
By DENISE GRADY from NYT Health https://ift.tt/2Ek86hk

Keytruda is the drug responsible for the remission of former President Jimmy Carter's cancer in 2015. Carter, then 90, had melanoma that spread to his brain and liver. Treatment with Keytruda appears to have cured him.
Women with the high-grade pre-cancerous cervical lesions had a more abundant and diverse mix of bacteria in their cervical microbiomes than women who had no lesions or less serious lesions, according to the study published recently in the journal mBio.
The investigators found that both actual income losses and expectations of lost income affected health care spending decisions of single mothers differently than two-parent families.