SATURDAY, Nov. 2, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Everyone knows that colonoscopies save lives, but that doesn’t make drinking a lot of liquid laxatives in preparation for the procedure any less daunting. Luckily, one expert has some helpful tips on how to take some of the pain out of the process.Continue Reading
FRIDAY, Nov. 1, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Smokers diagnosed with cancer often shrug and keep lighting up, figuring a few more butts won’t make much difference. They’re very mistaken, a new study finds. Smokers are 22% to 26% less likely to die if they quit following a cancer diagnosis, researchersContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Nov. 1, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Cirrhosis, hepatitis infection and other causes can trigger liver fibrosis — a potentially lethal stiffening of tissue that, once begun, is irreversible. For many patients, a liver transplant is their only hope. However, research at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles may offer patients aContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 30, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A lack of health insurance coverage raises the risk that cancers among Black and Hispanic Americans will be caught too late, a new study suggests. Being uninsured accounts for a significant proportion of racial and ethnic disparities in cancers that are only detectedContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 30, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Pancreatic cancer rates are rising in adults younger than 50, but many continue to believe it’s a disease that only affects the elderly, a new survey shows. Folks in that age range also say they wouldn’t be able to identify early signs andContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Oct. 29, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Artificial intelligence might be able to help doctors detect the prostate cancers most likely to be life-threatening to men, a new study suggests. An AI program successfully identified and outlined 85% of the most aggressive prostate tumors seen on MRI scans of moreContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Oct. 29, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Middle-aged folks facing a colon cancer screening now have a blood test they can choose over a standard colonoscopy. However, the blood test isn’t as effective as colonoscopy at detecting and preventing colon cancer, a new review finds. About two and a halfContinue Reading
MONDAY, Oct. 28, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Most thyroid cancers are slow-moving and, if caught early, curable. But some patients can present with what’s known as an anaplastic thyroid carcinoma (ATC) — a rare and very aggressive tumor with a very poor prognosis. Now, a clinical trial offers new hopeContinue Reading
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WEDNESDAY, Oct. 23, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Women fighting breast cancer can relieve some of their chemotherapy “brain fog” through aerobic exercise, a new clinical trial in Canada suggests. Breast cancer patients on chemo who participated in a regular aerobics class reported that they felt sharper and had better qualityContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 23, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Some rectal cancer patients might be spared surgery and the lifelong need for a colostomy bag if they undergo MRI screening, a new study finds. The scans might accurately predict which patients have a higher odds for cancer recurrence and require surgery plusContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Oct. 22, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Smokers find it easier to quit if they’re automatically offered support, even if they didn’t ask for it, a new clinical trial finds. Quit rates were higher among health system patients placed in an “opt-out” program, in which tobacco cessation medications and counselingContinue Reading
MONDAY, Oct. 21, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A healthy diet can help keep prostate cancer in check, a new study finds. The better a man eats, the less likely his low-grade prostate cancer will progress to a more dangerous state, researchers reported Oct. 17 in the journal JAMA Oncology. ForContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Oct. 18, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Ruined credit scores and big risks for bankruptcy: All part of the long-term financial fallout from the words “You have cancer,” according to two new studies. “These are the first studies to provide numerical evidence of financial toxicity among cancer survivors,” said studyContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Oct. 18, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Intrauterine devices (IUDs) may raise the chances of a breast cancer diagnosis for women who use the hormonal birth control method, but that risk remains low, new research finds. In the study of 150,000 Danish women, published this week in the Journal of theContinue Reading