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Doctors from across the world gathered at this year’s American Thoracic Society International Conference in San Diego to present research on various respiratory diseases and conditions. Of the topics discussed, presentations on asthma, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis treatments and obstructive sleep apnea made up several of the top headlines from...

Top news from ATS 2024 International Conference: IPF treatments, asthma therapies

New techniques improve accuracy — and patients’ lives. Radiation therapy has been around since the beginning of the 20th century, when Marie and Pierre Curie began experiments on the impacts of radium on human cells. But if you’re familiar with Marie Curie, you may also know that she died from a condition caused by long-term exposure to radiation. And if you find that confusing, you’re not alone: Radiation damages and destroys cells… but that includes cancer cells.

Getting Radiation Therapy? Here’s What You Should Know

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Does herpes virus human cytomegalovirus (hCMV) cause glioblastoma (GBM)? This is the aggressive, incurable brain cancer that Senator John McCain died from in 2018 and Senator Ted Kennedy almost a decade earlier in 2009. There is reportedly a link, but not yet confirmed as an official cause, however a study out of France, published in March, has made a mark in further analyzing the potential cancer-causing virus.

Herpes Virus Can Cause The Brain Cancer That Took Senators Ted Kennedy and John McCain, New Findings From Respected Medical Researchers

Editor's note: This article was originally published on June 22, 2022. It has since been updated. A woman diagnosed with stage 4 bowel cancer that had spread to her ovaries and her liver, was given three months to live in January 2020. Instead, she is celebrating, having received a new lease on life. Long before Caroline Guy was given an official cancer diagnosis, the 56-year-old knew something was wrong. "I felt sluggish, I just didn't feel right. My stomach was swollen," she told Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust. However, in June 2019, a doctor in Spain dismissed her symptoms as menopause. "I'd googled my symptoms and I actually asked him outright if I had bowel cancer and he said no," Guy revealed.

Woman given three months to live after a cancer diagnosis is stunned to hear she is now in remission

Metformin, a medication commonly used to treat type 2 diabetes, helps the body regulate sugar in the bloodstream. Part of the class of drugs known as biguanides, metformin reduces the amount of sugar you absorb from food and the amount produced by the liver. Metformin also impacts the way the body will respond to insulin, the natural substance that regulates blood sugar levels.

Diabetes Drug Metformin Investigated for Cancer Prevention Use

Cannabidiol (CBD) gummies can take up to 2 hours to start working. Unlike other CBD consumption methods, such as vaping, your body needs to digest and metabolize edibles before you can feel their effects. Factors like your individual biology and what you eat before taking CBD gummies may speed up...

How Long Does It Take for CBD Gummies to Work?

Pancreatic cancer can cause back pain that spreads from the abdomen. It often affects the middle of the back and may feel like a dull ache. For some people, the pain may come and go. Pancreatic cancer causes different symptoms, including back pain. Back pain can have many possible causes,...

What to know about pancreatic cancer and back pain

Bone cancer is a rare type of cancer, which can go undetected for some time before being diagnosed. Although benign (non-cancerous) bone tumors are more common than malignant (cancerous) bone tumors, malignant bone cancer can be an aggressive cancer, and some types grow quickly. Quick progression makes early detection and treatment all the more important.

Bone Cancer Without Knowing: How Long Can It Go Undiagnosed?

The signs that thyroid cancer has spread can vary depending on where in the body it has traveled to. Thyroid cancers often spread to the nearby lymph nodes and the lungs, bone, brain, and liver. For all types of thyroid cancer, early detection and personalized treatment plans are crucial for...

What are some signs that thyroid cancer has spread?

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Helen Bailey, a 26-year-old woman from Alabama, is hoping her stage four skin cancer diagnosis will encourage others to protect themselves from the sun and get checked annually by a dermatologist, as a cancerous mole on her back turned into 20 tumors spread across her body.

26-Year-Old Woman, Whose Mole Developed Into 20 Tumors, Urges Skin Cancer Screenings After Stage Four Melanoma Diagnosis

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Here's all you need to know about this type of tachycardia that starts in the lower chambers of the heart and could be a medical emergency.

All About Monomorphic Ventricular Tachycardia

Every night when Carol McGachie went to bed she felt like she was being hit by electric shocks. She would pace up and down while intense tingling pains went up her legs and down her arms. The mother-of-two from West Lothian couldn't sleep a wink with the pain. When she...

I felt like I was getting electric shocks - then found out it was cancer

He explained in a video post, “The day after that I just went downhill [with a] swollen knee, although I thought that was because my knee was injured from a stack when I was in Hobart running some trails. “[I had] really bad body aches and sweat, and everything...

38-Year-Old Man’s Swollen Knee and Body Aches Led To Stage 4 Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma Diagnosis, Now He’s Urging Others To Get Symptoms Checked As Cancer ‘Doesn’t Discriminate’

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California regulators just stopped AT&T from pulling the plug. California’s Public Utilities Commission on June 20 rejected AT&T’s application to stop providing landlines and other services in areas where there is no other option.

Still Need Your Landline?

Learn about atypical chronic myeloid leukemia (aCML), a rare, aggressive form of the condition, and what to expect for symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment.

What Is Atypical Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (aCML)?

FluMist (influenza vaccine live, intranasal) is a vaccine that helps prevent the flu. The drug comes as a liquid that a healthcare professional sprays into your nose. You usually receive it once per flu season. FluMist is used in adults and certain children to help prevent the flu, also known...

Dosage Details for FluMist

Denver, CO

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A dangerous drug that is being mixed into fentanyl is causing those who inject it to develop a rash of sores that resembles a case of flesh-eating bacteria. People experiencing homelessness around Denver can sometimes be seen with these bloody, weeping wounds. I recently mentioned this phenomenon to a fentanyl user who told me about the xylazine connection.

Denver homeless people suffer sores as xylazine enters fentanyl supply

A cancer patient said he owed his life to the regular screening that led to his early diagnosis. Geoff Le Gallez, 73, was referred for investigations after a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) blood test in 2023 gave cause for concern, despite him having no symptoms. Further tests showed his prostate was...

Cancer patient urges take-up of regular screening

43-year-old actress Olivia Munn, after she was diagnosed last year with breast cancer, underwent a hysterectomy, removing her uterus, with additional surgeries to remove her fallopian tubes and ovaries (oophorectomy) to avoid taking an estrogen-suppressing drug, but is surgery enough to keep the disease from coming back?

Actress Olivia Munn, 43, Opted for Surgery to Avoid Taking an Estrogen-Suppressing Drug– Hysterectomy Often Not Enough to Keep Hormone-Fueled Cancer from Coming Back?

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Since his diagnosis with incurable Stage IV brain cancer in 2023, Australian doctor Richard Scolyer revealed that he has been cancer-free for a year after undergoing a world-first treatment based on his own research on immunotherapy to treat melanoma, a type of skin cancer, according to BBC. Last year, following...

Doctor Is Cancer-Free Following World-First Treatment He Developed

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How to Prepare for Radiation Treatment

Radiation therapy is an outpatient treatment that targets and kills cancer cells while minimizing damage to healthy tissues. Here’s what you can expect. Radiation treatment, also...

How to Prepare for Radiation Treatment

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