@LizHighleymanTwo studies showed that just a 10-minute exercise session led to increased numbers & proportions of CD8 killer T-cells and natural killer cells, the most important immune cells fighting against cancer.
https://www.cancerhealth.com/article/even-brief-exercise-boosts-cancerfighting-immune-cells
Easy & affordable access to contraception is a great way to reduce the need for abortion.
Today, President Biden will issue an Executive Order on Strengthening Access to Affordable, High-Quality Contraception and Family Planning Services. This will be the third Executive Order on reproductive health care access that the President has signed since the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, and the first focused specifically on protecting…
At a time when trans health care is under attack, trans men with a cervix need cervical cancer screening & some trans women need prostate cancer screening.
(This is an example where I needed to use "cisgender" to distinguish between trans & non-trans people -- groups with have different health care needs.)
https://www.cancerhealth.com/article/transgender-people-need-cancer-screening-timely-care
My latest for Bay Area Reporter. #Mpox (#monkeypox) is at a low ebb in San Francisco and nationwide, but health officials caution that it hasn't gone away, urging gay and bi men, trans people, and those in their sexual networks to get both doses of the vaccine.
Marc Franke, the Düsseldorf Patient, was the second or third person cured of #HIV after the late Timothy Ray Brown (the Berlin Patient) -- depending on how you count -- but he and his doctors wanted to be 100% sure before declaring success. My latest for POZ.
"I’d like to figure out the disease before treating anything," says Yale researcher Akiko Iwasaki. "But at this point, I don’t think we have that kind of time or luxury. I think we have to start doing clinical trials & learning who benefits and how to improve these therapies."
"You need a doctor who’s on your team and who you feel like a partner with on this journey—not someone who thinks they know everything already," advises Hannah Davis of the Patient Led Research Collaborative."
My latest for Slate on the perils & promise of unproven therapies for #longCOVID. We don't yet understand what causes it, but patient advocates & some researchers say we should move forward anyway -- learning what works could shed light on the mechanism(s).
With the NIH's RECOVER program running out of money without enrolling any patients in treatment trials, academic researchers, small companies, nonprofits & patients themselves have stepped into the breach.
https://slate.com/technology/2023/05/long-covid-treatments-where-research-recover.html
To think of the grief we could have been spared if public health had been clear about this early on...
"From a broad public-health standpoint, at the population level, masks work at the margins — maybe 10 percent. But for an individual who religiously wears a mask, a well-fitted KN95 or N95, it’s not at the margin. It really does work."
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/04/24/magazine/dr-fauci-pandemic.html
Today is reportedly National Beagle Day, in recognition of the largest-ever single breed dog walk, with more than 1,000 beagles (see video in link below).🙂
https://www.bauwowworld.com/blog/beaglelandia-official-world-record-holder
