MONDAY, April 11, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- A wedding band may be powerful medicine against cancer, a new study suggests. Married people seem to have a marked survival advantage, the researchers found: Single men with...
ReadMONDAY, April 11, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- Where they live and how much they earn significantly affects the average American's longevity, a new study suggests. Income may even be a more important factor than geography,...
ReadTUESDAY, April 5, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- People who consume a lot of processed carbohydrates -- think snack foods and sweets -- and sugary drinks may face heightened risks of breast and prostate cancers, a...
ReadFRIDAY, April 1, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- Drinking coffee may cut your risk of colon cancer by as much as 50 percent, a new study suggests. The more you drink, the more you may reduce...
ReadMarch 31, 2016 Reuters For breast cancer survivors, the risk of recurrence may be tied to how many hours they fast at night, a new study suggests. Women in the study were more likely to...
ReadWEDNESDAY, March 30, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- At the end of their lives, most people want peace, as little pain as possible, and some control over how they die, a new research review finds. Researchers...
ReadMarch 30, 2016 The chicken pox is one of those pesky illness that affects kids and pains their parents, but it may offer some positive health benefits later in life, experts believe – a reduced...
ReadMarch 29, 2016 New technology has enabled doctors to administer higher doses of radiation to prostate cancer patients with fewer side effects. However, a new study shows that escalating the dose may not actually help...
ReadMarch 28, 2016 The identification and initial validation of a highly accurate 5-gene pancreatic cancer biomarker panel that can discriminate late and early stages of pancreatic cancer from normal pancreas and benign pancreatic lesions could...
ReadMarch 28, 2016 by Alan Mozes, Healthday Reporter (HealthDay)—Acupuncture can help alleviate the often-debilitating hot flashes that afflict many breast cancer patients, new Italian research says. Noting that hot flashes are a fact of life...
ReadMarch 28, 2016 A large study from Japan found that cancer patients who died at home tended to live longer than those who died in hospitals. Published early online in Cancer, a peer-reviewed journal of...
ReadMarch 28, 2016 by Alan Mozes, Healthday Reporter (HealthDay)—Acupuncture can help alleviate the often-debilitating hot flashes that afflict many breast cancer patients, new Italian research says. Noting that hot flashes are a fact of life...
ReadMarch 23, 2016 Head and neck cancer patients may no longer have to undergo invasive post-treatment surgery to remove remaining cancer cells, as research shows that innovative scanning-led surveillance can help identify the need for,...
ReadMarch 28, 2016 A large study from Japan found that cancer patients who died at home tended to live longer than those who died in hospitals. Published early online in Cancer, a peer-reviewed journal of...
ReadWEDNESDAY, March 23, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- Women who survive childhood cancer after receiving chemotherapy stand a good chance of having children, but the same doesn't appear to be as true for men, a new...
ReadTUESDAY, March 22, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- Race and income differences may affect treatment for some patients with early stage breast cancer, a new study suggests. The study looked at women with estrogen-receptor-positive breast cancer,...
ReadTUESDAY, March 22, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- Do you get a moderate amount of exercise, eat right, keep from piling on fat and avoid smoking? Congratulations, you're among the 2.7 percent of Americans who do...
ReadSATURDAY, March 19, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- A special genetic test might help gauge outcomes for women diagnosed with ovarian cancer, a new study suggests. As researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle explained,...
ReadFRIDAY, March 18, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- Using the generic form of the cancer drug Gleevec could save patients and insurers millions of dollars, a new study suggests. The patent on Gleevec expired in January....
ReadWEDNESDAY, March 16, 2016 (HealthDay News) -- Men with aggressive prostate cancer are more likely to survive if they receive radiation therapy at a hospital that provides the treatment to a large number of patients,...
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