The diagnosis of a suspected lung, head, and neck cancer called NUT carcinoma should include additional testing capable of detecting gene fusions that are definitive markers of the disease, according ...

Half of the $10 billion each year will be distributed evenly across states that have applied for it. The other half can be distributed by the administrator of the federal Centers for Medicare & ...

For any sarcoma treatment, Schaub and her radiation oncology colleagues consider proton therapy on a case-by-case basis and take many factors into consideration, including the location of the tumor.

Here's a list of the approved drugs to treat stomach cancer. Click on any of the medications for more info on indications, dosing and side effects. Keytruda is a PD-1 checkpoint inhibitor approved for ...

World Brain Day or International brain day is a global healthcare event observed on the 22nd of July every year, commemorating the awareness of brain diseases. Neurological disorders remain the ...

Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapies involve taking immune cells, called T cells, from a patient and engineering them to make a protein that lets them recognize and attack the patient’s ...

What makes SPF makeup and tinted sunscreen less protective than regular sunscreen? This boils down to the quantity of sun protective ingredient. Looking at pure sunscreen, you can see that the ...

A study linked fine-particle air pollution and other environmental factors to genetic changes in people with lung cancer who never smoked.

The tax and spending bill cuts more than $1 trillion from Medicaid, the public health insurance program for people with low incomes that’s jointly funded by states and the federal government. Under ...

Radiation may shrink existing metastatic tumors not directly treated. New research shows the opposite effect: Such tumors may also grow.

Violence against women and girls remains one of the most prevalent and pervasive human rights violations in the world. Globally, almost one in three women have been subjected to physical and/or sexual ...

Yet in its feverish purge of federal health programs, it has proposed eliminating the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion and its annual funding of $1.4 billion. That’s ...