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When life should have been ripe with possibilities, Mandy Murry instead faced a devastating diagnosis. Murry was diagnosed with cervical cancer when she was 22. She had her cervix and uterus removed to treat it. Her doctor believes the cancer was caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV). “I was expected to have that ‘happily ever […]

Affiliates are important to have if you own a business (brick-and-mortar or online). Nowadays, in the online realm, you and your business will need all the publicity that you can get. That’s where affiliates come in! With affiliates, you’ll be able to spread the word further about your product or service. One of the best […]

Psilocybin Eases Depression A dose of psilocybin with psychotherapy eases symptoms of treatment-resistant depression (TRD) in the short-term, new research shows. Some 29% of patients with TRD who received a single 25-mg dose of synthetic psilocybin experienced a significant reduction in depressive symptoms for at least 3 weeks compared with those in a control group […]

Scientists at the UNC School of Medicine and UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, in collaboration with a team from Queen Mary University of London, have illuminated the molecular events underlying an inherited movement and neurodegenerative disorder known as ARSACS – Autosomal recessive spastic ataxia of Charlevoix-Saguenay , named for two Quebec valleys where the first […]

“Email marketing is DEAD!”“AI is taking over the inbox!”“Why hire a copywriter when I can just use email templates?!”“Who needs an email list when I have a large social following?” Um….. stop right there and listen up, because I’m going to let you in on a little secret… THREE little secrets to be exact. Lately, […]

Patients With Cancer Still Get Therapy at End of Life Terminal patients with cancer continue to get systemic therapy in the last weeks of life, despite concerns about such care’s cost and utility, new research shows. The rate of systemic anticancer therapy within 30 days of death across all cancer types remained the same — […]

In a recent study posted to medRxiv* preprint server, researchers characterized trends of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) RNA levels in wastewater. Study: Identifying trends in SARS-CoV-2 RNA in wastewater to infer changing COVID-19 incidence: Effect of sampling frequency. Image Credit: DedMityay/Shutterstock Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) relies on infectious disease marker levels in the […]

Some of the things you (or your clients) AREN’T doing … are so scary. Like really scary. 1. You NOT being on TikTok is scary. TikTok now has over a BILLION monthly active users. Ages 20-29 makeup 29.5%, ages 30-39 makeup 16.4%, ages 40-49 makeup 13.9%, and ages 50+ makeup 7.1%. Don’t tell us your […]

Y-mAbs Therapeutics has suffered a setback in its efforts to win US approval for I-omburtamab to treat a rare pediatric cancer. On October 28, a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel found a lack of evidence to support the drug’s approval for pediatric neuroblastoma in patients with central nervous system (CNS)/leptomeningeal (LM) metastases. After […]

In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* server, researchers in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom formulated recommendations for future pandemics using lessons learned from the testing programs implemented in the United Kingdom (UK) during the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Study: A multistage mixed-methods evaluation of the UKHSA testing response during the […]