WEDNESDAY, Jan. 11, 2023 (HealthDay News) — First Lady Jill Biden is scheduled to have surgery Wednesday morning to have a lesion removed from above her right eye. The lesion was discovered during routine skin cancer screening, the president’s physician Dr. Kevin O’Connor said in a Jan. 4 memo postedContinue Reading
MONDAY, Jan. 9, 2023 (HealthDay News) — For the first time in a decade, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed strengthening standards on fine soot in the air, a known contributor to serious health issues. Under the new proposal, standards for fine particulate pollution, known as PM 2.5, wouldContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Jan. 6, 2023 (HealthDay News) — People should test for the naturally occurring radioactive gas radon in their homes to help prevent ill health, the American Lung Association urges. In some areas, like the state of Connecticut, radon was found to be present at high levels in a quarterContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Jan. 5, 2023 (HealthDay News) – Researchers studying patients with low-grade, slow-growing brain tumors have found that more aggressive surgery may extend survival. The trick to treating low-grade gliomas is to remove as much of them as possible soon after diagnosis, researchers at University of California, San Francisco found.Continue Reading
THURSDAY, Jan. 5, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Cigars are linked with victory, new babies and Winston Churchill, not nicotine addiction, but are they any better for your health than cigarettes? No, say experts who point out the many dangers of cigar smoking. Over the past few decades, through clever marketing,Continue Reading
THURSDAY, Jan. 5, 2023 (HealthDay News) — Herbal cigarettes: They carry a certain “coolness factor” and sound like they might be a healthier alternative to tobacco, but are they really safer to smoke? Not really, experts say. “Even herbal cigarettes with no tobacco give off tar, particulates and carbon monoxide,Continue Reading
TUESDAY, Jan. 3, 2023 (HealthDay News) – Tennis legend Martina Navratilova, who won 59 grand slam titles in her career, announced Monday that she has both stage 1 breast cancer and throat cancer. Navratilova, 66, first found an enlarged lymph node in her neck last fall, her agent Mary GreenhamContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Dec. 27, 2022 (HealthDay News) — The color of his skin and where he lives may influence an American man’s odds of dying from prostate cancer, a new study reveals. Black men and men living in the Western United States face the most dire prognosis, American Cancer Society (ACS)Continue Reading
TUESDAY, Dec. 27, 2022 (HealthDay News) — If you need another reason to quit smoking, researchers have one: your mid-life brain health. Not only does smoking harm lung and heart health, but it increases the chances of middle-aged memory loss and confusion, a new study shows. The likelihood of mentalContinue Reading
MONDAY, Dec. 19, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Black patients with head-and-neck cancers have twice the death rates of white patients, and a new study suggests race itself underlies those differences. “What is unique about our study is it strongly supports the conclusion that Black patients seem to respond to therapyContinue Reading