Category: Health Newsfeed
January 26, 2017 – Expanding Meals on Wheels
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Anchor lead: Can Meals on Wheels improve health outcomes? Elizabeth Tracey reports Meals on Wheels is a national organization that brings two meals a day to home bound people, mostly seniors. Now Dan Hale, assistant professor of geriatrics at Johns …
January 25, 2017 – Mouth Hygiene and RA
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Anchor lead: How can bacteria in the mouth and rheumatoid arthritis be related? Elizabeth Tracey reports Looking at someone’s genes may one day help determine whether they are at risk to develop rheumatoid arthritis, research by Felipe Andrade and colleagues …
January 24, 2017 – RA and Gum Disease
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Anchor lead: Bacteria in the mouth may contribute to the development of rheumatoid arthritis, Elizabeth Tracey reports Bacteria that reside in your mouth, known as oral flora, have been known for some time to be involved in various diseases and …
January 23, 2017 – CMV Susceptibility
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Anchor lead: How do genes and proteins influence whether someone gets a common viral infection? Elizabeth Tracey reports Nod1 is the name of a protein that when altered, may increase susceptibility to infection with cytomegalovirus, abbreviated CMV. That’s according to …
January 13, 2017 – Osimertinib
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Anchor lead: A new treatment offers hope for people with non-small cell lung cancer, Elizabeth Tracey reports A new type of therapy for people with non-small lung cancer, which has historically been very hard to treat, has shown quite promising …
January 12, 2017 – Escaping Treatment
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Anchor lead: Some tumors evade the best defenses, Elizabeth Tracey reports Even as cancer treatments are becoming more targeted and specific, some tumors are demonstrating their ability to evade them, a recent case report in the New England Journal of …