested should be left up to men aged 55 to 69 after being informed of the potential benefits and harms. The advice would bring the influential panel more in line with other major doctor groups. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)

Prostate cancer tests are now OK with US panel, with caveats

The Boston Globe
CHICAGO – An influential US government advisory panel is dropping its opposition to routine prostate cancer screening in favor of letting men decide for themselves after talking with their doctors.

Newlyweds both contract brain-invading parasite during honeymoon in Hawaii

Fox 59
HAWAII – A California couple’s honeymoon to Hawaii left them in agony after both newlyweds contracted rat lungworm disease, according to KGMB-TV.
U.S. News & World Report
Instead of focusing just on self-driving cars, the company is turning its attention to robots to help keep the country’s rapidly graying society on the move.

Hospital grants Danish man his dying wish: a glass of wine and a cigarette

CBS News
When Carsten Flemming Hansen was admitted to Aarhus University Hospital in Denmark, he learned he didn’t have much time left. According to a statement on Facebook from the hospital, Hansen was admitted last week after suffering an aortic aneurysm …

Dear Cosmopolitan magazine: ‘Cancer is not a diet plan’

Washington Post
Cosmopolitan, one of the country’s most widely distributed consumer magazines, has long come under fire for its focus on physical attractiveness.

Maryland Couple Finds Live Scorpion In Spinach Bag

Patch.com
What’s worse than finding a bug in your food? Maybe finding a live scorpion, which a Chevy Chase couple says happened to them.

Ebola nurse Pauline Cafferkey to return to Sierra Leone

BBC News
Pauline Cafferkey, the Scottish nurse who survived Ebola, is to return to Sierra Leone for the first time since contracting the disease there.

Chiropractors Not Magicians When It Comes to Chronic Back Pain

Arizona Daily Star
TUESDAY, April 11, 2017 (HealthDay News) — Chiropractors can help ease some cases of low back pain, though their treatments may be no better than taking an over-the-counter pain reliever, a new analysis finds.

ACMG Guidelines at Odds With FDA Green Light for 23andMe Health Risk Tests

GenomeWeb
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – The top organization in the US responsible for developing genetic testing guidelines is not on board with the US Food and Drug Administration’s decision last week to allow 23andMe to sell genetic health risk tests online directly …

Radio host opens up on personal reason why he believes judge’s Charlie Gard decision was wrong

Mirror.co.uk
Connie and Chris Gard were fighting for the right to take their eight-month-old son to America for experimental treatment. Share; Comments.

Fund vital AIDS relief programs in Africa

Charleston Post Courier
Last week in Gaborone, Botswana, Laura and I sat in a small room in Tlokweng Main Clinic, a facility that recently started screening and treating women for cervical cancer.

Bill to diversify Md. medical marijuana industry fails in final seconds of session

Washington Post
The leader of Maryland’s powerful Legislative Black Caucus knew she was facing defeat. Del. Cheryl D. Glenn (D-Baltimore) made diversifying the state’s new medical marijuana industry a top priority for the largest caucus in the General Assembly, and

Scientists come up with technique to make cells resistant to HIV virus

TheHealthSite
Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) found a way to tether HIV-fighting antibodies to immune cells. Agencies | Published: April 12, 2017 1:39 pm.

‘Very bad tick year’ expected for Alabama in 2017, and climate change a factor

AL.com
The black-legged tick, or deer tick, is known to carry and transmit the bacteria that causes Lyme disease. It is one of four species of tick found in Alabama.

Having gray hair may increase your risk of heart disease

Fox News
Beware, George Clooneys and Steve Martins of the world: The grayness of your hair could be a predictor of your heart disease risk.

Risk factors for heart disease and stroke also tied to Alzheimer’s

Reuters
One hemisphere of a healthy brain (L) is pictured next to one hemisphere of a brain of a person suffering from Alzheimer disease, at the Morphological unit of psychopathology in the Neuropsychiatry division of the Belle Idee University Hospital in …

Chewing gum that detects cancer in development

WPXI Pittsburgh
Who needs fancy scanners, blood tests and X-rays to tell us if we have cancer? Soon, if an Alabama company has its way, all we will need to do is chew a stick of gum.

Opponents make R.I. HPV vaccination mandate a legislative target

The Providence Journal
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Despite mounting evidence about the effectiveness and safety of vaccinating children against a virus that causes cervical cancer, opponents continue to press for repeal of Rhode Island’s vaccine mandate.

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