Working out may enhance the immune system’s ability to target and eradicate cancer cells, a study in mice suggests.
How Exercise Might Affect Immunity to Lower Cancer Risk
Working out may enhance the immune system’s ability to target and eradicate cancer cells, a study in mice suggests.
Persistence and Evolution of SARS-CoV-2 in an Immunocompromised Host
To the Editor: A 45-year-old man with severe antiphospholipid syndrome complicated by diffuse alveolar hemorrhage, who was receiving anticoagulation therapy,…
SARS-CoV-2 in the U.S. Military — Lessons for Civil Society
Barr and Podolsky recently commented in the Journal on the long-term influence that military medicine has historically had on medical…
An Outbreak of Covid-19 on an Aircraft Carrier
The U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt was conducting operations in the western Pacific Ocean when an outbreak of infection with severe acute…
The Inequity of Isolation
“Cradle to grave” — that is the promise and privilege of family medicine: the opportunity to care for individuals and…
Trying to “Protect the NHS” in the United Kingdom
By July 1, 2020, the first wave of Covid-19 in Europe had ebbed, with death rates down to less than…
Urinary and faecal incontinence in older adults
Urinary incontinence, lower urinary tract symptoms and faecal incontinence are common in the general population and increase in association with…
The ageing syndromes of sarcopenia and frailty
Sarcopenia describes the accelerated loss of skeletal muscle, manifesting as a combination of low muscle strength and low muscle mass.…
Impact of the common MTHFR 677C→T polymorphism on blood pressure in adulthood and role of riboflavin in modifying the genetic risk of hypertension: evidence from the JINGO project
Genome-wide and clinical studies have linked the 677C→T polymorphism in the gene encoding methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) with hypertension, whilst limited…