Although TRT has been gaining popularity over the years and is often prescribed for increasing libido and improving erectile function, the US FDA has only approved it for clinical hypogonadism, which is defined by The American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists as a decrease in sperm or testosterone production (testicular function). …
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Ten years ago, many patients with advanced melanoma died within six-nine months of diagnosis, with only about one in twenty surviving the disease. If caught early on, patients have a good chance of survival, but with time, the cancer becomes more aggressive and metastatic, and mortality rates fall sharply. Now, …
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Seventy percent of all breast cancers are estrogen-receptor positive, and hormone therapies are used to treat this type of breast cancer. A course of hormone therapy (either tamoxifen or aromatase inhibitors) targeting estrogen receptors are given after first removing the tumor with surgery. But, about 30 percent of patients taking …
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A new World Health Organization (WHO) study published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health Journal has found that more than 80% of school kids worldwide (85% of girls and 78% of boys, aged 11 to 17 years) did not meet the current recommendation of at least one hour of …
Read More »Pancreatic cancer (PC), an aggressive malignancy with one of the highest mortality rates amongst cancers, is characterized by rapid development, fast growth, and frequent lymph node metastasis, which contribute to its very poor prognosis. The overall five-year survival rate of patients with pancreatic cancer is only about nine percent …
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On June 25, 2019, the Endometriosis Foundation of America (EndoFound.org) announced that its year-long campaign to encourage New York State elected officials to pass endometriosis legislation has been approved unanimously in both the Assembly and the Senate. The bill will bring endometriosis education to New York’s school and medical practitioners. …
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In a recently published paper in Nature Communications, a group of researchers from Brunel University, London, and Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands, stated that in the near future, doctors will be able to predict an individual’s life span. Their study, involving data from 44,868 people aged between 16 years to …
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