(Medical News Today) – The result marks the first major advance in the treatment of advanced bladder cancer for 30 years, note the researchers, who report their findings...
(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...
(Health24.com) – New screening guidelines for lung cancer could save tens of thousands of lives, but the CT scans involved will be costly, a new study has found. Projections...
(Austrian Tribune) – A new study has revealed that breast cancer risk significantly increases due to exposure to everyday chemicals. The study found that vehicles,...
[WebMD] TUESDAY, April 15, 2014 (HealthDay News) — A new blood test may one day help predict the recurrence of breast cancer and also a woman’s response to breast...
YURI KAGEYAMA, AP Business Writer TOKYO (AP) — A U.S. jury ordered Japanese drugmaker Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. and its U.S. counterpart, Eli Lilly and Co., to...
MARIA CHENG, AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — Air pollution kills about 7 million people worldwide every year, with more than half of the fatalities due...
Special to the NNPA from The Florida Courier For Averi Anderson, seeing more African-Americans participate in clinical trials is personal. The 60-year-old breast cancer survivor said...
LYNN ELBER, AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Veteran TV newsman Tom Brokaw has been diagnosed with cancer, NBC News said Tuesday. The Mayo Clinic...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Although Black women are twice as likely as White women to die from cervical cancer, Human Papillomavirus...
