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ThursdayOct 16, 2025 10:00 am

Researchers Urge Canadians to Donate Toenails, for Science

A new study that is being planned by scientists at the University of Calgary, Canada, is looking to receive up to 10,000 toenail samples from volunteers around the country. The reason for this seemingly odd request is to study how to accurately measure how much radon someone has been exposed to and link this exposure to their risk of developing lung cancer. The drivers of the development of lung cancer have been quite an enigma to the scientific community. While smoking has been identified to be a leading cause of the disease, a notable fraction of lung cancer patients don’t…

TuesdayOct 14, 2025 10:00 am

New Report Highlights Concerning Trends in the US Health Care System

There is general agreement that the U.S. health care system has issues, but there isn’t consensus on what exactly needs to be done to fix those issues. A new report published by Trilliant Health, an economic analysis company, points out some notable trends that should be given the attention they deserve by health care system stakeholders. The authors indicate in the report that by 2033, the share of GDP going into health care costs will climb to 20.3%. On the surface, this may look like increasing amounts of resources are going to be channeled into health care and this would…

FridayOct 10, 2025 10:00 am

How You Can Support Your Loved One Undergoing Cancer Treatment

Having a loved one diagnosed with cancer can be a very difficult time for that person and those within their immediate circle. It is often difficult to know how to support the patient during their treatment and some people make mistakes in their bid to be supportive. We discuss some suggestions that could be helpful if a loved one is undergoing cancer treatment. For starters, it is good to focus on what you are good at and offer help along those lines. Don’t try to be or do everything in your bid to help. For example, if you come from…

ThursdayOct 09, 2025 10:00 am

Scientists Stunned Upon Discovering Glioblastoma Erodes Skull Tissue

For long, treatment approaches to glioblastoma, the deadliest form of brain cancer, have assumed that the disease is localized. However, a recent study has found that GBM erodes the skulls of its victims and this could partially explain why the current therapies have had dismal success rates against the tumors. For their study, the team analyzed scans of the skulls of mice afflicted by two types of glioblastoma. They found that the skulls were thinner than they should be. On examining scans of humans with GBM, they found altered skull thickness, especially in the areas where bones fused. The study…

TuesdayOct 07, 2025 10:00 am

Lund University Researchers Discover Why Leukemia Cells Evade the Immune System

While immunotherapy has scored a significant level of success in treating many types of cancer, it hasn’t registered similar efficacy in leukemia, especially acute myeloid leukemia, also known as AML. Researchers at Lund University, Sweden have found a possible reason why this could be so. The team sought to identify any unique surface proteins on leukemia cells that could be targeted with new forms of treatment, especially if those unique proteins didn’t exist on healthy cells. Thoas Fioretos, who led the research team, explains that they found one protein on the surface of leukemia stem cells and this particular protein…

FridayOct 03, 2025 10:00 am

Why Health Insurance Credits Led to the Federal Government Shutdown

Lawmakers in the U.S. Congress hit a stalemate in talks to keep the government open and on Wednesday, a shutdown commenced. At the core of the disagreement between GOP lawmakers and their Democratic Party counterparts are the health care tax credits in the Affordable Care Act due to expire at the end of this year and which the Big Beautiful Bill’s provisions don’t include an extension to these tax credits. A lot has been said about the cuts to Medicare and Medicaid under that law, and the refusal to renew those ACA tax credits only piles to the hardship that…

ThursdayOct 02, 2025 10:00 am

Rapid Spread of ‘Nightmare Bacteria’ Triggers Alarm

In 2013, former CDC director Tom Frieden observed that there were rising cases of ‘nightmare bacteria’, a category of bacteria characterized by three deadly attributes; resistance to all or almost all antibiotics, high mortality levels, and their ability to spread antibiotic resistance to other types of bacteria. From this triple threat of these microbes, one can understand why they are described as ‘nightmare bacteria.’ Data shows that cases of these bacteria are increasing at an alarming rate in the U.S. Available statistics indicate that there has been a nearly 70% spike in incidences of nightmare bacteria in the years 2019-2023.…

TuesdaySep 30, 2025 10:00 am

Scorpion Venom Shows Promise in Brain Tumor Treatment

The sight of a scorpion moving towards you with its stinger raised can send a chill down the spine of the bravest among us. If you watched Fear Factor, you saw how terrified the contestants were to come face to face with these creatures. While scorpions have been portrayed as the stuff of nightmares, scientists have found that they can be useful in the fight against brain cancer. The study, which was conducted by City of Hope, a consortium of research centers in different cities around America focused on studying cancer, suggests that scorpion venom can help to guide our…

FridaySep 26, 2025 10:00 am

Landmark Study Shows How Menopause Influences the Symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis

Groundbreaking research presented at the ECTRIMS 2025 conference held in Barcelona, Spain provides new insights into the ways in which menopause impacts the health implications and clinical manifestations in women who have multiple sclerosis. This study shows that changes in hormones influence the initial symptoms experienced by women with MS and also play a role in the comorbidities suffered by the affected individuals. It has been known that MS disproportionately impacts women and the progression of the disease is influenced by the biological variables of the different sexes. However, the role that menopause plays in people with this disease hasn’t…

TuesdaySep 23, 2025 10:00 am

How Federal Policies are Making Health Care More Costly for Families

Most American families are very concerned about health care costs, and recent policy decisions at the federal level will increase the costs that families have to incur for health care. We discuss some of those policy decisions that are causing an uptick in the cost of health care. For starters, the tariffs announced by President Trump and those he is threatening to impose will make the cost of importing prescription drugs into the U.S. higher. As companies incur higher costs to bring in drugs, those additional costs will inevitably be passed on to patients and their caregivers. Given that many…