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Screening with a multimodal strategy

Multimodal Strategy Improves Ovarian Cancer Detection

Screening using risk of ovarian cancer algorithm linked to increased number of screen-detected iEOCs
Adults who were born to older fathers may be at increased risk for blood and immune system cancers such as leukemia and lymphoma

Increased Risk of Cancer Seen for Offspring of Older Fathers

Higher risk for blood and immune system cancers
A protein known to accumulate in Parkinson's disease and other degenerative brain disorders

Protein Seen in Parkinson’s May Activate Immune System

Candesartan and an experimental drug both reduce the immune response
When the seasons change

Some Gene Activity Differs Depending on Season

Altered activity could explain why some diseases are worse in some months than others
Males benefit indirectly when girls are immunized against human papillomavirus

HPV Vaccination of Females Has Some Indirect Benefit for Males

Strongest effect on penile cancer; smallest effect on anal cancer
Women diagnosed with ovarian cancer are now much more likely to survive the disease than they were several decades ago

Survival Improving for Women With Ovarian Cancer

Women diagnosed today 50 percent less likely to die than they were in the 1970s
A new Health Care Index shows increases in consumer costs

New Health Care Index Reports Increases in Consumer Costs

Increase in coverage by public insurance plans, but increasing number of consumers have deductibles
The traits of a financially prepared female physician include having a retirement portfolio that is on track or ahead of schedule for age and career stage

AMA: Six Traits of Financially Prepared Female Physicians

Traits include having retirement portfolio on track or ahead of schedule, having emergency fund
Post-traumatic stress disorder seems to be associated with premature aging

PTSD Associated With Premature Senescence

Evidence of reduced leukocyte telomere length, increased pro-inflammatory markers
Use of a next-generation sequencing panel including genes associated with highly penetrant colorectal cancer and polyposis (CRCP) syndromes is cost-effective for CRCP diagnosis

Next-Generation Sequencing Panel Cost-Effective for CRC

Panel including genes linked to highly penetrant CRC and polyposis syndromes seems cost-effective