Jolie wave lessons linger on ovarian cancer and genetic risk
KU Hospital surgeon Jamie Wagner notes ovarian cancer screening is limited and urges removal of ovaries after 40 for BRCA mutation carriers. Stories show many women seek testing after Jolie's 2013 and 2018 actions, but actual testing remains below 25 percent. hysterectomy decisions reflect fear and preventive care.
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Angelina Jolie
University of Kansas Hospital
Jolie
KU Hospital
Jamie Wagner
Wagner
Jolie’s
Jennifer Klemp
Klemp
Ramona Farris
Kansas City
Farris
United States
Canada
United Kingdom
Supreme Court revives Pregnant worker suit against UPS
The court 6-3 orders lower courts to decide if men with temporary disabilities fared better, while not mandating universal pregnancy accommodations. Justice Breyer writes the decision, sending the broader 1978 federal law question back for lower court ruling. UPS has since revised its policy and several states enacted protections.
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Washington
Supreme Court
United Parcel Service
Peggy Young
UPS
Stephen G. Breyer
Young
California
Illinois
Maryland
DNA clues reveal complex roots of slavery era migrations
A large genetic study parses 1,414 whole genomes into 70 clusters to map African and European ancestry in the Americas. It finds Basque traces in South America and Sicily and Sardinia signals, with strongest African influence in the Caribbean and Barbados at 0.87, Spain-driven European input in Colombia and Puerto Rico, and mixed ancestry in Mexico.
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Americas
Continents
Africa
Atlantic
Nature Communications
South America
Cristian Capelli
University of Oxford
Nigeria
Senegal
Central
Capelli
Spain
France
Sicily
Sardinia
Mediterranean
Caribbean
Barbados
U.S
Britain
Colombia
Puerto Rico
Louisiana
Mexico
Pollution exposure linked to reduced brain matter in children
A JAMA Psychiatry online report links prenatal polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon exposure from car exhaust and smoking to reduced left white matter in toddlers, slowed cognitive processing, and ADHD symptoms. The study followed 40 eight year olds from a Columbia University birth cohort of 655 NYC mothers.
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Jama Psychiatry
Usc de
Bradley Peterson
Institute For the Developing Mind
Children’s Hospital
Los Angeles
Columbia University
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