ScienceHealth Ozempic and Other GLP-1 Drugs May Cut Cancer Risk New research suggests GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic can help prevent up to 10 different obesity-related cancers in people with type 2 diabetes. By Ed Cara Updated July 5, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceArchaeology Ancient Egyptians Tried to Surgically Treat Cancer, Study Finds Evidence from a 4,000-year-old skull suggests ancient Egyptian doctors were handy enough to try surgically removing tumors from their patients. By Ed Cara Published May 29, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceSpace A Planet Just 41 Light-Years From Earth Has an Atmosphere and Is Covered in a Magma Ocean The Webb Space Telescope has uncovered a nearby rocky planet with a volatile atmosphere. By Isaac Schultz Published May 8, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceHealth Woman’s Sudden Blindness in One Eye Turned Out to Be Lung Cancer Her doctors say it's the first case of blindness being the only sign of metastatic lung cancer ever found in someone with no clear risk factors. By Ed Cara Published May 1, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceHealth Scientists Can Now See Inside a Single Cancer Cell A new imaging technique can peer inside the fatty cargo of a tumor cell. By Ed Cara Published April 25, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceHealth How Stress Could Make Cancer Spread Research suggests that stress hormones can cause changes in cells that make us more vulnerable to metastasized cancers. By Ed Cara Published February 23, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceHealth Groundbreaking Cancer Treatment May Actually Raise Risk of Secondary Cancers The FDA is mandating that CAR T cell therapies have a new warning detailing the potential danger, though it still says their benefits outweigh the risks. By Ed Cara Published January 24, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceHealth Study Finds Specific Cancers Could Be Prevented by Exercise Even exercisers who do get cancer seem to live longer than those who are sedentary, according to new research. By Ed Cara Published January 5, 2024 | Comments (0)
ScienceHealth Dry January Could Lower Your Cancer Risk Sobering new research finds that drinking less clearly lowers the risk oral and esophageal cancer. By Ed Cara Published December 28, 2023 | Comments (0)
ScienceHealth Outdoor Work Is Major Cause of Skin Cancer Deaths A WHO report estimates that 1 in 3 non-melanoma deaths annually can be attributed to working outdoors without UV protection. By Ed Cara Published November 9, 2023 | Comments (0)
ScienceHealth Experimental Therapy Fights Brain Cancer with Modified Herpes Virus The treatment appeared to have extended the survival of some people with glioblastoma, a normally incurable cancer. By Ed Cara Published October 18, 2023 | Comments (0)
ScienceHealth Cancer Is Becoming a Bigger Problem for the Young Cancer cases and deaths in people under 50 have significantly climbed worldwide over the past three decades, a new study has found. By Ed Cara Published September 7, 2023 | Comments (0)
ScienceHealth Depression and Anxiety Won’t Raise Your Risk of Cancer, Study Finds A new large meta-analysis has found no significant link between having either condition and an increased risk of cancer in general. By Ed Cara Published August 9, 2023 | Comments (0)
ScienceHealth Breast Cancer Screenings May Cause Overdiagnosis in Older Women, Study Finds New research estimates that many cancer cases caught through screening in women over 70 may ultimately be harmless. By Ed Cara Published August 8, 2023 | Comments (0)
Tech NewsArtificial Intelligence AI Could Be Very Useful for Breast Cancer Screenings, Study Finds A new AI breast cancer screening tool could cut radiologists' work by 44% and diagnose more women than standard screening practices. By Nikki Main Published August 2, 2023 | Comments (0)
ScienceHealth Lung Cancer Pill Cuts Risk of Dying by Half in Major Trial AstraZeneca's osimertinib, in combination with surgery, substantially improved the long-term survival of patients with a common form of lung cancer. By Ed Cara Published June 5, 2023 | Comments (0)
ScienceHealth Scientists Have Created Cancer-Fighting E. Coli Bacteria Genetically engineered E. coli strains killed a variety of different cancer types in mice. By Ed Cara Published May 15, 2023 | Comments (0)
ScienceHealth Experimental Pill Shows Promise Against Leukemia in Early Trial About a third of patients with relapsed or refractory acute leukemia experienced complete remission after taking the drug, known as revumenib. By Ed Cara Published March 16, 2023 | Comments (0)
ScienceHealth A Man’s Prostate Cancer Gave Him An ‘Uncontrollable’ Irish Accent This may be the first reported case of foreign accent syndrome caused by this particular form of cancer, the man's doctors say. By Ed Cara Published February 8, 2023 | Comments (0)
ScienceHealth New mRNA Cancer Vaccine Passes Important Human Trial In patients with advanced melanoma, the vaccine along with immunotherapy reduced the risk of cancer recurrence and death by 44%, the companies said. By Ed Cara Published December 13, 2022 | Comments (0)
