FRIDAY, Aug. 15, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Folks fighting an addiction can boost their chances of success if they also drop the smokes, a new study says. Addicts who quit smoking have up to 42% better odds of recovery, researchers reported Aug. 13 in JAMA Psychiatry. These results indicate thatContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Aug. 14, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Artificial intelligence (AI) is being touted as a means of improving doctors’ effectiveness, but the new tool might dull their skills in some instances, a new study argues. Specifically, doctors became worse at performing colonoscopies after AI started assisting them, researchers reported Aug.Continue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 13, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A person’s own voice might soon be a means of detecting whether they’re suffering throat cancer, a new study says. Men with cancer of the larynx, or voice box, have distinct differences in their voices that could be detected with trained artificial intelligenceContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Aug. 12, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A new vaccine aimed at a common cancer gene mutation could help stop aggressive pancreatic cancers from coming back, a small clinical trial suggests. Pancreatic cancer is one of the most lethal cancers, with a five-year survival rate of about 13%, according toContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Aug. 7, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Wildfires that tore through Los Angeles early this year may have caused hundreds more deaths than official reports show, new research suggests. While the fires were said to have taken 31 lives, a study published Wednesday in the Journal of the American MedicalContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Aug. 7, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Automatically mailing a stool test kit to people’s homes might be the best way to boost colon cancer screening among younger adults, a new study says. More 45- to 49-year-olds went ahead with cancer screening when they received an unsolicited stool test kitContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 6, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Needless fear of hair loss and brittle, discolored nails caused by cancer treatment might lead many patients to avoid or delay life-saving treatment, a new pilot study says. Many people misunderstand how common these side effects are during cancer treatment, according to findingsContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 6, 2025 (HealthDay News) — There’s been a steep increase in colon cancer cases among adults 45 to 49 in recent years, and that’s a good thing, experts say. This upsurge means that more colon cancers are being caught at an earlier, more treatable stage, thanks to aContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Aug. 5, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A recently approved leukemia pill also might help some patients diagnosed with a deadly bone marrow disorder, a new pilot study says. About 3 in 5 patients with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) responded to treatment with olutasidenib (Rezlidhia), which the U.S. Food and DrugContinue Reading
MONDAY, Aug. 4, 2025 (HealthDay News) — In a small new study, a handheld saliva-sampling device successfully detected breast cancer 100% of the time, researchers said. The study only involved 29 saliva samples, and more research is needed. However, the results remain “very exciting because this device could improve accessContinue Reading
MONDAY, Aug. 4, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Findings from a study in mice suggest that using a common artificial sweetener, sucralose, could hamper certain immunotherapy treatments in cancer patients. However, for folks reluctant to give up the ubiquitous sweetener, the same team of scientists may have found a way aroundContinue Reading
FRIDAY, August 1, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Men diagnosed with what are known as Grade Group one (GG1) prostate tumors are often told they don’t require treatment, only “watchful waiting,” because GG1 cancers are at low risk of spreading. There’s even been talk among experts of not calling GG1 tumorsContinue Reading
FRIDAY, August 1, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Folks who smoke a lot of marijuana could be facing a more than four-fold odds of developing an oral cancer, new research suggests. “Cannabis smoke contains many of the same carcinogenic compounds found in tobacco smoke, which have known damaging effects on theContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Aug.1, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Someday, you might apply a small patch onto your skin to find out whether that odd little spot is a cancer or not. That’s the hope from a new technology being developed by researchers at the University of Michigan. The tiny silicone patch isContinue Reading