THURSDAY, March 14, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Actress and “X-Men” star Olivia Munn announced Wednesday that she has been fighting breast cancer. Posting on her Instagram account, beside a photo of herself in a hospital bed, Munn wrote, “I was diagnosed with breast cancer. I hope by sharing this itContinue Reading
TUESDAY, March 12, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Women who’ve gone through menopause and hope that supplemental vitamin D plus calcium might shield them from disease may be disappointed by new data. A follow-up analysis of data from the landmark Women’s Health Initiative trial found the supplement combo lowered a woman’sContinue Reading
TUESDAY, March 12, 2024 (HealthDay News) — U.S. military veterans, especially those who served in the Air Force, are at high risk for one of the deadliest skin cancers, melanoma. The risk owes to work hazards associated with service in countries near the equator where ultraviolet (UV) levels are higher. Continue Reading
FRIDAY, March 8, 2024 (HealthDay News) — More Americans exposed to radiation caused by the government would be compensated under a bill that passed the U.S. Senate Thursday. The bipartisan legislation, which would cost an estimated $50 billion, would expand the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) to include more peopleContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, March 6, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Air pollution harms the health of everyone exposed to it, but a new study says communities of color are disproportionately harmed by dirty air. Smog causes nearly 8 times higher childhood asthma rates and 1.3 times higher risk of premature death among minorityContinue Reading
TUESDAY, March 5, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Analysis of a “chemical score” from mouth lesion swab samples might allow patients to skip painful biopsies, getting oral cancers promptly diagnosed in a noninvasive way, scientists report. Right now, dentists and other specialists must send excised tissues from suspicious mouth lesions toContinue Reading
FRIDAY, March 1, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A new British study suggests that the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test, long used to spot prostate cancers, might lead to overdiagnosis in Black men. Researchers now theorize that Black men may have naturally higher levels of the antigen in their blood than whiteContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Feb. 29, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Ultra-processed foods can cause dozens of terrible health problems among people who eat them too often, a new review warns. Researchers linked diets high in ultra-processed foods to an increased risk of 32 separate illnesses. In particular, these foods are strongly tied toContinue Reading
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