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Add-On Cemiplimab Shows Promise as First-Line Treatment for Penile Cancer

(MedPage Today) -- SAN FRANCISCO -- A combination of cemiplimab (Libtayo) and standard-of-care chemotherapy appeared to be effective in patients with locally advanced or metastatic penile cancer, a

Drawing strength from the notion of sisu | Letters

The Finnish concept of collective resilience in adversity also exists in Estonia, writes Ilvi Jõe-Cannon.

Ebola Virus Strikes Again

(MedPage Today) -- On the first day of President Trump's second term, he signed an executive order withdrawing the U.S. from the World Health Organization (WHO).

James thought he was just stressed – then the panic attacks started | Diane Young

Stress can be the body’s way of asking us to stop and listen.

The unspoken agony of vaginal dryness: ‘I had to give up four jobs in four years’

Recently, there has been much more discussion of menopause.

Not lighthearted craziness, or a comic disorder of the mind: what it’s like living with OCD

In this candid extract from her new memoir, actor Tuppence Middleton describes her lifelong battle with obsessive-compulsive disorder, and asks for those with the condition to be treated with more sym

In an NHS ward I saw how Britain relies on immigrants. Yet still we tell them they’re not wanted | John Harris

My dad’s journey through the health and social care systems proves what politicians secretly know: we’ll be lost if they succeed in ‘sending them home’One bitter absurdity now sits at the hear

Louisiana senator and RFK Jr supporter balks at state’s anti-vaccine move

Republican Bill Cassidy calls state surgeon general’s halt to promotion of mass vaccination a disservice to parentsBill Cassidy, the Republican US senator, has said his home state of Louisiana’s r

‘It is going to be terrible’: a senior in Louisiana’s ‘Cancer Alley’ prepares for Trump’s dismantling of hard-won environmental progress

Robert Taylor recently lost his wife to a long-term illness he linked to chemicals produced by a nearby factory, and now the Trump administration is preparing to scrap pollution reforms in the areaIt

STAT+: Trump administration layoffs set to hit NIH are ‘devastating,’ former director Monica Bertagnolli says

Sweeping layoffs are set to hit federal health and science agencies, including at the NIH, and former director Monica Bertagnolli called the situation at the NIH “devastating.

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