Governments around the world are leaving hundreds of millions of cancer patients to suffer needlessly because of their failure to ensure adequate access to pain-relieving drugs, an unprecedented new international survey reveals.
Read more →Governments around the world are leaving hundreds of millions of cancer patients to suffer needlessly because of their failure to ensure adequate access to pain-relieving drugs, an unprecedented new international survey reveals.
Read more →SUNDAY, Sept. 30 — Researchers who discovered an immune system mechanism that seems to provide some people with a natural defense against HIV say their finding could help efforts to develop a vaccine for HIV/AIDS.
In most people, HIV infection…
SUNDAY, Sept. 30 — Blocking a single protein might stop the age-related decline of the immune system that reduces people’s ability to benefit from vaccinations and leaves them vulnerable to infectious diseases and cancer, a preliminary new study…
Read more →SUNDAY, Sept. 30 — Mailing sun-protection kits, which contain information about the dangers of exposure to the sun’s harmful UV rays and skin cancer, as well as swim shirts, hats and sunscreen, increases the number of people who take steps to…
Read more →Actress Maura Tierney was set to star in a new TV show – NBC’s Parenthood – when doctors diagnosed her with breast cancer in 2009. Tierney, who played a nurse on ER for 10 years and starred opposite Jim Carrey in Liar, Liar, immediately thought, …
Read more →Not as limber as you should be? Your exercise regimen could be helping—or making things worse
Read more →Not as limber as you should be? Your exercise regimen could be helping—or making things worse
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Read more →The results of a new phase III trial show that crizotinib, a targeted therapy, is a more effective treatment than standard chemotherapy for patients with advanced, ALK-positive lung cancer, researchers said at the ESMO 2012 Congress of the European Soc…
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