(Fox News) – Some half a million cases of cancer a year are due to people being overweight or obese, and the problem is particularly acute...
(New York Times) – A power device used during uterine surgery in at least 50,000 women a year in the United States risks spreading cancerous tissue and should...
by Stacy M. Brown Special to the NNPA from The Washington Informer Sharon Carter does everything that she can to lose weight. After years of overindulging,...
JOE KAY, AP Sports Writer CINCINNATI (AP) — Devon Still figures it will be the most emotional game he’ll ever play. The Bengals defensive tackle will...
WASHINGTON, DC (AICR) — Two large new studies provide compelling evidence that obesity increases the risk of the most common type of postmenopausal breast cancer...
By Dr. Elaine Batchlor CEO, The New Martin Luther King, Jr. Hospital Special to the NNPA from Our Weekly Every October, people lace up their sneakers...
(Diabetes Insider) – Middle aged women whose skirt size is on the rise could be more prone to breast cancer, according to a study carried out...
(USA Today) – Men have lots of reasons to feel bad about losing their hair. Some worry that going bald makes them look old. Others...
(Daily Mail) – And men who doubled their intake of fruit and vegetables to the recommended five portions a day reduced their risk by nearly a...
Older patients were 28% more likely than younger ones to be hospitalized for treatment of complications following a surveillance colonoscopy, study data shows. (Health Leaders)...
(Irish Times) – Screening for prostate cancer could reduce deaths from the disease by about a fifth, according to a major European study published today...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Johnson & Johnson is asking surgeons not to use a line of devices for performing hysterectomies and removing growths from the uterus...
(HNGN) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Zydelig, a drug to treat patients with three types of blood cancers. Zydelig can be used...
(NBC News) – Most women who get both breasts removed to prevent breast cancer don’t need to do it, and are often motivated by fear,...
(Tech Times) – Pancreatic cancer will become the second deadliest cancer in the United States by 2030 overtaking prostate cancer and breast cancer currently considered as...
By Alma Gill NNPA Columnist Cancer and Romance Dear Alma, My wife died four years ago after a long battle with lung cancer. We had...
[UPI] Patients with cancer who were married at the time of diagnosis live markedly longer compared with unmarried patients, U.S. researchers say. In fact for some...
[THE WASHINGTON POST] An estimated 200,000 Americans quit smoking in the wake of a federally funded ad campaign that graphically showed the consequences of tobacco use,...
[THE NEW YORK TIMES] Think you do just fine on five or six hours of shut-eye? Chances are, you are among the many millions who unwittingly...
[Guardian] Veteran movie critic Roger Ebert has announced that he is scaling back his workload to deal with a recurrence of cancer. Ebert, 70, wrote on his Chicago Sun-Times blog that...
[MSNBC] African-Americans are 25 percent more likely to die from cancer than white Americans are, and the reasons are numerous, including lower socio-economic status, poorer access to health care,...
[News One] A recent study suggests that African-American couples affected by the trials of prostate cancer face emotional challenges that increase the burden of combating the disease. Researchers at the Moffitt Cancer...
