Colon polyps are growths of tissue on the lining of the colon and rectum, and some polyps can become cancerous.
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Corals are really a collection of tiny creatures called polyps — these polyps each bear eight tentacles and share a stomach, giving the octocoral its name.
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Offered a choice of brine shrimp and hydroid polyps (small coral-like organisms), the slugs opted for polyps that had swallowed the shrimp—a clever caloric twofer.
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While cervical polyps are a common cause of spotting during pregnancy because of increased estrogen in your body, they can also appear outside of pregnancy, as can uterine polyps.
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Coral is made up of millions of tiny animals called polyps that form symbiotic relationships with algae, which capture sunlight and carbon dioxide to make sugars that feed the polyps.
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A polyp removal might prevent cancer but could mean paying higher insurance rates, because patients who get polyps are at risk for developing more polyps, which can be precursors to cancer.
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They are made up of millions of tiny animals, called polyps, that form symbiotic relationships with algae, which in turn capture sunlight and carbon dioxide to make sugars that feed the polyps.
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He had long suffered from nasal inflammation and obstructive polyps.
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Unless your doctor has determined that your polyps are cancerous or precancerous, smaller polyps don't need to be removed unless they're causing really unbearable side effects or making it difficult for you to become pregnant.
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The amazing colours are pigments present in the coral polyps themselves.
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Individual corals are tiny, gelatinous animals infelicitously referred to as polyps.
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Kenny Becker: Basically, I have nasal polyps that are really bad.
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Polyps divide into thousands of clones that eventually form coral reefs.
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The amazing colors are pigments present in the coral polyps themselves.
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In fact, corals also feed on zooplankton or phytoplankton through their polyps.
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Coral consists of symbiotic communities of algae and tiny animals called polyps.
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This causes the polyps to eject them, to ensure short-term survival.
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An earlier version of this article misstated the size of coral polyps.
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Most of the time, however, the polyps never progress and remain harmless.
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He soon discovered he had major vocal cord polyps, with some hemorrhaging.
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Sometimes polyps are transparent and we see only the white skeleton beneath.
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And if polyps are detected, a traditional colonoscopy is needed to remove them.
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Mr. Pence last had a colonoscopy in 2009, and no polyps were found.
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In most coral species, the polyps secrete limestone which forms a hard skeleton.
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So to protect patients, doctors remove any polyps they find during a colonoscopy.
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People with F.A.P. can have hundreds of polyps, their colons lined with growths.
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Has anyone in your family had colorectal cancer, or had precancerous polyps removed?
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But another culprit surfaced: a hemoglobin deficiency and polyps in his digestive tract.
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"Heavier bleeding could be a sign of fibroids, polyps, or hormonal changes," she says.
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The other creatures in shot are polyps of Astroides calycularis, a type of coral.
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Polyps that survive one such ordeal will, however, fare better if temperatures rise again.
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Image: Tim FlachImage: Tim FlachPictured above are chalice coral polyps, followed by Montipora coral.
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It also didn't examine how many people with polyps went on to develop cancer.
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Patients with chronic sinusitis and nasal polyps may get relief from steroids and surgery.
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During bleaching, as the symbiotic algae depart, you can see the beautifully colored polyps.
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Colon cancer screening programs aim to identify and remove polyps that can sometimes become cancerous.
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This provides shelter to algae; they in turn generate sugars on which the polyps feed.
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We found a doctor who was willing to remove the polyps and perform reconstructive surgery.
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Polyps can tolerate occasional bleaching, but if it goes on too long, then they die.
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Polyps, moles and benign growths also have mutations that resemble those in tumors, he said.
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Polyps "stress hardened" in this way will be planted on wild reefs in coming months.
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The toxins repel the tiny animals called polyps essential to the ecosystem of the corals.
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In their young stage of development, jellyfish are called polyps and will sometimes form colonies.
