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The Basics Antiperspirant: Categorized as an over-the-counter (OTC) drug by the FDA, an antiperspirant uses ingredients (see several examples below) that interact with sweat glands to target and prevent wetness, says cosmetics chemist Ron Robinson, the founder of BeautyStat.com. Deodorant: Let’s clear up a big misconception — the purpose of a deodorant is solely to mask underarm odor, not to prevent wetness. “Deodorants often contain fragrance along with an active deodorant called triclosan,” says Robinson, “which prevents odor-causing bacteria from growing....

After waking up one morning feeling like she couldn’t breathe, Hassen went to urgent care. The doctor also thought she had reflux but told her if she didn’t get better in a week she would need scans. “I felt better for a few days, but then the pain came back,” she says. This time the doctor took a chest X-ray, which revealed that Hassen had a large tumor mass in the midline of her chest that was encroaching on her lungs and esophagus....

— Lorraine, New York The information you provide in your question touches upon many important points about cat allergies. First, you describe not having noticeable symptoms with your previous cat but reacting dramatically to the new cat. This is absolutely possible, because cats differ in the amount of allergen they produce. Unfortunately, they don’t differ based upon breed, but rather from individual to individual. First, let me offer a little background about cat allergies....

A person who has recently heard the words, “You have multiple sclerosis” would be well served to quickly and skillfully build an effective MS filter. First, Learn the Facts About MS Early on, the filter will be an important gatekeeper. It will allow only information from reputable sources to pass through. Particularly as one goes in search of answers in those early years, facts and science will be most important in filling one’s MS toolbox....

“Your disease is likely to progress if you don’t take your medications,” says Twan Phanijphand, DO, a gastroenterologist with St. Anthony’s Medical Center in St. Louis. And this can increase your risk of more serious problems, including colon cancer. A review published in 2019 in Gastroenterology Research and Practice found that the risk of colon cancer increased dramatically every decade a person has ulcerative colitis. Staying in remission with medication may reduce this risk....

Even if you’re getting the amount of exercise recommended by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (and several other health groups), you may still face health risks associated with too much sitting, research shows. RELATED: HHS Updates Physical Activity Guidelines to Say We Should Be Moving More All Day Long So how many steps per day do you need? And how frequently do you need to be taking those steps?...

Marketed for type 2 diabetes as Mounjaro, the drug can lead to dramatic weight loss and a significant reduction in A1C, or average blood sugar levels, in people with type 2 diabetes. Mounjaro is now commercially available for that group, says Maggie Pfeiffer, the associate director of Lilly Diabetes Communications (Eli Lilly and Company manufactures the drug). This once-weekly injection was approved by the FDA as a new class of medication for people with type 2 diabetes on May 13, 2022....

You can inherit a TP53 mutation from your parents or develop one later in life. An inherited TP53 mutation may lead to Li-Fraumeni syndrome (LFS). Scientists have identified at least 140 different mutations in the TP53 gene in people with LFS. (1) Breast cancerBone cancerLeukemiaSoft tissue cancersColorectal cancerLung cancerCancer of the adrenal gland TP53 mutations that are acquired later in life are much more common. These are also known as “somatic” mutations and are found in about half of all cancer cases....

“That narrative kept going over and over, and I couldn’t get the loop out of my head,” she says. With each replay, she recalls, she ruminated on whether her brother suffered before his death — and she became increasingly worried someone else was going to die. “The safe predictable world you once knew is gone. When my brother died, I didn’t feel like my parents could protect us. I felt my brother died, so I could die....

The process typically begins (and for the most fortunate patients, ends) with surgical removal of the tumor. This procedure generally takes place at the doctor’s office under local anesthesia. Melanoma caught early is highly curable, with a five-year survival rate of 99 percent, according to the American Cancer Society. (1) But if cancer cells have spread to the lymph nodes or beyond, surgery alone is not enough. Until recent years, metastatic melanoma had an extremely daunting prognosis....

“Stage 4 disease is incurable, and men who have stage 4 will either die of the disease, or their disease will be fought to a draw, and they will die of something else,” said Otis Brawley, MD, chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society. “Many of these men will do well with treatment.” About two-thirds of men who receive a diagnosis of stage 4 prostate cancer will die within five years....

