FRIDAY, Aug. 9, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Radiation therapy following surgery can keep breast cancer from returning for up to 10 years, a new study claims. The study supports the current standard of care for early-stage breast cancer, which involves surgery followed by radiation therapy, researchers said. “Our evidence suggests thatContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Aug. 8, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Deaths among Americans dropped by a significant 6.1% between 2022 and 2023, a new government tally finds. Much of this was due to COVID-19’s ebbing effect on deaths. During the pandemic, over a million Americans lost their lives, and in 2021 it wasContinue Reading
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THURSDAY, Aug. 8, 2024 (HealthDay News) — People who use marijuana at high levels are putting themselves at more than three times the risk for head and neck cancers, new research warns. The study is perhaps the most rigorous ever conducted on the issue, tracking the medical records of overContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 7, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A new immunotherapy is now available to treat a rare soft tissue cancer that most frequently occurs in young men. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted accelerated approval to Tecelra (afamitresgene autoleuecel) to treat synovial sarcoma, which most commonly develops inContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 8, 2024 (HealthDay News) — About 14% of women will develop diabetes while pregnant, a condition known as gestational diabetes. It’s linked with obesity and older age, and the number of cases is growing although they usually resolve by the time of delivery. Now, a new study deliversContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Aug. 6, 2024 (HealthDay News) — David Lynch, who transformed television and film with series such as “Twin Peaks” and movies like “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland Drive,” announced Monday that he is battling the lung disease emphysema. Lynch, 78 and a former long-time smoker, first spoke about his illnessContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Aug. 6, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Screening for cancer saves lives, but a new report shows it comes with a hefty price tag: The United States spends at least $43 billion annually on tests that check for five major cancers. Published Monday in the Annals of Internal Medicine, the newContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Aug. 6, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A person’s lifespan appears to be linked to four specific social factors – marriage, gender, education and race. The interplay between those four factors helps explain differences in lifespan between Americans, researchers report. “There is a complex interaction between social and individual determinantsContinue Reading
MONDAY, Aug. 5, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Depression can lower a woman’s chances of surviving breast cancer, a new study reports. Women with breast cancer and depression are more than three times as likely to die as women without either condition, researchers found. By comparison, breast cancer patients who aren’tContinue Reading
SATURDAY, Aug. 3, 2024 (HealthDay News) — As kids and teens prepare to head back to school, parents might not have protecting their child’s lung health on the top of their to-do lists. But experts say it should be. “A new school year often means a new environment for studentsContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Aug. 2, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Experts have long suspected it, but a new study confirms that folks who vape and smoke tobacco face higher risks for lung cancer than if they’d done either alone. “From a public health perspective, we have always been concerned about dual-use of bothContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Aug. 2, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Too many women don’t know a key warning sign of endometrial cancer, the most common cancer of the female reproductive organs, a new study shows. More than one-third (37%) of women surveyed did not know that postmenopausal bleeding is a key symptom ofContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Aug. 1, 2024 (HealthDay News) — It’s long been known that a daily dose of low-dose aspirin helps keep colon cancer at bay. But new research suggests that those who benefit most are folks whose lifestyles up their odds for the disease in the first place. “Our results showContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Aug. 1, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Cancer rates are rising among Gen Xers and millennials, a new study reports. Successively younger generations are more frequently being diagnosed half of the 34 known cancer types, researchers found. For example, people born in 1990 have two to three times higher ratesContinue Reading