Researchers have identified a focal point for the forces they suspect of driving up cancer cases in young people: the gut. They are searching people’s bodies and childhood histories for culprits. Rates of gastrointestinal cancers among people under 50 are increasing across the globe. In the U.S., colorectal cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in men under 50 and second for women behind breast cancer. Each generation born since the 1950s has had higher risk than the one before. "Everything you can think of that has been introduced in our society since really the 1960s, the post-World War II era, is a potential culprit," said Dr. Marios Giannakis, a gastrointestinal oncologist at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.
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Rochester-based hospital says Sanford’s misrepresentations have stuck the clinic with the bills; Sanford counters that Mayo is “looking to shift blame for its mistakes.”
It's easy to forget that we live in an age of medical wonders. Cancer tumors can be slowed or shrunk in ways previous generations couldn't imagine, with everything from pills to genetically engineered white blood cells. Surgeons can transplant a face, or replace a heart valve without cracking a chest.
It's been well known for many decades that exercise provides many benefits to our health. But a new scientific consortium is revealing new insights into just how profound exercise can be for the human body.
The rise and fall of Steward Health Care tracks a surge in private equity into all sectors of U.S. healthcare in the wake of the 2010 Affordable Care Act. The annual value of private equity health care deals roughly tripled over the 2010s, reaching $120 billion by 2019, according to experts. Today, private equity firms own around 460 US hospitals, about 8 percent of all private hospitals and 22 percent of all for-profit hospitals, according to the nonprofit Private Equity Stakeholder Project. At its peak, Steward, with more than 30 hospitals, was a significant slice of that pie. Private equity deals are often pitched as the last chance to save struggling hospitals. Sometimes they do. In other cases, hospital systems have been stripped of assets and neglected while executives and investors reap huge payouts. Today, Steward is under scrutiny in several ways, including bankruptcy court, where the carcass of the company — $9 billion in debt — is being picked over. And in federal district court, where prosecutors are digging into allegations of financial mismanagement that hastened the company’s collapse. In Massachusetts, taxpayers are bracing for a $700 million bill to rescue several Steward hospitals, from the same government that permitted this to happen. A Steward spokeswoman said the company declined to comment. Early this year, the Globe Spotlight Team set out to examine what went wrong in this once-promising, Boston-born hospital chain. What's emerged is a cautionary tale about letting a wannabe billionaire, a titan of private equity, and a real estate investment trust become stewards of a public necessity like healthcare. It is about how they took a business dedicated to serving patients, and by their own account, turned it into a business for finance and investing. And it is about how everyone, so far, has gotten away with it.