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She's happy, healthy, and everything we could've hoped for. I had a vaginal birth at 36 weeks with just a bit of tearing, nothing too major, thankfully, and recovery has been going pretty well so far," she prefaces in her post on the Mommit subreddit. She notes that she's missing "intimacy" with her husband, noting the last time they had sex was when she was 32 weeks pregnant.

If more than half a century ago, science looked expectantly at the potential of chemotherapy to combat cancer; or 15 years ago, oncologists did the same with immunotherapy, which energized the immune system's own defenses to attack tumor cells; now the spotlight has turned to an innovative treatment that is reaping promising results: antibodydrug conjugates (ADCs), treatments that function like a Trojan horse, delivering chemotherapy to the interior of tumor cells to destroy them.

Packing for an international trip often means triple-checking that you have your passport, wallet, and phone before you leave the house. But one essential item travelers often overlook-or mismanage-is their medication. Forgetting a travel pill case, packing it in checked luggage, or not following TSA rules can quickly turn a dream vacation into a stressful scramble. Even over-the-counter basics, like children's Tylenol or chewable Pepto-Bismol, can be surprisingly hard to find abroad, especially in countries where pharmacies stock different formulations or ban certain medications altogether.

The groundbreaking clinical trial, described on 31 October in the American Journal of Human Genetics, will deploy an offshoot of the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technique called base editing, which allows scientists to make precise, single-letter changes to DNA sequences. The study is expected to begin next year, after its organizers spent months negotiating with US regulators over ways to simplify the convoluted path a gene-editing therapy normally has to take before it can enter trials.

High street drugstore chain DM expects to launch an online pharmacy in the coming weeks, according to a report by business publication Handelsblatt. Rossmann and supermarket giant Lidl are reportedly preparing to follow suit, with plans to offer non-prescription (over-the-counter, OTC) medicines via their websites. To comply with German law, which restricts pharmacy operations to licensed pharmacists, the companies plan to ship medicines from neighbouring countries DM from the Czech Republic and Rossmann from the Netherlands.

Somewhere in the US a woman on her period pulled out her dripping, saturated tampon. But instead of wrapping it in toilet paper and tossing it into a bin, she put the tampon in a special plastic sample container, screwed the lid on tight and mailed it to an address in Oakland, California. The address was that of NextGen Jane (NGJ), a Bay Area-based startup founded in 2014.

I'm bald, and that bothered me for a long time. It bothered me that I was bothered. But just one swipe down my Instagram feed reveals I'm not the only man who is self-conscious about his hair. I'm greeted with videos and posts offering me hair transplants, regrowth tablets, thickening sprays, powders that fill gaps, and hair systems (once known as wigs or toupees). These products promise to restore my "lost confidence" and stop my lack of hair from "holding back" my life.

Toronto lawyer Salima Fakirani was 31 when she decided to freeze her eggs. She had been considering it for a couple of years, and had even gone for a consult at a fertility clinic. But when her employer introduced egg-freezing benefits, she decided to go for it. She did two rounds of egg freezing and got a "good number" of her eggs into storage.

Obviously I'm going to tell everyone as they come in, Just so you know, this is not how I look,' says the 30-year-old real estate agent from south Florida. How she looks is, well, a little startling her face swollen and preternaturally lifted, as though held together by industrial-grade tape. Her new and she's keen to stress, temporary look is the result of six cosmetic procedures, including an endoscopic mid-facelift, performed by a doctor in Istanbul, Turkey, last month.

The liver's primary function is to detoxify things — break them down and make them into usable units of currency for the body, or get rid of them if they're harmful. As we get older, toxic byproducts of alcohol linger in the body The liver breaks down alcohol with the help of enzymes, but as we get older it produces fewer of them, meaning toxic byproducts such as acetaldehyde — the compound responsible for many hangover symptoms — linger in the body.

The retina and the optic nerve are outgrowths of neural tissue, and the remarkable success of electronic implants in restoring sight shows how far brain-computer interfaces have come. These have not delivered a sci-fi vision of augmented humans with incredible new powers but, perhaps more happily, significant progress has been made, restoring ability and agency to those who have suffered injury or disease.

It's pretty unusual in the medical system for a patient to be tasked with finding their own cure. But that's what happened to Stephanie Azzarello in 2023 when she was told she needed a liver transplant or she would die. Azzarello has primary sclerosing cholangitis, a rare chronic liver disease that causes damage to the bile ducts and the liver.

Not taking care of your feet. I have regularly seen older patients come into the hospital with very long toenails and nail fungus that HAS to be a 20-year (at least) case. I know the older folks are often on a fixed income, but Medicare pays for a podiatrist to do nail trims. This is not a luxury. If you can't reach your feet, see a podiatrist regularly. There are treatments that work. As we age, often the blood vessels in our legs aren't optimal, so it's important to address issues early. Ingrown toenails and fungus can present - or indicate - other problems.

