FRIDAY, Oct. 14, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Inflammatory breast cancer is rare and has some unusual warning signs that many women don’t realize can signal the disease. Experts at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center shared those symptoms, raising awareness about this aggressive and deadly type of breast cancer.Continue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Teddi Mellencamp, a former star of TV’s “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills,” announced Tuesday that she has a repeat case of melanoma on part of her back where she previously had the skin cancer. Mellencamp, 41, said doctors advised her the currentContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Celebrity Khloe Kardashian announced Tuesday that she had survived a second bout of skin cancer, this time on her face. Kardashian said her “incredibly rare” tumor was removed by Beverly Hills surgeon Dr. Garth Fisher after the reality TV star noticed a bumpContinue Reading
MONDAY, Oct. 10, 2022 (HealthDay News) – While the United States has recently ordered a $290 million supply of a drug meant to treat radiation sickness, federal health officials say that’s not cause for alarm. It’s coincidental that the order of Nplate, made by pharmaceutical company Amgen, comes just asContinue Reading
MONDAY, Oct. 10, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Pancreatic cancer is often fatal, but a molecular test that can accurately distinguish benign cysts from those that could become cancerous may be a key to saving lives. Researchers tested the technology — called PancreaSeq — to see if it could work inContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Oct. 6, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Teen vaping continues at concerning levels, U.S. health officials reported Thursday. About 2.5 million middle school and high school students reported that they had vaped in the past 30 days in 2022, according to new data from the U.S. Centers for Disease ControlContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Oct. 6, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Replacing diesel-powered trucks and the toxic pollutants they spew with electric vehicles would save tens of thousands of U.S. lives, a new American Lung Association report says. The benefit would accrue if all medium- and heavy-duty trucks sold have zero emissions by 2050,Continue Reading
THURSDAY, Oct. 6, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Though it is illegal nationwide to sell tobacco products to anyone under age 21, many New Jersey stores still do, an undercover study revealed. More than 40% of store visits by 18- to 20-year-olds in New Jersey resulted in purchase of cigarettes, cigarsContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Oct. 4, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Breast cancer researchers and clinicians have made tremendous progress in reducing death rates in the past three decades, yet a racial gap persists in the United States. Even with the lower numbers of actual disease compared to white patients, Black women are stillContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Oct. 4, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Football Hall of Famer Terry Bradshaw revealed Sunday that he has been treated for two different types of cancer in the past year. Bradshaw talked about his health while co-hosting Fox NFL Sunday. “Last week on this show, I ran out of breathContinue Reading