Black History Month: Sickle cell disease research underway at Yale
News 8 is once again honoring Black history by looking at health care and the racial disparities many report facing.
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Hookah, Cigarillos May Be Raising Lung Cancer Rates for Fulton’s Black Men
Panelists at the Fulton County Board of Health’s “State of Healthcare for African Americans” town hall said on Monday that a higher rate of lung cancer exists among Black men in the region, despite ...
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Discovery of gene silencer offers hope for autosomal dominant leukodystrophy
A team led by University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health geneticists has shown, for the first time, that a gene "silencer" that resides in junk DNA is directly sparing people from a devastating ...
Texas Parks and Wildlife warns against spread of bird flu after disease found in black vultures
Texas Parks and Wildlife has detected Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI), or bird flu, across Texas and is urging ...
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Patient in her 70s with COPD and asthma improving significantly since using monoclonal antibody dupilumab
Lyn Iemma, aged 75 years at the time of writing, would not describe her life as dramatic. Born and raised in Perth, WA, Australia, this thriving but relaxed city is the place she has always called ...
Why is there an increase in lung cancer among women who have never smoked?
Rising air pollution, changes in hormone levels, immune system imbalances and longer life expectancy are increasing the risk ...
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AI trained to diagnose lung diseases
The AI model works by examining each video frame to find important features of the lungs and assesses the order of the video ...