A functional nutritionist gets to the root of a person’s wellness issues, and prevents future illnesses from arising. “So, if someone has blood sugar issues, you don’t just say, ‘Okay, take this medication,” says Justice, who lives in Stamford, Connecticut, and has a son and a daughter in their twenties. “It’s, ‘Why do you have blood sugar issues? How is your diet? What’s your family history? What can we do to help fix that root issue so that your blood sugar stabilizes, and you don’t have to take any medication?...

Except giving up is simply not in her nature. “After I was diagnosed, I thought, ‘I’m going to do my work no matter what,” she says. “When I started having tremors in my hands, I started strapping my paintbrushes to my wrists so that they would remain stable. When I started to lose sight in my eye, and had trouble with seeing depth and perception in my work, I’d call someone into the studio and say, ‘How does this look?...

The blood loss and internal damage to the intestine associated with ulcerative colitis can frequently lead to iron deficiency, when your body is not getting enough iron to function properly. In fact, anemia is the most common complication associated with inflammatory bowel diseases, according to a review published in May 2019 in the Swiss medical journal Acta Haematologica. But it’s not as simple as taking iron supplements. Some iron-deficiency treatments, especially oral supplements, may actually make your ulcerative colitis symptoms worse....

“The majority of asthma that we see, particularly in children, is allergic asthma,” says Felicia Rabito, PhD, MPH, an associate professor in the department of epidemiology at the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine in New Orleans. Allergic asthma occurs when allergens in your environment trigger symptoms of asthma, such as coughing, wheezing, and shortness of breath. Common substances that cause an asthmatic allergic response in children and adults are pollen, cockroaches, dust mites, mold, and pets....

Postpartum psychosis is a severe mental illness characterized by extreme difficulty in responding emotionally to a newborn baby — it can even include thoughts of harming the child. The condition is different from postpartum depression, though the two conditions may occur together. “It usually represents a bipolar disorder, not just a depressive disorder,” says psychiatrist Charlotte Ladd, MD, associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. In fact, Dr....

In fact, some patients feel empowered to have been diagnosed early with prediabetes, and are hopeful of preventing type 2 diabetes, says Ann Whelan, RD, CDE, at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center in Columbus. “By making some nutritional changes and increasing one’s activity level, those more optimistic individuals may feel confident that they will be able to prevent diabetes while getting healthier,” she says. But Whelan also notes some people become overwhelmed with the lifestyle changes that living with diabetes requires, or worry about access to good healthcare, resources, education, and social support....

The liver is the body’s factory. Aside from filtering waste out of the bloodstream, the liver aids digestion by producing a fluid called bile. This fluid flows out of the liver through the bile ducts and into the gallbladder, where it’s stored until the small intestine needs it for digestion. PBC is a chronic (long-term) inflammation of the liver’s bile ducts that ultimately destroys the ducts. Without the ducts, bile remains in the liver, damaging cells and leading to irreversible tissue scarring, known as cirrhosis....

Over the years, anytime she saw similar groupings of circles, or even images of cells displayed during a biology class, she would feel a sickening discomfort. “If I am unexpectedly triggered, it might take me days to recover,” says Armstrong, now a sign language interpreter in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. Because trypophobia can produce a range of symptoms with varying degrees of intensity, from mild aversion to an immediate, intense feeling of disgust, fear, or even a full-blown panic attack, it’s likely “a natural and widely shared phenomenon that most people can experience to some degree,” says Renzo Lanfranco, a PhD student in psychology and human cognitive neuroscience at the University of Edinburgh who has researched trypophobia....

An online survey done by Cleveland Clinic to look at how the coronavirus outbreak has affected men found that of the 1,000 participants (all were 18 or older), 77 percent of respondents said their stress levels are higher now than before 2020, and about 45 percent reported declining emotional and mental health. Fifty-nine percent said the pandemic felt more troubling to them than the last major recession. RELATED: Top Self-Care Tips for Taking Care of You During the Coronavirus Pandemic As they’ve navigated through the pandemic, some men have found self-care to be more important than ever....