(2024-10-14). For People With Lung Cancer, Exercise Can Be Gruelling. It's Also Among The Most Important Things #People #Lung #Cancer, #Exercise #Gruelling. #It's #Also #Most #Important #Things #Vaccines #Pills #Doctor #Hospital #Pandemic. menafn.com (MENAFN – The Conversation) | When you think of lung cancer treatment, what comes to mind chemotherapy, radiation, surgery? While these can be crucial, there's another powerful tool that's often …
(2024-10-14). Mayo Clinic Minute: Advanced imaging provides hope by seeing the previously unseen. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Mayo Clinic remains a leader in healthcare innovation, applying advanced technologies like the 7-Tesla MRI to help improve patient care. This imaging system uses a stronger magnetic field to produce more detailed images of the body's interior. Dr. Justin Cramer, a Mayo Clinic neuroradiologist, explains how detailed brain scans help Mayo Clinic care teams diagnose and treat patients with epilepsy and other neurologic diseases. Learn more about how Mayo Clinic experts are utilizing these tools…
(2024-10-14). Uterine cancer rates are increasing: What can you do to protect yourself? newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org Getty Images Uterine cancer is the most common type of gynecologic cancer. It's estimated that about 67,880 new cases will be diagnosed in 2024. Approximately 13,250 people will die from this disease in the U.S. in 2024, according to the National Cancer Institute. Researchers recently reported that while death rates for the most common type of uterine cancer — endometrioid cancer — remained stable, deaths from rare and aggressive types of uterine cancer increased significantly each year…
(2024-10-14). Radiopharmaceutical therapy shows favorable results for people with tough-to-treat meningioma brain tumors, Mayo Clinic study finds. newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org The following press release was distributed by the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) Phase 2 clinical trial finds 177Lu-Dotatate may extend progression-free survival for patients with no other options to manage recurrent disease WASHINGTON — A radiopharmaceutical therapy that has successfully extended progression-free survival for patients with neuroendocrine tumors shows early signs for delivering similar benefits to patients with difficult-to-treat meningioma, a type of brain tumor. The nonrandomized phase 2 study's findings were presented…
(2024-10-14). No need to rush with 'childless tax' — Kremlin. rt.com 
The proposed measure has been widely debated by Russian MPs amid efforts to boost the birth rate in the country | A tax on childlessness is unlikely to solve Russia's demographic problems, according to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov. The country has been plagued by a declining birth rate for years, and in 2023, only 1.264 million children were born in Russia, the lowest since 1999, according to Rosstat. | The proposed tax entered the spotlight earlier this month, after Lieutenant General Andrey Gurulev, a member of the State Duma Defense Committee, suggested reviving the Soviet-era policy of taxing people who…
(2024-10-14). Israeli army attacks 200 more Hezbollah targets in Lebanon in past day. tass.com Meanwhile, ground units continue "limited, localized, targeted raids" in southern Lebanon…
(2024-10-14). The 'Blue Economy' Myth: We Have to Stop Thinking the Ocean Can Be Run Like a Business. counterpunch.org 
Many maritime crimes negatively impact oceanic health, such as illegal fishing or harvesting, ocean dumping, and polluting. In addition to overfishing, where necessary species are removed from the food chain, and accelerating biodiversity loss, unsustainable industrial development along coastlines has also contributed to ocean pollution. "All of these threats erode the capacity of the ocean to provide nutritious food, jobs, medicines, and pharmaceuticals as well as regulate the climate," stated a 2020 article in the journal Nature. "Women, poor people, Indigenous communities, and young people are most affected."
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KLM's CEO urged the bloc to address the "unfair" competition caused by its sanctions against Moscow | The EU should establish financial measures to curb competition from Chinese airlines that can freely cross Russian airspace, according to Royal Dutch Airlines (KLM) CEO Marjan Rintel. | Western countries closed their airspace to Russian airlines as part of sanctions imposed after the outbreak of the Ukraine conflict in 2022. In response, Moscow banned aircraft from 'unfriendly nations', forcing EU planes to reroute, resulting in higher fuel consumption and increased costs. | "Russia's airspace is closed to Eur…
After a year of near-constant Israeli military raids on their homes and private spaces, women are some of the most affected among the Palestinian residents of Nur Shams refugee camp in Tulkarem.
