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Given its informal title "the change of life," it's no surprise that menopause, just like any other change, can cause anxiety. However, menopause - the…
A junk food diet is clearly not healthy. Burgers widen our waistlines, raise our cholesterol levels and tighten our arteries. But scientists now think that…
Privately insured people with cancer were diagnosed earlier and lived longer than those who were uninsured or were covered by Medicaid, according to two recent…
Think diseases run in the family? Think again. Have you ever worried about “getting” breast cancer because your mom and aunt both had it? What about Bipolar…
Does your insurance cover the latest cancer drug that costs $159 to make, but sells for $106,000? The cost of cancer drugs has skyrocketed lately…
They are so common no one thinks twice about them: drug ads that tell you about a disease you might have, a pill that could…
In recent years, we've focused heavily on educating our readers about the still relatively unknown role that cancer stem cells play in cancer, both in…
The US government has confirmed that cannabis can kill cancer cells after the drug did so in tests on mice and rats, according to the…
A major UK media outlet has made a bold move by publishing official Adverse Drug Reaction (ADR) data obtained from the government showing that, contrary…
Evolutionary theorist Stephen Jay Gould is famous for describing the evolution of humans and other conscious beings as a chance accident of history. If we…
Researchers from around the world have worked together to try to measure the global burden of cancer and they estimate there were 14.9 million new…
Women who receive the Gardasil (HPV) vaccine may be more likely to be infected with the higher-risk strains of the virus than women who do…