Quick Study: Chemotherapy fatigue, prostate cancer surgery

Exercise may reduce chemo-related fatigue.THE QUESTION Fatigue is a frequent complaint of people getting chemotherapy for cancer. Might exercise change that? THIS STUDY involved 269 adults (average age, 47) who, as a group, had 21 cancer diagnoses; all were undergoing chemotherapy. All got standard medical care for cancer; some were assigned to supplement that care with nine hours of supervised exercise. The exercise included high-intensity cardiovascular...

Well: Overweight Patients Face Bias

Stuart Bradford Are doctors nicer to patients who aren’t fat?A provocative new study suggests that they are — that thin patients are treated with more warmth and empathy than those who are overweight or obese.For the study, published in the medical journal Obesity, researchers at Johns Hopkins obtained permission to record discussions between 39 primary care doctors and more...

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