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The ketogenic diet, which relies on fats and proteins as energy sources and avoids carbohydrates, actually began 100 years ago as a means to control epilepsy in both adults and children and was also used for a host of other …

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Among doctors who specialize in cancer treatment, only very few broached the subject of end of life decisions with their patients, even when an analysis of recordings of their encounters pointed toward an opportunity to do so, a recent study …

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Bringing a new drug or biological agent to market is extremely expensive, a fact many manufacturer’s cite in pricing. Now a new study points to the fact that new agents are also very expensive in terms of human capital. William …

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Clinical trial results are required by federal law to be posted within two years of a trial’s conclusion, with data available on a website called ClinicalTrials.gov. A recent study looked at how often researchers are complying. William Nelson, director of …

Federal regulations require that clinical trial results are posted, but how many are? Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more »

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Black women often experience breast cancers that are more advanced at the time of diagnosis, and may be more difficult to treat. A recent study looked for the presence of different genes among Black and white women with breast cancer …

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Long Covid is being used to describe continued fatigue, pain, and impaired cognition following Covid-19 infection. Peter Rowe, a ME/CFS expert at Johns Hopkins, says these two conditions may be one and the same, and there are at least two …

Will long Covid respond to strategies used for ME/CFS? Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more »

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If you’ve had Covid-19 and are still struggling with things like fatigue and pain months later, the virus may have triggered ME/CFS, the new term for chronic fatigue syndrome. Peter Rowe, a ME/CFS expert at Johns Hopkins, says the good …

Knowing that ME/CFS may be the real issue in so-called ‘long Covid’ is key to treatment, Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more »