Understanding cancer risk and making a concrete plan helped sustain gastric screening during the pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted almost everything that depended on routine, predictability, and trust — including cancer screening. In many plac...
Read moreAs obesity drugs expand treatment, dietitian-led care may take on a bigger role — but the strength of that recommendation is not confirmed by the supplied evidence The rise of obesity drugs is changing more than the number on the scale. It is also ch...
Read moreObesity drugs may lower blood pressure as they help people lose weight For years, the main argument for obesity drugs was straightforward: they help people lose weight. That alone matters for many patients. But the conversation is shifting. The quest...
Read moreWeight cycling remains a clinical concern, but the new headline about yo-yo dieting is not confirmed by the supplied evidence Few ideas about weight loss have become as culturally entrenched as the belief that yo-yo dieting — losing weight and then r...
Read moreNew targeted therapies are expanding options for selected patients with advanced prostate cancer For years, treatment for advanced prostate cancer has carried a frustrating pattern. Even when new drugs arrived, they did not work equally well for ever...
Read moreWhy breast cancer may become harder to control with age Age enters conversations about breast cancer almost automatically. The older the patient, the greater the concern about prognosis, treatment tolerance, and mortality. But an important question r...
Read moreNew obesity drugs may help asthma control in some patients, but the evidence is still indirect Asthma has never been a one-size-fits-all disease. In some people it looks mostly like classic allergic airway inflammation. In others, it is entangled wit...
Read moreMissing information in national cancer databases can create blind spots in research and policy In the age of big data, national cancer registries have become a kind of invisible infrastructure for public health. They help answer basic but critical qu...
Read moreAI is starting to map how cells communicate inside diseased tissue, opening new clues especially in cancer One of the long-standing limits of medical biology has been the difficulty of seeing disease as a living system of interactions. For decades, m...
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