Study Reveals Common Weed Killer Raises Cancer Risk by 41%
In 2017, over 800 people filed lawsuits against Monsanto, one of America's top agricultural companies. In 2018, the company was ordered to pay $289 million to an individual who frequently used one of its products. Why? It's weed killers contain glyphosate, a chemical shown to significantly increase the development of cancer. When Dewayne Johnson sued Monsanto last June, accusing their weedkiller...
Adoptive Cell Therapy Shows Success in Treating Incurable Breast Cancer
Nature Medicine recently revealed that a woman with advanced, "incurable," breast cancer is now cancer-free, two and a half years after she received a groundbreaking immunotherapy treatment. According to the report, 52-year-old Judy Perkins was diagnosed with early stage breast cancer in 2003. Although she had a mastectomy, doctors discovered 10 years later that the cancer had spread. She was given...
Three-Decade Long Study Strengthens Connection Between Stress & Autoimmune Disease
A huge study spanning 30 years that analyzed a cohort of over one million individuals determined a strong affiliation among people suffering from stress disorders, like PTSD, and an expanded risk of growing autoimmune sicknesses which includes arthritis and Crohn's disease. Since a lot of us have experienced stress manifesting in physical signs, such as stomach aches, for instance, the...
Why the U.S. Needed Right to Try Law
During his recent State of the Union address, President Trump acknowledged his success in passing the Right to Try Bill. One of the law's namesakes, Matt Bellina, recently began treatments under the law for his ALS. A cancer patient in California with terminal glioblastoma also announced that they began experimental treatments this past November. Needless to say, conversation surrounding...
Researchers Say Immunotherapy Could Treat Deadliest Brain Cancer
Senator John McCain, Senator Ted Kennedy, and Beau Biden are linked by more than just politics. All three of them also lost their lives to glioblastoma, an aggressive brain cancer with only a 10% three-year survival rate. There hasn't yet been an effective way to treat glioblastoma, but scientists are now saying that immunotherapy could help. The small study was...
State of the Union Celebrates “Right to Try Act” — But is it Really a Success?
Last year, President Trump called upon Congress to pass the "Right to Try Act," and this year, he celebrated its passing in his State of the Union address. But it's been nearly nine months since he signed the bill in May, and only two patients have been treated under the law. Even Frank Mongiello, one of the ALS patients...
Why Millennial Cancer Rates Might Be Rising
Although cancer rates in the United States have generally decreased in the past few decades, certain cancers are on the rise, especially in younger people. A study conducted by the American Cancer Society and the National Cancer Institute reveals that adolescent obesity could be the reason. The study was published in Lancet Public Health, and it looked at data from...
Study Reviews Shows Probiotics Might Limit Childhood Antibiotic Use
Antibiotics are important drugs that help your body fight off potentially dangerous infections. But have we come to rely too much on these "miracle drugs?" Overuse of antibiotics in the past decade has created a global increase in antibiotic resistance. Many people develop bacteria that will not respond to antibiotics, and some of them will even die. The results...
U.S. Sees Major Increase in Asbestos Imports
New federal government data released by the U.S. International Trade Commissions revealed that the U.S. has received nearly 2,000 percent more than its previous asbestos imports between July and August. Analyzed by the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) and the Environmental Working Group (EWG), the data shows that by the end of August, the U.S. brought in an alarming...
10 Reasons You Might Want to Join the Celery Juice Craze
Celery juicing is all the rage in 2019. Although for most people the taste leaves something to be desired, they swear on social media posts that they've never felt better. Is this health craze a passing trend, or is this one bandwagon you might want to hop on? Check out these 10 benefits of drinking celery juice to see if...
