In 2018, breast cancer will be the most common newly diagnosed cancer in the United States, with 286,670 new cases, outstripping lung cancer (in both men and women) by more than 50,000 new cases, according to projections from the American Cancer Society.
Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) treatments are popular among cancer patients; some estimates indicate that as many as half of all patients use some sort of these therapies before and during treatment.
Studies in mice have demonstrated that obesity-induced inflammation contributes to the risk of colorectal cancer, but evidence in humans has been scarce. A new study shows that two inflammatory proteins in the colon increase in parallel with increasing weight in humans.
After two years of double-digit price hikes, the average premium for individual health coverage on the federal health law's insurance marketplace will drop by 1.5% for 2019, the Trump administration said Thursday.
Researchers at the US Military HIV Research Program (MHRP) at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) and SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, NY, have been granted a grant to advance an experimental heroin vaccine through Phase I / IIa clinical trials to assess both its safety and its effectiveness against a morphine challenge.
Most Canadian smokers are in favor of novel policies to reduce tobacco use, according to a national survey by the International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project (ITC) at the University of Waterloo.
A breakthrough in monkey malaria research by University of Otago scientists encouraged the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to fund a special meeting in Dunedin recently.
A new study led by an infectious disease epidemiologist at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine could change the way doctors treat a common sexually transmitted disease.
Researchers at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) have for the first time imaged the structure of a central component of the Ebola virus at near-atomic resolution.
Representing paradigm shift in thoracic surgery, the hybrid operating room combines three techniques into a single appointment eliminating multiple clinical visits for improved patient experience and outcomes.
Carnegie Mellon University researchers have identified a molecule that plays a key role in bacterial communication and infection. Their findings add a new word to pneumococcus' molecular dictionary and may lead to novel ways to manipulate the bacterium and prevent infection. The findings, from the Associate Professor of Biological Sciences Luisa Hiller, are published in the journal PLOS Pathogens.
In the move that may bring huge relief to the patients, multinational pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline Pharma and Abbott have a low-priced second-tier brand of their products which can be introduced into government's flagship Ayushman Bharat health insurance scheme, sources said.
Urging the government to create policy provisions to allow launching of second brands for introduction to the state-run insurance scheme, the US Indian Business Council (USIBC) asked for the government for a safeguard policy mechanism that they are exempted from price referencing.