Since 2012, the Basser Center for BRCA has been working towards treating, preventing, and researching BRCA related Cancers. Now, the Center has launched #invisiblegenes to bring awareness to inherited cancer and increase early detection.
Dana Zucker, Executive Director of the Gray Foundation and Mindy Gray Co-founder for Basser Center for BRCA and Gray Foundation join Cheddar to explain the campaign and why understanding BRCA is so important. Everyone has BRCA genes, but the issue is when those genes are mutated.
BRCA mutations can lead to breast cancer, ovarian cancer, and others. The Basser Center for BRCA hopes that through their work, the treatments around breast cancer and other hereditary gene cancers will improve and become less cumbersome and intrusive.
The first over-the-counter drug to reverse opioid overdoses will be available in stores by next week.
The Environmental Protection Agency said it has revised a key rule relating to the nation's waters that would weaken efforts to protect acres of wetlands.
A new study has found that air pollution is a personal health threat and more dangerous than smoking and drinking.
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A rare blue supermoon could raise ocean tides and make flooding worse during Hurricane Idalia.
Cheddar News checks in with a coast-to-coast forecast of the weather for Wednesday, August 30, 2023, including the latest on Hurricane Idalia.
Better catch the show if you can. There won't be another blue supermoon until 2037.
Doctors in Australia removed a three-inch living roundworm from a woman's brain.