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There is just one scientist who has been culturing Turritopsis polyps in his lab consistently.
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I looked up polyp and read the facts to reassure us: Polyps can be removed.
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The slugs also ate about double the number of fed polyps compared to unfed ones.
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Urchins help keep reefs healthy by munching away at algae that can smother coral polyps.
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As the polyps grew more active, I found myself investing them with little gelatinous personalities.
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Before bleaching… During bleaching, as the symbiotic algae depart, you can see the beautifully coloured polyps.
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Benign polyps are treated differently if you have Lynch syndrome, a genetic predisposition to colon cancer.
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New polyps are returning and starting to build new skeletal structures to replace the dead coral.
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Usually, he snored, because he had polyps in his nose, but now he was strangely quiet.
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Most die or get eaten, but some settle on the ocean floor and become coral polyps.
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Coral bleaching occurs when warm temperatures cause the polyps to expel the zooxanthellae, leaving them colorless.
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They pop the polyps off the hydroids as one might pick a flower off a stalk.
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A year ago, I was diagnosed with nasal polyps and regularly snored like a wild boar.
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Polyps are transparent; it's the microscopic plants living inside them that give them their ruddy hue.
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The coral polyps form colonies and build a limestone scaffolding on which to live — a reef.
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And colorectal cancer has declined because improved screening techniques have allowed for the removal of precancerous polyps.
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Other than the nasal polyps that have long plagued his sinuses, they were a pretty healthy pair.
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Luminescent soft coral polyps Flower hat jellyfish A brightly colored bioluminescent jellyfish swims in deep ocean waters.
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As Dr van Oppen's results would predict, the polyps seemed to benefit little from this artificial inoculation.
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After factoring in sedation and removal of polyps or lesions, a colonoscopy can cost several thousand dollars.
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"They did find some polyps and they told me to come back in three years," Ramón said.
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In the study, yogurt consumption didn't appear to impact the risk of pre-cancerous polyps in women.
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By eating polyps with full bellies, it's able to consume far fewer of them, thus preserving its habitat.
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A very tiny cnidarian, a jellyfish known as Aegina, is seen feeding on the polyps of bamboo corals.
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You can analyze a colonoscopy, and machine vision will pick up polyps that are missed by GI doctors.
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Unfortunately for my sister, there were too many polyps to remove without ripping out her entire stomach lining.
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The drug is also expected to have further uses in asthma, nasal polyps, eosinophilic esophagitis and food allergies.
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Pregnancy, STDs, cervical polyps, cervical cancer, and vaginal cuts are all potential causes of vaginal bleeding after sex.
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The new approval, which could significantly boost annual sales, is for patients with chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps.
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The polyps recoil and expel the algae from their tissue, leaving the coral with a ghastly "bleached" appearance.
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And my uterus looks normal, meaning there's no evidence of fibroids or polyps that could interfere with implantation.
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He began to slow down only in the mid-'90s, when doctors found polyps on his vocal cords.
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We swam among sharks, sea turtles, fish, and tons of coral—massive colonies of tiny animals called polyps.
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I had three pre-cancerous polyps found in my colon a few years ago, so I get regular colonoscopies.
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"Polyps are small outgrowths of tissue (think about a larger skin tag) and can bleed easily," Dr. Linhorst explains.
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Single coral polyps attach, building and grow together as a colony in one large aggregation of connected individual organisms.
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Known infelicitously as polyps, individual corals are generally no more than a tenth of an inch or so across.
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To defend themselves, the polyps spit out (or slough off) their symbionts and turn white—hence the term bleaching.
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She has precancerous polyps in her stomach, which means I'm the only one without any hint of cancer so far.
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That's the much more common, and much less scary option: because it could also be from polyps or colon cancer.
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Another reason you could be bleeding is if there are polyps, tiny and benign reddish-pink growths, in your cervix.
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Only for colorectal cancers has the overall incidence declined, primarily the result of increased screening and removal of precancerous polyps.
