After being diagnosed with colorectal cancer, Allison Rudnick wanted to know more about what to expect.
"Social media was one of the first places I went," she tells NPR’s Menaka Wilhelm.
Doctors, researchers and drugmakers are doing the same thing. They’re scouring posts for clues about side effects from drugs. And they’re finding them.
Stanford University dermatologist Bernice Kwong and her colleagues identified a link between a lung cancer drug and a loss of the ability to sweat.
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Federal officials recommend that adults 50 and older get the Shingrix vaccine to protect against shingles, a painful infection that strikes 1 in 3 Americans during their lifetime.
Approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 2017, Shingrix is more effective and protects people longer than Zostavax, the first shingles vaccine on the market.
But persuading many adults to keep up with their vaccinations continues to be an uphill battle, writes Michelle Andrews, a reporter with our partner Kaiser Health News.
Cost can be a factor. It’s also the case that adults often lose track of their vaccine status. Others just put it off. "I'm healthy; I'll get that when I'm older" is what adult patients often tell Dr. Michael Munger, a family physician in Overland Park, Kan.
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Since adolescence, Shots contributor Kasia Galazka has struggled with the urge to pull her hair and pick at her skin.
There’s a big difference between casual fidgeting and behavior so repetitive that it causes distress or interferes with everyday life.
For Galazka, it was the latter. She went in search of information and help. Along the way she got to know a lot of women, who are more prone to the disorders, and learned how they had dealt with the issue.
“The more I spoke to people with these disorders, the more it became apparent that it's a different experience for everyone,” Galazka writes.
Your Shots editor, Scott Hensley
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