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According to new research from investigators with the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and its Bloomberg-Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, a microbe found in the colon and commonly associated with the development of colitis and colon cancer may also play a role in the development of some breast cancers.

This drug was first approved in the US in the 1970s for anesthesia and pain relief, and last year, the FDA approved it for patients with major depression that are treatment resistant. If you said ketamine, you’re correct, and because more than 30% of patients are resistant to SSRIs, finding an effective treatment for major depressive disorder is challenging. Could this old drug be the answer?

COVID-19 has led to severe mental repercussions, which is made worse when considering what types of challenges people were having before the pandemic even hit. Considering this, it’s a good time to review the drug-drug interactions (DDIs) psychotropic drugs can have with each other, not to mention other drugs for the most common conditions. Here are 20 such interactions for your review. 

The International Duration of Adjuvant Chemotherapy (IDEA) collaboration investigated whether 3-month adjuvant chemotherapy treatment can be given for colon cancer without compromising efficacy, as six-month adjuvant chemotherapy with a fluoropyrimidine and oxaliplatin doublet is an option for high-risk stage II colon cancer. Here are the results.

The Healthy Eating Index (HEI) is a diagnostic indicator (0-100) of how well Americans conform to dietary advice, and the latest US numbers in 2015 were low: 59. Older Americans were better than young, but the fact remains we could all do better with the choices we’re making in our daily intake. Here are five foods that rival medicine when it comes to their health benefits.

A neurologist shares his experience receiving the first dose of the vaccine and what he felt during those 15 minutes of observation time. He had some reservations about the safety of the new vaccine, so was he about to become a statistic in the next FDA safety bulletin? Read on to discover the side effect — a feeling he hadn’t experienced in quite some time.