MIAMI - I am watching a man paralyzed from the neck down lift an artificial arm by merely thinking about do so. I am watching another quadriplegic play drums thanks to similar microchip in his brain. I am listening to doctors talk of hypothermia protocol, brain-computer interface and how artificial intelligence will help change the wheelchair world. "What do you think?" a scientist asks. "This is the greatest sports story of my lifetime," I say.

The supplements were: Artri King, Nhan Sam Tuyet Lien, and Linsen Double Caulis Plus. All are known to contain unlisted glucocorticoids, according to the Food and Drug Administration. And testing of two of the man's supplements by the hospital confirmed the presence of the steroids. Doctors determined that the man had essentially overdosed on the glucocorticoids-he had taken doses that exceeded the normal levels of glucocorticoids in the body.

Like with men, testosterone boosts sex drive and aggression inwomen, and limited studies show it may support bone health, as well as contribute to mood and energy. Testosterone production tends to peak in women'slate teens and early 20s, and slowly declines thereafter; after menopause, itslevels are halved. Add it all up, the New York Times reports in a new feature, and many are framing testosterone supplements as something akin to an off-label fountain of youth.

Since hair growth products come in such a wide range, the biggest thing to consider when choosing what to use is compliance. If you can't stick with it for at least six months (and more likely a year), you are unlikely to see the results you want. In addition to that, there are a few other things to consider as well. Key Ingredients: Hair growth products use a variety of ingredients to help promote hair growth.

The research team, a mixture of people from a biotech company and academic labs, used a commercial injection setup that mixes the injection of the DNA with short pulses of electricity. The electricity disrupts the cell membrane, allowing the plasmid DNA to make it inside cells. Based on animal testing, doing this in muscle cells is enough to turn the muscles into factories producing lots of broadly neutralizing antibodies.

The Enhanced Games, a new sporting competition explicitly designed to allow performance-enhancing drugs, looks like a publicity stunt for the techno-macho era: Olympic athletes on steroids competing for million-dollar bounties in Las Vegas. But co-founder Aron D'Souza has a 90% gross margin telehealth business in mind, and a pitch to governments struggling with aging populations. Launching in May 2026 with Peter Thiel's backing, the Games promise $1 million bounties for breaking world records.

The study, led by Lisa Beutler, MD, PhD, assistant professor of Medicine in the Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Molecular Medicine, improves the understanding of the molecular mechanisms influenced by these drugs and could help refine the development of future targeted therapies for treating diabetes and obesity. Incretin receptor agonists are a class of drugs that mimic the effects of incretin hormones - glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) and glucose-dependent insulinotropic peptide (GIP) - to stimulate insulin secretion and regulate blood sugar levels.

A sweeping review of over 200 studies finds that aerobic exercises like walking and cycling offer the best pain relief and mobility gains for knee osteoarthritis. Compared to other types of exercise, aerobic training showed the strongest evidence across short- and long-term outcomes. All forms of exercise were found to be safe, but experts recommend making aerobic activity the foundation of treatment. Share:

"Nowadays, everyone gets so caught up in technique - 'oh, you had a deep plane, you had a SMAS,'" he said. "'But the main factor is actually the surgeon.' He said he's seen huge disparities in facelift results, for example, even if the procedure itself is the same."

LONDON - The doctors prepared to carry out the brain surgery, their medical tools laid out. Their patient, wide awake on the operating table, was given an instrument of her own: her clarinet, which she began to play. Denise Bacon, 65, blew into the mouthpiece as doctors stood behind her, piercing holes into her skull to implant electrodes that would deliver electrical pulses to the brain in a bid to improve her motor skills. The electrodes were connected to a pulse generator - a device likened to a pacemaker - which sent continuous pulses to modify the brain, helping her manage her symptoms of Parkinson's disease, for which there is no cure.

More than 50 percent of lung-transplant recipients experience a rejection of their new lung within five years of receiving it, yet the reason why this is such a prevalent complication has remained a medical mystery. Now, a new Northwestern Medicine study published in JCI Insight has found that, following transplant and in chronic disease states, abnormal cells emerge and "conversations" between them drive the development of lung damage and transplant rejection.

Neurologists are expected to soon examine whether former NFL running back Doug Martin, who died in Oakland police custody over the weekend after an alleged home break-in, suffered from a degenerative brain disease found in a growing number of professional athletes. Martin's brain is being preserved for tests to determine whether he suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, authorities confirmed to this news organization on Tuesday.

The US Food and Drug Administration has approved a blood test to aid in the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease - the second such test and the first cleared for use in primary-care settings, such as a doctor's office. The test measures Alzheimer's-related proteins to rule out the disease in people with cognitive decline. Last week, pharma company Roche announced that the test was correctly able to rule out Alzheimer's 97.9% of the time.