Akshay Syal
Med Fellow at NBC News
instructor of medicine @dgsomucla | @nbcnews health unit
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5 days ago |
nbcnews.com | Akshay Syal
The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved the first at-home test to screen for cervical cancer, Teal Health, which makes the test kit, said. Currently, cervical cancer screening is done in a doctor’s office during a pelvic exam, a process some women find uncomfortable and even painful. Some patients don’t get screened for cervical cancer because they don’t want a pelvic exam, said Dr. Emeline Aviki, a gynecologic-oncologist at NYU Langone Health.
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1 week ago |
nbcnews.com | Berkeley Lovelace Jr. |Erika Edwards |Akshay Syal
Autism experts and advocates expressed alarm after the Department of Health and Human Services said Wednesday it intends to create a database of enrolled Medicare and Medicaid patients to support a study aimed at identifying the “root causes” of autism. Under the leadership of HHS Secretary Robert F.
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1 month ago |
nbcnews.com | Megan Lebowitz |Akshay Syal
WASHINGTON — White House physician Sean Barbabella released a memo detailing the results of President Donald Trump's annual physical on Friday, writing that the president is in "excellent health."Trump exhibits "robust cardiac, pulmonary, neurological, and general physical function," Barbabella wrote.
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1 month ago |
nbcnews.com | Akshay Syal
Dr. Jesse Mills regularly sees men who want to improve something about their body. Mills, the director of the Men’s Clinic at UCLA Health, usually offers advice like diet, exercise — maybe physical therapy to help recover from an injury. In recent months, however, some patients have come to him with a solution already in mind: peptide therapy. “Week by week more people are asking about peptides,” Mills said. Peptide therapy has become a mainstay online and in fitness communities.
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1 month ago |
nbcnews.com | Kaitlin Sullivan |Akshay Syal |Patrick Martin
Gavin Nielsen was 2 years old when he was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive brain cancer. The smiley toddler had diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, or DIPG, a cancer that occurs in the part of the brain stem that controls vital functions including breathing, blood pressure and heart rate. Very few treatment options exist and the prognosis for children diagnosed with the disease is, on average, less than one year.
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