WEDNESDAY, Feb. 28, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Rural homeowners face a greater threat from odorless, radioactive radon gas than people living in urban areas, and it’s likely due to the wells they rely on for their water supply, a new study shows. On average, people living in rural communities areContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Feb. 27, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Excess fat around your pancreas could bode ill for the health of your aging brain, new research shows. But maybe only if you’re male: The relationship wasn’t observed among women, noted the team from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J. “In middle-aged malesContinue Reading
MONDAY, Feb. 26, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Polycythemia vera is a rare form of blood cancer with few good treatment options, but that may soon change based on the results of a new clinical trial. An injected experimental drug called rusfertide appears effective in reducing the excess production of redContinue Reading
MONDAY, Feb. 26, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Junk food increases people’s risk of colon cancer, as well as alcohol, lack of exercise and obesity. Unfortunately, many Americans don’t know about these risk factors for colon cancer, a new survey has found. Colon and rectal cancers have been rising in peopleContinue Reading
SATURDAY, Feb. 24, 2024 (HeathDay News) — Colon cancer rates are on the rise among young Americans and Americans of color, so much so that the disease is now the leading cause of cancer death for men under 50 and the second most deadly cancer for women under 50. TheContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Feb. 23, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Black voters support a ban on menthol cigarettes by a wide margin, refuting claims that such a ban would be strongly opposed by Black Americans, a new survey shows. Black voters support by a 37-point margin the menthol ban proposed by the U.S.Continue Reading
THURSDAY, Feb. 22, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A deficiency or absence of viable sperm in a man’s semen could spell danger for him and those closely related to him, new research suggests. Cancers are more likely to occur in these men and their families, reports a team led by Dr.Continue Reading
TUESDAY, Feb. 20, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Researchers hope a new study will end the debate over the best age to start breast cancer screening and how often to do it. “The biggest takeaway point of our study is that annual screening beginning at 40 and continuing to at leastContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Feb. 20, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Women who carry certain mutations in their BRCA1 or BRCA2 genes know they are at heightened odds for breast cancer. Now, Canadian research suggests that for some patients a “risk-reducing” preventive mastectomy may cut the odds of dying from breast cancer later. “TheContinue Reading
MONDAY, Feb. 19, 2024 (HealthDay News) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a novel treatment for advanced melanoma, the most deadly form of skin cancer. Amtagvi, made by Iovance Biotherapeutics Inc., becomes the first cellular therapy approved to treat this form of solid tumor cancer. “Unresectable, orContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Feb. 16, 2024 (HealthDay News) — People who’ve suffered a moderate to severe traumatic brain injury have a greatly increased risk of brain cancer, a new study of military service members finds. Brain cancer is relatively uncommon, occurring in fewer than 1% of people in the United States, researchersContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Feb. 16, 2024 (HealthDay news) — A drug first developed to treat cocaine addiction might also help slow the spread of advanced colon cancer, a new study suggests. The drug vanoxerine appears to suppress cancer stem cell activity by essentially rewiring gene networks critical to tumor growth, the researchersContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Feb. 15, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Mick worked in a factory boiler room in the 1970s, where he was exposed to asbestos. He didn’t think much of it until 2018, when he began to feel ill and dropped more than 40 pounds. The diagnosis: malignant mesothelioma, a rare butContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Feb. 15, 2024 (HealthDay News) — The harms of smoking are many, but new research delivers evidence of another troubling type of damage: Lighting up alters your immune system, leaving you more vulnerable to disease and infections even years after quitting. “Stop smoking as soon as possible,” study co-authorContinue Reading