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Under the laser, these showed up as bright-red dots, so that the polyps seemed to be glowing from within.
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And, even if this could be accomplished, how would you get billions and billions of polyps settled in the ocean?
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When temperatures rise, the polyps expel the algae, causing coral to lose its colour and die—a process known as bleaching.
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Corals are made up of multitudes of tiny polyps, and each one—like their jellyfish cousins—has a prickly, venomous sting.
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But unless the temperature then drops, the polyps will not readmit the algae and bacteria, and so, eventually, they do die.
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But because the polyps need these microalgae in order to survive, without them they turn white, a process known as bleaching.
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According to Us Weekly, Evans also had polyps on her uterus, which were removed and sent to a lab for testing.
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Colorectal cancer is unique in that it has a de facto cure: the early identification and removal of polyps and lesions.
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In their cells, polyps house even tinier algae, which they rely on for food, to help fuel their extraordinary building projects.
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Even weeks later, one of the duncan corals the tang had nibbled still had most of its lime-green polyps retracted.
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And that in 1983 he had polyps removed from his larynx, and that he had not been able to speak since.
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Researchers built the first microscope that can provide a detailed view of coral polyps in their natural state, on the seafloor.
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Cervical polyps occur in between 2% and 5% of women and sometimes friction from vaginal sex can cause them to bleed.
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These and other studies also found no increased risk of breast cancer, colorectal cancer, precancerous colonic polyps or cancer in general.
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Coral polyps are tiny animals that act a bit like farmers, raising even tinier plants — algae — that supply them with food.
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But it would have been much more beautiful alive, a colony of tiny polyps bustling and busy as a three-dimensional city.
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The foundation noted the population had crashed once before, in 1999, but had rebounded 18 months later because some polyps had survived.
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It happens when heat-stressed polyps, the sessile animals that construct coral reefs, eject the photosynthetic algae which usually reside within them.
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The coral polyps rely on their algae for nutrients, so if the algae is gone for too long, the coral will die.
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They can be self-reproducing hermaphrodites, clone themselves, lay up to 45,000 eggs a day, sprout from polyps, and split in two.
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That tradition teaches that all of life originally sprang forth from coral polyps, Kosaki said -- not altogether different from what evolution teaches.
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The corals themselves are tiny polyps that act like farmers, capturing colorful single-celled plants called algae that convert sunlight into food.
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When polyps are detected early, it could allow someone for example with an APC mutation to literally potentially add decades to their lives.
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This distinguishes them from other green-glowing polyps that otherwise look very similar, giving biologists another way to tell various polyp species apart.
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Age is one: The prevalence of potentially dangerous polyps rises sharply after age 50, studies of tens of thousands of people have shown.
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"I never had any nodules or anything, and I never had polyps," Mr. Perry said, referring to the state of his vocal cords.
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The Chicago-based video game company produces educational games to train doctors on procedures such as intubating a patient and removing cancerous polyps.
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Dr. Forde promoted the colonoscopy as a routine nonsurgical means of detecting early signs of gastrointestinal and colorectal cancer and removing precancerous polyps.
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The polyps are a form of hydrozoa, tiny invertebrates that can join together to form jellyfish-like creatures like the Portuguese Man O' War.
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It is called bleaching and involves the tiny animals, known as polyps, which are the living part of a reef, ejecting their symbiotic algae.
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Only when they encounter a suitable place (the local bacteria seem to be the deciding factor) will they settle down and grow into polyps.
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The EU's latest approval for Dupixent also comes after the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) regulator in June approved Dupixent to treat nasal polyps.
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Coral bleaching is an event when corals, which are tiny polyps that form reefs together, expel the colorful algae that live inside of them.
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ScienceTake Coral reefs can extend more than 1,000 miles, but they are made by coral polyps as small as one sixteenth of an inch.
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The microscope is powerful enough to show individual zooxanthellae, about 10 microns, or one-tenth the width of a human hair, in the polyps.
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The corals excrete a hard substance that builds up into a reef, giving the coral polyps and many other creatures a place to live.
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For example, getting a colonoscopy every 10 years has the advantage that, if potentially cancerous polyps are detected, they can be removed during the procedure.
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In people under 50 without any history of polyps, colonoscopies are usually performed to identify the sources of intestinal problems, according to the Mayo Clinic.
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It usually fails to pick up polyps and thus would not prevent cancer, but it is more effective than the old fecal occult blood test.
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Or, two periods in one month could be a sign that there are some structural issues within your reproductive system, like cysts and polyps, she says.
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The companies have massed up approvals for three major diseases for their drug Dupixent including asthma and nasal polyps since the drug was approved in 2017.
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These algae are symbionts, providing nutrients to their hosts in return for shelter, so losing them is harmful to polyps and often results in their death.
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"While most polyps don't develop into cancer, some do, therefore removing them can help prevent bowel cancer developing," Cancer Research U.K. said in an online statement.
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Sanofi co-develops Dupixent with U.S partner Regeneron for at least seven other conditions including paediatric asthma, chronic sinus infection with nasal polyps, and adolescent eczema.
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Colonoscopy, the gold standard for detecting cancer and removing precancerous polyps, has the dubious distinction of being the least pleasant of all the available screening tests.
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For years, he's ceased to be a human musician with a definable genre and become a weird Portuguese man o' war formed of tiny cultural polyps.
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Abnormal polyps can take 10 to 15 years to develop into colon cancer, and some adenomas found with screening may never become cancerous or prove fatal.
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Bleaching occurs when warm waters prompt the coral polyps to reject the algae that live on them and provide them with nutrients — and their bright colors.
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" Quotable "I kind of build a novel the way marine polyps build a coral reef; it's millions and millions of little precarious bodies stacked on one another.
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A mound of the stuff is made up of thousands of tiny invertebrates called polyps, that can be anything from a few millimetres to several centimetres wide.
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While coral polyps could still take hold and regrow into reefs, scientists anticipate that bleaching events will leave long-lasting marks on the face of ocean ecosystems.
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Gross noted that colonoscopies can actually prevent cancer, because doctors can remove polyps during the procedure, whereas mammograms only allow doctors to see growths in the breast.
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The much-speeded-up video shows the polyps of one species engaging the others by extending their digestive systems like an attacking amoeba to digest the invaders.
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In both groups, cancer begins with polyps, benign growths of colon cells that carry a mutation or two that can set them on the path to cancer.
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Corals can, in effect, clone themselves, so a typical polyp is surrounded by—and also attached to—thousands of other polyps that are genetically identical to it.
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Currently, Medicare covers screening colonoscopies at no cost to the patient, but if polyps are removed during the screening procedure, beneficiaries are suddenly saddled with unexpected costs.
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But for people without risk factors or a personal or family history of polyps or colorectal cancer, it is usually done only once every 10 years. FIT.
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When the polyps die, macro or turf algae take over — a process that is already evident along parts of the 800 km of worst-affected Great Barrier Reef.
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Conservationists have a new tool to do so with LarvalBot, an underwater robot platform that may greatly accelerate efforts to re-seed old corals with healthy new polyps.
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Surprisingly, maritime shipping and undersea drilling industries also benefit jellyfish, since one of the creatures' reproductive stages, the polyps stage, requires them to settle on a hard surface.
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When the waters get too hot, the living coral polyps that build the reef expel the zooxanthellae that live in their hard skeletons and provide them with nutrients.
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One is machine pattern recognition to promote the rapid and accurate reading of medical scans, slides, skin lesions, the pickup of small polyps during colonoscopy, and much more.
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Make sure you know your family's medical history — including not only whether any close relatives had colorectal cancer, but whether they had benign polyps, which can be precancerous.
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Editorial Coral reefs are among the most remarkable achievements of nature, structures built in shallow water over long periods of time out of the skeletons of tiny polyps.
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Problem with the uterus or cervix: Sometimes the uterus can have growths like fibroids or polyps that don&apost always cause miscarriage, but they can increase your risk.
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When the polyps die, macro or turf algae take over – a process that is already evident along parts of the 800 km of worst-affected Great Barrier Reef.
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Metabiomics is focused on creating a non-invasive stool test that analyzes the human gut microbiome for the earlier and more accurate identification of colon polyps and colorectal cancer.
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Meanwhile, Regeneron has been increasingly relying on Dupixent and has massed up approvals for three major diseases including asthma and nasal polyps since the drug was approved in 2017.
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Man-made structures like docks or oil rigs are easier for jellyfish polyps to attach to than sand or rocks on the ocean floor, according to the Smithsonian Institute.
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Over 60,000 jellyfish have lived in space, thanks to an experiment in which polyps were launched into outer space to test how they reacted to the lack of gravity.
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In normal times, the living coral polyps form a symbiotic relationship with zooxanthellae, a colorful type of algae that synthesizes sunlight and CO153 to create nutrients for the reef.
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The macro photography of coral polyps, thousands of which protrude from any given coral formation, yields imagery that is more awe-inspiringly peculiar than anything in sci-fi cinema.
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Patients at high risk for colon cancer — those over 50 or who have a genetic predisposition — now rely on colonoscopies to look for and remove precancerous growths called polyps.
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The researchers note that the fish like to target damaged, mucus-dumping areas of coral—a hint that they may primarily live on coral goop rather than the polyps themselves.
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In normal times, the living coral polyps form a symbiotic relationship with zooxanthellae, a colorful type of algae that synthesizes sunlight and carbon dioxide to create nutrients for the reef.
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After studying the genetic codes of algae that did well in warm waters, his team began injecting those types of algae into the tiny and tentacle-encircled mouths of polyps.
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In follow-up work, however, Dr Baker has found that after the trauma of bleaching, polyps do extend a preferential welcome to algae that have greater levels of heat tolerance.
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Patient Philip McSparron will undergo the procedure to remove two bowel polyps, small growths on the inner lining of the colon or rectum, most of which are not usually cancerous.
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Dupixent is also being developed for severe asthma, where it will compete with a wave of other new biotech medicines, such as GlaxoSmithKline's Nucala, as well as for nasal polyps.
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Maybe they arrived in the water used for ships' ballasts, or as polyps attached to barnacles on ships' hulls; in shellfish imports, or perhaps they drifted across the Arctic Ocean.
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He also has had polyps removed from his sinuses and suffers from traumatic stress disorder, as well as other illnesses that doctors have linked to his work at ground zero.
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And this was mainly because AI spotted what are known as "diminutive adenomas," or tiny polyps — less than 5 mm in size — that are notoriously easy for doctors to miss.
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Plus, algorithms are being used to diagnose polyps on the colon during colonoscopies, to detect lung cancer, to understand how proteins fold so we can develop new drugs, and more.
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The problem is that reefs can live in only a fairly narrow temperature range, and climate change, when combined with other natural phenomena, can starve the coral polyps to death.
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The polyps live in a thin layer at the surface of a reef; the rest of the structure is essentially a boneyard, composed of the exoskeletons of countless coral generations.
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Data released earlier this month showed Roche AG and Novartis' Xolair is able to treat patients with chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps, potentially pitting it against Dupixent in this patient group.
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Kim's team studied the effects of sewage waste on a reef in Guam and found that the skeleton of coral can support the regrowth of polyps if pollution damage is remediated.
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The instrument has a high-definition camera fixed to the tip to help the doctor identify any potentially problematic polyps (clumps of cells) that can then be removed on the spot.
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Colorectal cancer rates have declined over all in recent years thanks to widespread use of screening tests like colonoscopies, which can detect precancerous polyps that can be removed before cancer develops.
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When they then come back, many of these patients have pre-cancerous polyps that have become cancerous, which makes treating the disease going from a simple snip to having major surgery.
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Zurich Insurance - RBC cuts to "sector perform" from "outperform" * Novartis and Roche said U.S. regulators have accepted a supplementary application for Xolair to treat nasal polyps No major economic data scheduled.
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The shock of being moved had prompted most of the polyps to retract their tentacles, but after a minute or so they began to extend them and gently wave them around.
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Trawling gives them new room for their polyps to settle, and while acidification or chemical pollution doesn't hurt jellyfish, it hurts everything else like fish and shellfish that struggle with environmental change.
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Corals are a type of marine invertebrate animal, typically living in colonies of tiny sac-like polyps that feed by filtering seawater through a set of tentacles surrounding a central mouth opening.
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If temperatures fall back down — as they're expected to in Australia later this year, as El Niño subsides — new polyps will return and start building skeletal structures to replace the dead coral.
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It's not clear why, but a daily dose of aspirin, titrated as high as is tolerated without triggering symptoms, can both improve asthma control and slow down the regrowth of nasal polyps.
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Dr. Yee said that using True 3-D, she is able to move around the folds in the colon to detect hidden polyps, something that has been difficult to do in the past.
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Chronic rhinosinusitis is a persistent inflammation of the mucous membranes in the nose and sinuses that can lead to development of nasal polyps - teardrop shaped, noncancerous growths that can cause irritation and swelling.
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Those at higher risk include African Americans, Alaska Natives, and people with a family history or a personal history of colon or rectal polyps; risk factors such as these could require screening earlier.
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Common causes of a decreased sense of smell include nasal problems, such as deviated septum and nasal polyps; viruses, such as rhinovirus and Epstein-Barr virus; chronic sinusitis; head injury; and certain cancers.
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One day, when I was hanging around Moku o Lo'e, Gates offered to show me some polyps close up, through a state-of-the-art machine known as a laser scanning confocal microscope.
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This test, sold as Cologuard and usually done every three years, combines FIT with markers for abnormal DNA in the stool, making it better able to detect a cancer and advanced precancerous polyps.
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Factors that put you at higher-than-average risk include a strong personal or family history of colorectal cancer or some types of polyps, as well as previously being diagnosed with inflammatory bowel disease.
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A group of biologists from the Lomonosov Moscow State University and the Russian Academy of Sciences have recently published a paper in PLOS One, about the strange polyps decorating the shells of these snails.
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The Roth net is a small plastic net that is usually used to remove polyps from the colon as well as any other foreign body found in the digestive tract -- namely parasites, Carmo said.
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She and four of her other children could also use the benefits of cannabis oil, she says, having been diagnosed with familial polyposis – a genetic condition that causes polyps and cancer in the colon.
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One recent study found, for example, that prolonged use of antibiotics during adulthood was associated with a greater risk of developing precancerous polyps, possibly because antibiotics can alter the makeup of the gut microbiome.
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Those at higher risk include African Americans, Alaska Natives and people with a family history or a personal history of colon or rectal polyps; such risk factors could require screening at an earlier age.
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Surgery #2 In 2013, for my 21st birthday, I went under the knife to have polyps removed that were causing blockage in my nasal passages and giving me six to eight sinus infections a year.
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Dr. Sears and her group examined six whole colons lined with polyps that had been removed from people with F.A.P. The researchers discovered biofilms — sheets of bacteria that had invaded the mucus covering the colons.
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Looking for colon cancer in young people is like looking for a needle in a haystack — you'd have to screen a lot of people to detect even a small number of cancers or precancerous polyps.
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If further research confirms that bacteria form biofilms on the colon sooner than polyps appear, adding biofilm evaluation or stool analysis could set the stage for less-invasive ways to head off cancer, Sears said.
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Dupixent showed significant improvement on every primary and secondary endpoint in patients with severe chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps who had failed previous treatment with surgery and/or systemic, Sanofi, together with Regeneron, said on Monday.
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He claims he was diagnosed with early-stage colon cancer in 2013 and had polyps removed, but was never offered the opportunity to take formal leave, even as the conditioned flared and subsided over the years.
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But researchers led by Tomás Vega Fernández of the Zoological Station in Naples, diving off the coast of Italian islands such as Pantelleria, have show that individual coral-polyps sometimes collaborate to trap and consume jellyfish.
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The White House did not comment on whether Mr. Trump underwent the procedure, which is conducted to detect polyps, cancer and other ailments, but said that he did not undergo any procedures requiring sedation or anesthesia.
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Although the overall death rate has been dropping for several decades, thanks largely to increased detection and removal of precancerous polyps, deaths among people younger than 55 have increased by 1 percent a year since 2007.
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He said in a statement that rainfall in the area over the past four months was the lowest in 65 years, but that there remained enough polyps, which produce jellyfish, to ensure the population could eventually recover.
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But if temperatures stay high for a long period and the bleaching gets really severe, as was the case in the Great Barrier Reef, then a lot of coral polyps will start to die of malnutrition or disease.
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While the circumstances that led to President Garrett's diagnosis have not been publicly revealed, I do know that colon cancer can nearly always be prevented through detection and removal of its precursor lesions, commonly called adenomas or adenomatous polyps.
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The analysis specifically focused on adults at "average risk," meaning adults who are currently show no symptoms of colorectal cancer and are not at higher risk due to having a personal or family history of colon or rectal polyps.
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Anchored by millions of coral polyps — tiny, soft-bodied animals that create elaborate calcium carbonate skeletons that shelter fish — these reefs cover just 0.1 percent of the sea floor but are home to 25 percent of marine fish species.
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Taking iron supplements can correct the anemia, but Dr. Berliner emphasized that it's important to identify the underlying reason for the blood loss, which may require medical tests like endoscopy or colonoscopy to look for polyps or other problems.
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Yet colon and rectal cancers have been steadily decreasing among older adults in Canada because of increased awareness of the disease and widespread use of screening tests like colonoscopies, which can identify and remove colon polyps before cancer develops.
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At the Mote laboratory in Sarasota, a researcher named David Vaughan has perfected a technique in which coral samples are broken into tiny fragments; the polyps grow much faster than normal as they attempt to re-establish a colony.
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The sperm and eggs released during spawning meet and unite, and the results grow into larvae that search for places where they can settle down and metamorphose into the stone-encased sea-anemone-like polyps that are the adult form.
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During the procedure, a camera connected to a tube called a colonscope will show live footage of the polyps being removed, and is part of Cancer Research UK's "Right Now" campaign, showing real-life stories of patients, carers and staff.
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The other tests that check the stool for signs of cancer are less invasive, safer and easier to do, but they are also less definitive and less likely to detect signs of hazardous polyps before a cancer arises in them.
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Compared to men who didn't eat any yogurt, those who had at least two servings weekly were 19 percent less likely to develop so-called conventional adenomas, the most common kind of polyps found in the colon and rectum during colonoscopies.
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Although this test is the most costly and involved, it is the best not only because it can find an existing cancer, but because it also detects polyps that may become cancer and can be removed during the screening test.
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Each of the "Crochet Forest" works took several years to create, a slow build of collaborative shapes constructed by many hands, much as a coral reef takes incredible amounts of time for its diverse polyps to build their intricate life.
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The polyps secrete a hard exoskeleton of calcium carbonate beneath them that builds up over many years, forming coral reefs that serve as key habitat for tropical sea life and help protect the shoreline by absorbing wave energy from hurricanes and other storms.
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Dupilumab works by blocking IL-4 and IL-13, proteins Regeneron believe to be underlying causes not only of eczema, but of other allergic conditions like asthma and nasal polyps for which the drug has shown favorable results in smaller Regeneron studies.
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I'm not terribly keen on finding out how many wolf testicles and milk-fed polyps he eats on the newest season of Bizarre Foods, and I suspect that with ten seasons behind him, he's getting tired of talking to reporters about that anyway.
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The drug works by blocking IL-4 and IL-13, proteins that Regeneron believes to be underlying causes not only of eczema, but of other allergic conditions like asthma and nasal polyps for which the drug has shown favorable results in smaller Regeneron studies.
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AERD is characterized by the confluence of three disorders that together are known as Samter's triad: First, patients have a hypersensitivity to aspirin and other NSAIDs; second, they have asthma that is often poorly controlled, even on the usual medications; third, they have nasal polyps.
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In a statement, the two companies said they would also accelerate the co-development of dupilumab, a "multi-targeting" drug approved in the United States and Europe to treat eczema and undergoing tests to help treat asthma, nasal polyps, eosinophilic esophagitis and food allergies.
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Risk factors that are unavoidable include getting older; having an inflammatory bowel disease (ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease), or having close relatives (such as parents or siblings) who had colorectal cancer or adenomatous polyps or an inherited cancer syndrome like Lynch syndrome or familial polyposis.
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But it was long, nearly career-ending illness she chose to battle alone without the help of family members, until the doctor she had been seeing to treat her severe vocal cord polyps confronted her about the issue and her mother forced her to tell the truth.
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"We concentrate the larvae and put some of these into LarvalBot to gently squirt the larvae onto dead reef areas allowing it to settle and transform into coral polyps or baby corals," Peter Harrison, director of Southern Cross University's Marine Ecology Research Center, said in a statement.
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Starting with hardy coral polyps that survived past environmental assaults in Kaneohe Bay, the Gates lab is trying to make them even hardier, crossbreeding the corals and testing offspring in water treated to mimic the hotter, more acidic conditions likely to prevail in a future ocean.
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Patrick Frost, who coached at Barry's Bootcamp, gave a harrowing anecdote about waking up voiceless some mornings as a result of teaching 22 classes a week; he later learned he'd developed vocal polyps with some hemorrhaging, and left Barry's for a quieter, less shout-y job.
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It was as though we'd gotten stuck on the underside of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and, standing and waiting on Saturday for the Marni show to begin, like coral polyps drifting in a crazy current, we were encouraged to reflect on the disheveled state of poor old Earth.
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The drug, which accounts for more than half of total revenue, is expected to lose its patents in the next five years To reduce its reliance on Eylea, Regeneron is focusing on Dupixent and has massed up approvals for three major diseases including asthma and nasal polyps since the drug was approved in 2017.
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There is some evidence that young people are more likely to have precancerous polyps that are harder to see and remove during a colonoscopy because of their location in the colon or because they are flat rather than tubular, according to Dr. Otis Brawley, who is chief medical officer for the American Cancer Society.
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But while incidence and deaths among those 275 and older have been declining in recent decades, at least in part because of screening that results in removal of precancerous polyps and early detection of cancer, recent analyses have documented a 275 percent rise in colorectal cancer rates among adults under 250 between 1994 and 2014.
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Increased ocean temperatures as a result of global warming represent the major reason coral reefs are dying around the world, as Brad Plumer reported for Vox: In normal times, the living coral polyps form a symbiotic relationship with zooxanthellae, a colorful type of algae that synthesizes sunlight and carbon dioxide to create nutrients for the reef.
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"If you take into account the fact that people develop colon cancer or rectal cancer over many years, and that there's a step wise progression from having no abnormalities to then having polyps and then developing cancer, this gives us a real opportunity to stop people from ever developing cancer by moving screening ages younger," said Azad, who was not involved with the guidelines.
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