A new paper in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute indicates that disruptions in health care due to the COVID 19 pandemic may increase breast cancer deaths. In March 2020 public health measures...

A new study published by Wiley early online in Cancer, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, has identified unmet social needs in women with gynecologic cancer that could be addressed...

Babies younger than four weeks old, called neonates, were once thought to not perceive pain due to not-yet-fully-developed sensory systems, but modern research says otherwise, according to researchers...

Many people instinctively associate mucus with something disgusting, but in fact, it has incredibly many valuable functions for our health. It keeps track of our important intestinal flora and feeds the...

Weight-loss wonder drug that blitzes body fat may also reduce risk of heart attacks and strokes Rybelsus is a daily pill for obesity and diabetes, approved for use in UK last year It cuts calorie intake...

Flavoring can change how the brain responds to e-cigarette aerosols that contain nicotine, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers. Andrea Hobkirk and her team used functional magnetic...

For the first time, Rutgers scientists have used a diagnostic technique in the opioid addiction field that they believe has the potential to determine which opioid-addicted patients are more likely to...

A new class of drugs that inhibits a ‘master switch’ involved in the vast majority of cases of mantle cell lymphoma (MCL), a fatal subtype of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, has been discovered...

When Dr. Amy MacNeill was in graduate school, the grandniece of one of her colleagues was diagnosed with rhabdomyosarcoma, a type of cancer that affects muscle tissue. Of the sarcomas that affect children...

Patients with chronic kidney disease and Type 2 diabetes who took the experimental drug finerenone were about 30% less likely to develop the heart rhythm disorder atrial fibrillation (AFib) than those...