When did “home” become embedded in human consciousness? Is our sense of home instinctive? Are we denning animals or nest builders, or are we, at root, nomadic? For much of the earliest history of our ...

Cancer is one of the leading causes of death among people living with HIV in Brazil. However, with antiretroviral therapy (ART), the cancer profile has shifted: Kaposi sarcoma and AIDS-related ...

A hospital has introduced new specialist equipment designed to help detect pre-cancerous cells at an earlier stage, in what experts have described as a "vital" development for patient care. The ...

A new outpatient high-resolution anoscopy (HRA) service has been set up at Oxford's Churchill hospital. The service, designed to aid early detection and management of pre-cancerous anal conditions, ...

You do not normally need to do anything to prepare yourself for an anoscopy and biopsy. But the hospital will tell you if there is anything to avoid beforehand. This may include not having anal sex or ...

As a virologist, I assumed that the name “Pap smear” was somehow related to the infectious agent that is associated with 99.7% of cervical cancers: human papillomavirus (HPV). However, it turns out ...

Decades of research suggest that the quality of our social ties might be the single biggest predictor of our well-being. Social connections are sometimes called “social capital” for good reason: They ...

David Kindness is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and an expert in the fields of financial accounting, corporate and individual tax planning and preparation, and investing and retirement planning.

The global high-resolution anoscopy market is poised for substantial growth, projected to surge from USD 13.93 billion in 2022 to USD 24.95 billion by 2032, growing at a compound annual growth rate ...

A long-running theme of U.S. black history (a panel from Jacob Lawrence's 1940-41 "Migration Series") may have to be revised. © Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence ...