A woman with terminal cancer brought a lawsuit for negligence against two companies: Colgate and Johnson & Johnson. The jury from Alameda County, California found that products produced by the two companies probably caused the woman’s terminal cancer. As...
A recent study from an environmental group revealed that human drinking water is polluted with nitrates. Nitrates are a type of acid that can be poisonous. According to the study, these nitrates have been linked to causing cancer and...
Most people know that cancer treatment works by making tumors in the body smaller. Unfortunately, most of the time, it is impossible for cancer treatment to eliminate the tumor entirely. There is also always a good chance that the...
Watson Health is a business division of IBM that uses technology to analyze data and improve public health. One way they are trying to improve health with this technology is by studying cancer. At the yearly meeting for the...
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention says that nearly 80 million Americans are currently infected with human papillomavirus (HPV), and about 14 million become newly infected each year. Eight out of ten women will contract HPV in their...
Sixty doctors and pharmacists have been charged by federal prosecutors for illegally giving patients opioid prescriptions, The prosecutors say this is the biggest bust of its kind in United States history. The doctors have been charged for a number...
The U.S. has recently seen a major breakthrough in cancer treatment called immune checkpoint inhibitors. These inhibitors basically tell the immune system which cells in the body to attack as they point them towards cancerous cells. However, these new...
John D. was diagnosed with terminal, stage 4 cancer after a fluid-filled sac on his neck grew into hard, 10cm lump. His doctors suggested he begin aggressive rounds of radiation and chemotherapy to save his life, but John wasn't...
Researchers at Johns Hopkins are developing a new method called ImmunoMap, a digital map that compares different types of T-cell receptors, the “antennas” found on the surface of T-cells that identify foreign substances in the body to trigger an...
A study published in the Journal for Immunotherapy of Cancer showed that a new colorectal cancer vaccine could help patients to fight their disease. The drug has passed a phase one trial which sought mostly to evaluate...
