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Green Bay Packers TE Jared Cook undergoes foot surgery
The Sports Xchange Green Bay Packers tight end Jared Cook underwent foot surgery this week and will miss the rest of the offseason program, according to reports Friday.
Matt Kemp blast lifts San Diego Padres past Colorado Rockies
By Bill Center, The Sports Xchange SAN DIEGO -- The Padres Friday found the perfect response to an historic collapse.
Chemotherapy and exercise: The right dose of workout helps side effects
Researchers discovered something simple and inexpensive to reduce neuropathy in hands and feet due to chemotherapy -- exercise.
Counseling patients at risk for cancer over the phone reduces costs and access burdens
Delivering genetic test results to patients at risk for cancer-causing genetic mutations over the phone helps to ease cost and transportation burdens and, compared to receiving results in person, does...
Improved progression-free survival for lutathera over octreotide
Researchers will present results of the phase 3 NETTER-1 study, showing clinically meaningful and significant results for Lutathera (77Lu-DOTA0-Tyr3-Octreotate) in patients with metastatic midgut neuroendocrine tumors (NETs).
Obesity continues to increase in Sweden, even in the last few years
Sweden has always been associated with good health indicators. However new research presented at the summit shows that obesity has continued to increase across mid-Sweden since the start of the...
Stress hormone link with psychosis
A link between levels of the stress hormone cortisol and psychosis has been discovered by researchers, which could help identify people at greatest risk of developing the severe mental disorder.
When it comes to making patients safer, is a hospital's 'safety culture' that important?
If you work in a hospital these days, you’ve probably gotten the invitation: Take a survey about how well you, your team and your hospital do at protecting patients from...
Cobimetinib in advanced melanoma with BRAF V600 mutation: Added benefit now considerable
Further advantages of the drug Cobimetinib in comparison with the comparator therapy resulted from the analyses subsequently submitted by the drug manufacturer in the commenting procedure.
Therapeutic antibody eculizumab caught in action
Scientists have used X-rays to understand how the therapeutic antibody eculizumab prevents our immune system from destroying red blood cells and damaging kidney tissue.
Chicken mesmerized by animal documentaries while recovering from injury
Daniel UriaSAN FRANCISCO, June 3 (UPI) -- An injured chicken in California perhaps drew inspiration from videos of other animals during its recovery process.
Listeria concern prompts recall of certain Spitz, Quaker and CLIF Bar products
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has issued recall warnings for Quaker Harvest brand quinoa granola bars, Spitz brand sunflower kernels and Sierra Trail Mix CLIF energy bars due to possible...
Q&A: Matt Damon on making a difference in the world
The Academy Award-winning actor and filmmaker Matt Damon is MIT’s 2016 Commencement speaker. Damon, a native of Cambridge, Massachusetts, first shot to fame playing a gifted MIT janitor in the 1997 film “Good...
5 reasons why you need to get in shape now - before it's too late
When you're in your 20s and 30s, it can be shockingly easy to find reasons to put off exercise. (After all, “Game of Thrones” won't binge-watch itself.) But staying glued to...
Meet the women who are taking on Walmart
Annelise Orleck, Dartmouth College Walmart associates have been fighting for four years to pressure the world's largest private employer to grant its workers a living wage and regular hours.
Testing blood metabolites could help tailor cancer treatment
Testing for metabolic changes in the blood could indicate whether a cancer drug is working as designed, a new study reports. This new way of monitoring cancer therapy could speed...
Enzyme with high potential for new cancer treatment identified
A team of researchers has identified an enzyme that separates DNA replication from repair. This discovery could be of tremendous significance in the treatment of tumors.
From a heart in a backpack to a heart transplant
More than a year after leaving the hospital without a human heart, Stan Larkin, 25, trades his wearable total artificial heart for a real one. The surgery was a unique...
Sparrow appears to revive unconscious comrade with 'CPR'
Ben HooperVIJAYAWADA, India, June 3 (UPI) -- A sparrow in India was caught on camera appearing to give CPR to a distressed cohort and the brave bird was successful in...
Pregnant women may need more information about medicine use
Pregnant women overestimate the risks of taking over the counter and prescribed medication. New findings reveal that women choose not to medicate common pregnancy symptoms such as nausea, heartburn and...
Promising treatment prospects for invasive breast cancer
Scientists have now been able to understand for the first time why many cancer cells adapt relatively quickly to the treatment with therapeutic antibodies in invasive forms of breast cancer....
Investigational immunotherapy drug shrinks tumors in high-risk neuroblastoma patients
Investigators report promising preliminary results for an experimental monoclonal antibody when combined with chemotherapy for newly diagnosed neuroblastoma patients.
Are public pools a growing health threat?
Stephen FellerWASHINGTON, June 2 (UPI) -- Media coverage of a CDC report warned of the threat of bacteria in public pools, but aquatic centers had more safety violations than disinfectant...
Swine Researcher to Share Expertise on Colibacillosis
"It's the diarrhea that can kill you," noted professor emeritus David Francis, an expert on colibacillosis, an intestinal disease that affects newborn and weanling pigs. The toxin-producing E. Coli bacterium...
Toxic legacy of Agent Orange lives on in Vietnam
Scientists are struggling to clean up dioxin-contaminated soil that has been linked to devastating illnesses among thousands of people
THINGS TO KNOW: California's new rules for end-of-life drugs
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- California's new law allowing life-ending drugs for the terminally ill has the strictest requirements of any of the five...
New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft passes on Deflategate questions
The Sports Xchange As Deflategate passes 500 days since the now-infamous incident during the AFC Championship Game in Jan. 2015, the case drags on.
Acrobat who gave woman HIV to be freed from Australian jail
SYDNEY (AP) -- A Zimbabwean circus acrobat who infected his girlfriend with HIV through frequent unprotected sex received a suspended sentence on Friday...