Month: May 2021

Screening and the HPV vaccine have led to drops in cervical cancers over the last two decades in the U.S., a new study finds, but the gains are offset by a rise in other tumors caused by the virus. Oral sex is helping fuel more cases of mouth and throat cancers in men. For older women, anal cancer and a rare type of rectal cancer caused by HPV may be more common than cervical cancers by 2025. "A common misperception is the HPV vaccine has solved the problem of HPV-associated cancers. Unfortunately, that couldn’t be further from the truth," said Dr. Maura Gillison of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, who was not involved in the study. SHOULD YOU WEAR SUNSCREEN WHEN YOU'RE WORKING FROM HOME? Results were released Wednesday by the American Society of Clinical Oncology a...

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<!-- --> India has reported more than 25 million Covid cases, with half occurring in the past two months alone. Rare, life-threatening Covid-19 complications appear to be escalating in India, creating a fresh wave of critical medical challenges in a country that has already seen short supplies of oxygen and other basic needs. Pharmacists are warning of a shortage of a crucial drug to treat an invasive fungal infection preying on patients with weakened immune systems. An uptick in cases across India of a dangerous inflammatory syndrome in children -- also seen in the U.S. and Europe at the height of their outbreaks -- is a harbinger of a potentially deadly spate of the pediatric illness in the coming weeks. Once considered a rare "opportunistic" fungal infection in Covid-19 patie...

For parts of the US, it will be an uphill battle to get more shots into arms. But experts say that challenge is critical -- and officials need to deploy all kinds of strategies to help boost vaccinations. It's our best shot to overcome the pandemic. "There's a small percentage of people who just really, really don't want (the vaccine). We're going to have to work on that, but to me that's a later issue," Dr. Ashish Jha, dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, told CNN on Wednesday. "There are a lot of people who have questions, so part of it is just helping address questions people have." For others, barriers in getting the vaccine are often not being able to afford to take time from work, he added, so it's important to bring workplaces into the conversation of helping peop...