Sexually Transmitted Infections on the Rise Among Older Adults, CDC Data Reveals

However, older adults may have missed out on comprehensive sex education during their younger years. Traditional schools in the past did not provide formal sexual education, leading to a lack of knowledge among older adults about STI transmission, symptoms, and prevention. Doctors may also be hesitant to discuss sexual activity with older patients, and individuals themselves may not feel comfortable discussing their sex lives with peers or family members.

Risks Overlooked by Doctors and Older Adults

Several factors may be contributing to the rise in STI rates among older adults. As people are living longer and enjoying more active lifestyles in their 60s, 70s, and 80s, sexual activity becomes a part of their lives. A survey conducted by AARP and the University of Michigan in 2018 estimated that 40% of people ages 65 to 80 are sexually active, with nearly two-thirds expressing an interest in sex. Hormone replacement therapy can also prolong sexual desire in older women, while drugs like Viagra can help older men remain sexually

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) new vice-chancellor Dr. Din Mohammad Nurul Haque will take charge today. He was announced on March 11. Since then there was commotion in BSMMU. But today Thursday (March 28) a completely different picture was seen.

Officers and employees at various levels of the institution are wai

With more than 2.7 million cases reported since the beginning of 2024, the region most affected by the dengue is he Southern Coneintegrated by Brazil, ArgentinaParaguay and Uruguay, according to the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO).

It is an infection caused by a virus that is transmitted by the bites of female mosquitoes. Temples of the Egyptians infected. Only one in four people infected with the pathogen have symptomswhich can range from mild to serious.

In addition to the symptoms of the disease, it must be taken into account that the dengue can cause a sudden increase in hematocrit with rapid decrease in platelet count. These parameters can be known through a blood test.

Las platelets They are particles in the blood that help clotting. They are smaller than red and white blood cells.

The number of platelets in the blood can be affected by many diseases and their counting can be done to monitor or diagnose diseases, or to look for the cause of too much bleeding or clotting.

“Due to dengue infection, platelets can decrease. It is because the human body mistakenly produces antibodies against the virus, but generates a decrease in platelets,” he explained to Infobae Leda Guzziinfectious disease doctor and member of the Argentine Society of Infectology (SADI).

THE colorectal cancer affects the colon (large intestine) or rectum. It is one of the most common types of cancer worldwide. In France there are more than 47,000 new cases per year and more than 17,000 deaths, making it the second leading cause of cancer death in France. In the vast majority of cases, it starts with a benign tumor that will then slowly progress to become cancerous. Good diagnostic tools are therefore essential to identify these tumors and study their evolution. Therefore, a breakthrough from the Edinburgh Research Institute and the University of Glasgow offers hope.

In fact, to diagnose colon cancer in case of suggestive symptoms or screening, doctors use colonoscopy and biopsy. However, these are invasive procedures that are not without risks (especially in the case of infection). Furthermore, it provides only an incomplete picture of what is happening in the patient’s body. In this month of March, dedicated precisely to the prevention and screening of colorectal cancerScottish researchers present a new diagnostic and monitoring tool.

A three-dimensional view to monitor colorectal cancer

Because of this study published in Clinical Cancer Research on March 17, The University of Glasgow used positron emission tomography (PET), a medical imaging technique practiced by nuclear medicine specialists used to detect and visualize biological and physiological processes in the human body in three dimensions. Thanks to the emissions produced by radioactive positrons previously injected intravenously, we can study the metabolic or molecular activity of an organ. Here, this technology made it possible to completely visualize the bowels of patients to examine them andstudy tumors without

▲Research results have shown that type 2 diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease are related to each other. (Photo = DB)

[메디컬투데이=최재백 기자] Type 2 diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease have been shown to be linked.

Research findings showing a link between type 2 diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease were presented at the annual meeting of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

A research team at Texas A&M University cited meta-analysis data showing that the risk of developing Alzheimer’s dementia in patients with type 2 diabetes is 56 percent higher than in people without diabetes. Since type 2 diabetes is related to eating habits and lifestyle, eating habits and lifestyle habits are related: it was expected that this could be an important fact

Unfortunately, apple cider vinegar does not help you lose weight. But it is ideal for showering. Our author is allergic to preservatives and fragrances in most skin care products. That’s why she’s been washing herself almost exclusively with apple cide

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The biologist, winner of the National Research Award of Catalonia, investigates the spread of metastases in colon cancer.

The scientist Eduard Batlle, director of the Cancer Science Program at the Barcelona Biomedical Research Institute (IRB),

The place on Earth where it is most difficult to live, says scientist Eduard Batlle (Barcelona, ​​53 years old), must be “the wall of the intestine.” For everything that circulates out there. From digestion waste to carcinogens that we encounter in the environment or ingest. The researcher knows this hostile environment well: this molecular biologist, director of the Cancer Science Program at the Barcelona Biomedical Research Institute (IRB), has been trying to unravel the functioning of colon cancer for three decades, a tumor that affects almost every year. two million people in the world and causes more than 900,000 deaths.

Batlle works in a tiny cubicle that operates as an office inside his laboratory. His discoveries to understand these tumors and his discoveries about the behavior of tumor cells that spread outside the colon to form metastases have earned him, just 24 hours earlier, the National Research Award from the Generalitat of Catalonia. Grateful, he warns that there is still much to know about colon cancer: for example, “understanding how these cells [tumorales] “they escape” from the available treatments.

Ask. Each tumor is a world. What makes the colon different?

Answer. What we have learned is that these tumors are a disease of the stem cells of the intestinal wall: colon cancer adopts the continuous regeneration mechanisms of stem cells. And another central thing that we have learned is cellular plasticity, a mechanism through which tumor cells and normal cells are able to adapt to different types of stimuli or insults.

Q. What implications do these characteristics of tumor cells have?

A. This results in them being very plastic tumors and, therefore, when we give them therapy, some cells die, but others simply change their state to adapt to this new situation and resist the treatment. We are beginning to learn what pathways cells use to adapt and what new states they acquire depending on the situation. If we understand this process of adaptability, perhaps we can block it and this would improve therapies very substantially.

Q. Are tumor cells more intelligent than you scientists?

A. Tumor cells are accelerated evolution machines. And, furthermore, this plasticity gives them an additional property