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Traditional approaches to prostate cancer screening involve blood tests, MRI, and biopsies. However, in addition to being uncomfortable, some of these procedures result in overdiagnosis of low-grade cancers.

Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) programs are tasked with implementing the appropriate isolation of patients with suspected or confirmed communicable diseases to reduce the risk of health care-associated infections to patients and mitigate occupational risks to health care personnel.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, health worker Maria Tereza Malheiros Sapienza’s curiosity was aroused by her immunity to SARS-CoV-2: her husband, Marcelo Sapienza, a physician, was infected twice (in April 2020 and January 2022), but she remained perfectly well and asymptomatic even though she was in direct contact with him prior to both infections.

Family-based behavioral treatment (FBT) is a clinically-proven approach to treating children with obesity in which a health care professional works with the family to help children lose weight by promoting physical activity, encouraging healthy eating habits, and teaching age-appropriate behavioral skills.

In recent weeks, reports have been circulating about severe reactions in people who’ve taken over-the-counter vitamin B6 supplements.

First Nations patients in regional Queensland have seen significant improvement in their management of type 2 diabetes under a new program backed by James Cook University researchers, leading to calls to expand it state-wide.

IN-PEACE, which provides palliative care integrated with state-of-the-art dementia care to patients with dementia and their caregivers, cut in half the number of emergency department visits and hospitalizations of study participants. African American individuals and those with lower incomes benefited the most in reduction of use of these medical facilities.

The right to request a short working week, with four longer “shifts” and three days off is being proposed as part of new flexible working legislation in the UK. Also known as working “compressed hours,” this schedule can sound attractive, with reports claiming improved efficiency and productivity. And, of course, no pay cut for workers.

It all begins innocently—a late-night peek at your favorite social media site before bed. You catch a headline that grabs your attention with “breaking news” you can’t afford to miss.

“What is a tumor?” This is the fundamental question to answer if we want to treat cancer effectively. Our vision of cancer and tumors has been evolving with time, from the simplistic bunch of all-similar malignant cells to a more sophisticated, heterogeneous and hierarchical cellular structure, composed of many different cell types. Recently, a new paradigm has emerged: the hallmarks of cancer.