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Israel invaded the southern part of the neighboring country earlier this week to fight pro-Palestinian militants | The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) claims it has killed 440 Hezbollah members since the start of the ground operation in Lebanon earlier this month. | On Tuesday, the IDF announced "limited ground raids" into southern Lebanon, following a weeks-long bombing campaign that killed more than a dozen high-ranking Hezbollah members, including the pro-Palestinian group's longstanding leader, Hassan Nasrallah. | "We are pushing Hezbollah north," the IDF spokesman, Brigadier General Daniel Hagri, said in a st…
Nakasongola has carried over 40% of Mpox burden Kampala, Uganda | FLAVIA NASSAKA — URN | The number of confirmed Mpox cases in Uganda is now 41, doubling from 22 just two weeks ago. The Ministry of Health (MOH) revealed on Wednesday that the majority of these cases have been recorded in the districts of Nakasongola, …
Canada's carbon emissions are down for the first time since the pandemic, according to a 2023 estimate from publicly funded think tank the Canadian Climate Institute. The drop of 0.8 percent between 2022 and 2023 brings the total reduction since the baseline year of 2005 to eight percent — a long way from the 2030 goal of 40 percent, a …
Boris Johnson says he had defense officials devise a plan to steal AstraZeneca vaccines from a Dutch plant during the Covid-19 pandemic | Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said he gathered defense officials to plan a clandestine operation in the Netherlands to steal Covid-19 vaccines amid a UK-EU dispute in 2021. | The factory was holding approximately 5 million Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine doses manufactured by subcontractors at the Dutch Halix plant. The EU was refusing to send them to the UK, citing the needs of its citizens. | British defense officials convened in Downing Street to outline a potenti…
Hundreds of families crammed into vehicles and fled Fresh strikes struck Beirut's southern suburbs early Saturday after huge raids hours before that the Israeli army said it targeted Hezbollah's "central headquarters". | Bottlenecks formed in the middle of the night on normally…
Violent explosions rocked the Haret Hreik neighbourhood in the Dahiyeh southern suburb of Ten loud explosions were heard in a wave of air raids that hit an area close to the road leading to Lebanon's only international airport in Beirut, with local media reporting that a large crater was seen on the site of the attack and that several buildings were flattened. | Footage aired on local media showed a massive column of smoke rising from the s…
An The family was among at least 25 people killed so far on Friday, as Israeli strikes hit several villages and towns in Lebanon's south including in Nabatiyeh, Tyre, Marjeyoun and Jezzine. | Around noon, air raids targeted towns in the Zahleh district in the northeastern Bekaa. | The attacks c…
How Covid Increased Housing Rage Covid may have reduced road rage and cut gas and transportation bills but it has increased housing rage. Many in apartment or condo buildings have had their fill of the following irritants after more than a year of seclusion (not to mention their fill of family or roommates). Here are …
The focus of On Monday, the Israeli army conducted a series of massacres against many southern and eastern areas in Lebanon, the most violent attacks since the outbreak of confrontations on 8 October and the larg…
The Israeli military continued striking south Lebanon and the country's eastern Beqaa region overnight, a day after it launched a massive wave of air raids on Lebanon's deadliest day in decades. It also struck the southern suburbs of Beirut for a fifth time this year. | At least 558 people have been killed and over 1,800 wounded in the two days of attacks, including children. | On Tuesday, an Israeli airstrike hit the southern Beirut suburb of Ghobeiry. Two Lebanese security sources have said the raid killed senior Hezbollah commander Ibrahim Qubaisi, who led the group's rockets division. | Hezbollah fired doz…