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The right selection of foods during and after treatment will meet your body’s needs for protein, vitamins, and other nutrients, and it can make a major difference in your quality of life as well. Uncomfortable symptoms such as gas, bloating, and constipation are common in women with ovarian cancer, but those symptoms can be minimized with the right diet and plenty of fluids. The foods and supplements you should try to incorporate in your diet will depend on where you are in your treatment journey for ovarian cancer, says Anna Taylor, RD, a registered dietitian with Cleveland Clinic’s Center for Human Nutrition....

Research has shown that pain is a major symptom of IBS, which could be due to the connection between the gut and the brain. That may explain why people with IBS respond well to placebos as a pain treatment — the fake pills can have a psychological effect and help patients feel less pain. Typically, however, placebos are given to people who believe they are receiving real medicine. “Knowing that the placebo effect is so important, particularly in patients with IBS, we decided to test the hypothesis of what happens if we actually tell families [and children] that they are getting a placebo,” says Samuel Nurko, MD, director of the Center for Motility and Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders at Boston Children’s Hospital....

September has been designated Ovarian Cancer Awareness month, and is filled with events dedicated to educating people about the ovarian cancer and its symptoms. RELATED: Ovarian Cancer: Myths vs. Facts World Ovarian Cancer Day Is May 8 World Ovarian Cancer Day serves to spread awareness about the deadliness of ovarian cancer around the globe. In 2020, nearly 300,000 new diagnoses and over 184,000 deaths worldwide were attributed to ovarian cancer....

I have two suggestions, one for when you wake up after a really frightening dream, and another for longer-term prevention of panic attacks in this situation. When you wake up after one of these bad dreams, immediately try to remind yourself where you are in space and time. When we feel anxiety or fear, parts of the brain (especially one called the amygdala) are activated. When this happens, it’s easier to lose touch with your current time and space....

Pericarditis may be responsible for up to 5 percent of all non-heart attack chest pain cases in accident and emergency departments, according to a report in the journal The Lancet. Pericarditis is usually acute, developing suddenly and lasting only up to a few months. But it can also be chronic and last for years. Treatment of pericarditis differs depending on whether it’s acute or chronic, how severe the condition is, and what caused it....

“A pescatarian diet is one that prioritizes fish and seafood as the primary protein source,” says the Kansas City–based registered dietitian Cara Harbstreet, the author of The Pescatarian Cookbook: The Essential Kitchen Companion. If you’re following this diet, you may also choose to include eggs and dairy in your meals and snacks. This is not an all-fish diet. Harbstreet says pescatarians typically have two or more seafood meals per week....

The FDA is planning to review the submission on February 15. “Having a safe and effective vaccine available for children in this age group is a priority for the agency and we’re committed to a timely review of the data, which the agency asked Pfizer to submit in light of the recent omicron surge,” said acting FDA Commissioner Janet Woodcock, MD, in a statement. “Furthermore, children are not small adults....

Building healthy eating patterns can be challenging, but a new analysis suggests a good starting point. The review, published in July 2019 in JAMA Internal Medicine, found that following a plant-based diet, even if you don’t lose weight, may lower your risk for type 2 diabetes. “We found that individuals who ate largely plant-based diets, including vegan or vegetarian diets and other diets with an emphasis of plant foods, had a lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes,” says the senior study author, Qi Sun, MD, an associate professor in the department of nutrition at Harvard T....

Chances are, that rash was caused by brushing against a common plant, such as poison ivy. But there are many other plants that can cause contact dermatitis — skin inflammation cause by an irritant or a substance that produces an allergic reaction — or shorter-lived burning or itching. Learn what these irritating plants look like and where you might encounter them so you can avoid them on your next outdoor adventure....

New Vaccination Requirements His plan requires that all employers with 100 or more workers must now ensure that their workers are vaccinated or tested weekly. All federal worker and millions of contractors that do business with the federal government must also be inoculated against the coronavirus. The more than 17 million healthcare workers at Medicare- and Medicaid-participating hospitals and other healthcare settings will also need to get their shots. Furthermore, Biden called on large entertainment venues to require vaccination proof or testing for entry, and for employers to provide paid time off for vaccination....

