
Brianna Abbott
Health Reporter at The Wall Street Journal
health reporter at @WSJ covering the treatment and prevention of disease, with a focus on cancer #SHERP36 PC’17
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2 weeks ago |
geneticliteracyproject.org | Brianna Abbott
GLP Policy & Performance Review, 2024 The GLP is committed to full transparency. Download the report.
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2 weeks ago |
wsj.com | Brianna Abbott
People with polycythemia vera often need regular blood draws to keep the disease in checkFor patients with a rare type of blood cancer, treatment might finally be coming out of the Dark Ages. People with the chronic condition polycythemia vera make too many red blood cells, thickening their blood and increasing the risk for clots, heart attacks or strokes. The main treatment consists of regular blood draws—essentially bloodletting—to keep the disease in check.
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3 weeks ago |
wsj.com | Brianna Abbott
When facing down a cancer diagnosis, patients often ask: What can I do to help my own odds? The answer, data increasingly shows, is to go back to the basics: exercise and a good diet. Copyright ©2025 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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1 month ago |
wsj.com | Brianna Abbott
Guidelines have gone back and forth over the years on whether men should be screened at allFormer President Joe Biden’s diagnosis of an aggressive, stage-4 prostate cancer has reignited a long-simmering medical debate: When should men get screened for prostate cancer? For decades, doctors have wrestled with how often to screen men for the disease and when to start and stop.
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1 month ago |
lopinion.fr | Brianna Abbott |Josh Ulick
Le secrétaire à la Santé et aux Services sociaux, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a placé la lutte contre les maladies chroniques au cœur de son programme, alors qu’il s’apprête à réformer le département de la santé et à « redonner la santé à l’Amérique ».
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RT @l_e_whyte: New from me and @Brabbott42 : Joe Biden has aggressive, late-stage prostate cancer. But he could still live for many years…

RT @aberkenblit: Thank you to @Brabbott42 from the @WSJ for highlighting the latest advancements in KRAS-targeted therapies for #pancreatic…

RT @NidhiSubs: Proteins are the workhorses of daily biology but their shapes, which determine their jobs, have been notoriously hard to pin…