For more than a year, Diane Hunter, now 72, had been experiencing vague symptoms — pain in her spine and hips, nausea, exhaustion, thirst, and frequent urination. Her primary care physician had ruled out diabetes before finally chalking up her ailments to getting older. But months of intense back pain …
Does Using Aluminium Cookware Increase Your Cancer Risk? Is there a clear, direct link between normal use of aluminium cookware and cancer in people? Aluminium can leach into food under some conditions as some laboratory studies report cellular (genotoxic) effects under extreme or aged-utensil conditions and occupational exposures during aluminium …
The number of people receiving treatment at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center — the renowned research hospital that cares for patients with rare or life-threatening diseases — has tumbled under the second Trump administration, according to government documents and interviews with current and former NIH employees. NIH documents …
They might easily be mistaken for Congressional staffers, reluctant to face the day, but these are among the most accomplished cancer specialists in the country, meeting with Representatives, Senators and staff. Among them: Dr. Elizabeth Jaffee, deputy director of the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, from up the road in …
Karen Knudsen did not grow up in a scientifically centered home. She grew up in a military family. But at an early age, as a “naturally curious” kid, she came to love the experience of discovery and gravitated toward math and science. That led Knudsen to assume she would one …
Doctors, environmental groups and residents are trying to figure out if there is a causal connection between pollutants from the steel industry and rates of cancer in Gary, Indiana. Pollutants you can see, and tiny particulates you can’t, come from different types of industry in the Gary region. But according …
Doctors, environmental groups and residents are trying to figure out if there is a causal connection between pollutants from the steel industry and rates of cancer in Gary, Indiana. Pollutants you can see, and tiny particulates you can’t, come from different types of industry in the Gary region. But according …
Last Updated:April 14, 2025, 19:20 IST While recurring breast cancer can be treated, it may return yet again. Accordingly, proper understanding of this condition and awareness of its early warning signs are imperative to stop recurrence. Recurrent breast cancer happens when the treatment is unable to kill all the cancer …
Joe Grinsteiner is a gregarious online personality who touts the anti-parasitic drug ivermectin. In a recent Facebook video, he produced a tube of veterinary-grade ivermectin paste — the kind made for deworming horses. He gave the tube a squeeze. Then he licked a slug of the stuff, and gulped. “Yum,” …
Cancer researchers examining the use of artificial intelligence to detect early signs of breast cancer. Pediatricians tracking the long-term health of children born to mothers infected with the coronavirus during pregnancy. Scientists searching for links between diabetes and dementia. All these projects at Columbia University were paid for with federal …