Says Sabrina, “I wanted to [show] those living with psoriasis that it’s possible to have a happy, healthy, and stylish life while you’re managing a chronic disease like psoriasis.” “I wanted to be that resource that I wish I had,” Sabrina says. “Just somebody like myself living with a disease like this, who can tell you really what it’s like. Not just the good things, but the bad things as well…and [who can provide] a source of positivity and inspiration....

Purines are found in many foods, and at different levels. They are metabolized (broken down) into uric acid, a waste product that is usually excreted with urine. If there is too much uric acid in the blood, people can develop a condition called hyperuricemia. Hyperuricemia is the precursor to gout, which is a rheumatic disease where excess uric acid develops into small, needle-like crystals in the soft tissues and joints....

One key difference: “The normal ups and downs and moods that all people tend to experience are often associated with something going on in their life — they’re often a reaction,” explains Jeffrey Borenstein, MD, the president and CEO of the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation in New York City. Plus, he adds, “They aren’t often as severe as they might be in bipolar disorder.” Holly A. Swartz, MD, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh and editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Psychotherapy, likens it to the difference between the weather and climate....

“Localized TGCT is usually around the joint space on smaller joints like the fingers and toes,” says Arun Singh, MD, an assistant professor of hematology/oncology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA in Los Angeles. “Diffuse TGCT is usually around larger joints, like the knee or hip. It’s more like a blob, as opposed to a tumor that’s circular." TGCT can cause joint stiffness and pain and impact mobility, and it will need to be treated, according to the National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD)....

Sjögren’s Syndrome Symptoms Like rheumatoid arthritis, Sjögren’s syndrome is an autoimmune disorder: a condition that develops when your body is attacked by its own immune system. Complicating your care, Sjögren’s syndrome offers up its own list of symptoms, including a painful burning or gritty feeling in the eyes that can leave you prone to eye infections. You may also have a dry sensation in your mouth that increases the chances of dental decay or gum inflammation....

Her mental health woes didn’t end there. In 2018 she had an episode of psychosis, a condition in which someone loses contact with reality, she’s now revealed in her new Apple TV+ documentary, Selena Gomez: My Mind and Me. The documentary is based on video taken over six years and takes a close, often raw, look at high and low moments for Gomez, now 30, during that time. Gomez says her key goal in making the documentary was to make it more common for people to talk about mental health struggles....

“Kids are having longer pathways through puberty,” said Andrea Zaenglein, MD, a professor of dermatology and pediatrics at the Penn State/Hershey Medical Center and co-author of the guidelines. “It used to be predictable when kids got acne, but now it tends to wax and wane because their hormones still aren’t set.” According to the guidelines, which were published in the May issue of Pediatrics, 12 years of age is no longer seen as the lower end of the age range for developing acne....

Fairly went through a double mastectomy, six rounds of aggressive chemotherapy, and six weeks of radiation treatment — and was, briefly, free of disease. But Fairley says her cancer came back a year after her initial diagnosis, and her doctor said that she had only about two more years to live. “My doctor only had two cases of triple negative — both women died in nine months,” says Fairley. “I said, ‘Well, I can’t really die right now, because I have a daughter in college....

Higher consumption of pro-inflammatory compounds found in cooked meats, called advanced glycation end-products (AGEs), was linked to higher rates of wheezing in a national sample of more than 4,000 children, according to the study, which was published December 2020 in the journal Thorax. Wheezing is a common asthma symptom in children and adults. The study found that increased levels of AGEs were tied to more incidents of kids reporting wheezing that disrupted their sleep, limited their exercise, or even led to an emergency room visit....

The study is the longest follow-up of a type of immunotherapy called checkpoint inhibitors in melanoma, and marks a climactic moment in a dramatic success story that has unfolded over the past five years. The first checkpoint inhibitor for advanced melanoma — Yervoy (ipilimumab) was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Aministration (FDA) in 2011. Several checkpoint inhibitors are on the market. Checkpoint inhibitors block a specific protein on cancer cells, allowing the immune system’s disease-fighting T cells to see and kill cancer....