Cancer

The Daily Dot
Study suggests e-cigs are just as harmful as tobacco—but there's a catch
The Daily Dot
The study discovered that participants who only smoked e-cigs had significantly lower levels of carcinogens, or agents in causing cancer, in their systems. “Research in humans has shown that those who make a complete switch from smoking to e-cigarettes ...

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Quinn on Nutrition: What about Watermelon?
Circleville Herald
According to an article on this topic in the June issue of Food and Nutrition magazine, one measuring cup of watermelon chunks has just 46 calories plus a healthy dose of vitamins A and C — nutrients that strengthen our immune system and make our skin ...

Personal Liberty Digest
8 super seeds of health
Personal Liberty Digest
Wheat germ helps boost your immune system, promotes cardiovascular health, helps prevent cancer and fights aging effects on skin and hair loss. You can eat super seeds right out of the package or add to your favorite foods for flavor and crunch ...

CNYcentral.com
Health hazards for volunteer fire fighters
CNYcentral.com
"The fumes, the carcinogens that come off of the furniture and in the past we would breathe them in if we didn't have our mask on or if we didn't have a good seal there is a possibility that we can breathe that it," said Caron. Deputy Chief George ...

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WomansDay.com (blog)
6 Things You Need to Know Before You Eat Red Meat
WomansDay.com (blog)
First, know this: The World Health Organization recently classified red meat as a probable cause of cancer, and the American Heart Association recommends limiting it because it is often high in saturated fat, which could contribute to heart disease ...

Europe Is Trying To Ban A Sunscreen Ingredient — And The US Cannot Follow Suit
The Daily Caller
ECHA believes a compound called titanium dioxide – one of only two natural UV blockers that is heavily used in sunscreens, lotions, and cosmetics – should be classified as a suspected carcinogen. Though complex in name, titanium dioxide should be a ...

Health.com
Do These 8 'Miracle' Foods Really Live Up to the Hype?
Health.com
Now-trending avocado oil is another matter, warns dietician Sandra Arevalo, director of nutrition services and community outreach at Montefiore Health System's Community Pediatrics in New York City. "The put a lot of additives in [avocado oil] so we ...

The Atlantic
How the Senate's Health-Care Bill Would Cause Financial Ruin for People With Preexisting Conditions
The Atlantic
Consider, for example, a family with a spouse or parent with cancer whose drug treatment costs thousands of dollars for their drugs. They think they have a victory in that under the Senate plan, their insurance company can't explicitly charge them more ...
“Death” as an alternative to “Obamacare”: “Trumpcare”HuffPost
GOP's Cruel 'Health Care' Bill Goes After Children, The Poor And VeteransThe National Memo (blog)
Senate ACA repeal bill includes tighter Medicaid caps than House versionModernHealthcare.com

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The Packer
Baton passed on nutrition legacy
The Packer
“Leaving a vice president post at Dole to undertake the effort at the cancer institute last year, DiSogra is making the most of her time in the halls of government. She said she has learned how bureaucracy works, even as she tried to avoid becoming ...

Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal
HEALTH LINES: Nutrition crucial, especially for those dealing with cancer
Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal
Nutrition can play a major role in tolerating cancer treatment, when the desire to eat and drink can be decreased. Nutrition recommendations for patients currently in treatment are different from those afterward, but overall, the goal is the same ...

Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal
HEALTH LINES: Nutrition crucial, especially for those dealing with cancer
Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal
Nutrition can play a major role in tolerating cancer treatment, when the desire to eat and drink can be decreased. Nutrition recommendations for patients currently in ... Food provides fuel and “fighting power.” There is no magic food that will provide ...

Kansas City Star
Research Medical unveils $3 million upgrade for radiation alternative to brain surgery
Kansas City Star
The University of Kansas Health System performs advanced radiosurgery with a device called the Novalis Tx, and the Sarah Cannon Cancer Institute at Menorah Medical Center uses a device called CyberKnife. All three blast cancerous or benign tumors and ...

STAT
New ethical lapses alleged in controversial India cervical cancer screening trial
STAT
If so, the patient was referred for further tests and possible treatment before invasive cancer developed. The vinegar method, which turns problem cells white before they become malignant, is an alternative to Pap smears, a standard test in rich ...

South China Morning Post
Wife shed tears but couldn't speak, husband of deceased in blood therapy case tells court
South China Morning Post
The technique was intended as a cancer treatment, but Hong Kong hospitals already had a better alternative, they argued, adding that the process was still at an experimental stage even as a treatment for cancer patients – which the victims were not ...

Exercise, healthy eating, screenings key to men's health
Martins Ferry Times Leader
Exercise. Regular physical exercise can lengthen life and reduce the risk of mortality from cardiovascular disease, hypertension, osteoporosis and some forms of diabetes and cancer. ? Healthy nutrition. Obesity reduces the natural life cycle by nine ...

CapitalGazette.com
Performers raise treatment funds for sword swallower Johnny Fox
CapitalGazette.com
Fox said he didn't accept that prognosis — he plans to keep performing. He is now being treated at Oasis of Healing, an alternative cancer treatment center in Arizona. The treatment is working, he said — he came in on a wheelchair and is up and ...

Texas Public Radio
Losing Weight May Help Keep Breast Cancer From Returning
Texas Public Radio
Being overweight puts women at greater risk for breast cancer. It also increases the chance the cancer will come back. New research shows shedding extra pounds can help protect women under 60 from a cancer recurrence. "I had never had a mammogram.

Longview Daily News
Plants vs. diabetes: Toledo man reverses diagnosis by adopting vegetarian diet
Longview Daily News
... adopting a vegetarian diet. Ellis is a passionate champion of plants-based eating. In an interview, he noted that the top health conditions in the United States — cancer, heart disease and obesity — are all preventable and treatable through diet ...

Secondhand smoke exposure among nonsmoking adult cancer survivors has declined
Science Daily
The researchers used interview and serum cotinine data for 686 nonsmoking adults with a history of cancer from seven consecutive cycles of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. They used data from 82 participants in the 1999/2000 survey ...

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Merck's Keytruda on a Roll: Can it Retain the Momentum?
Nasdaq
Keytruda is presently marketed for the treatment of first-line as well as second-line non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), advanced melanoma and previously treated recurrent or metastatic head and neck cancer (HNSCC). ... instability-high (MSI-H) or ...

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