Category: 5. Health

Federal scientists released their annual forecast for Lake Erie’s harmful algal blooms on June 26, 2025, and they expect a mild to moderate season. However, anyone who comes in contact with the blooms can face health risks, and it’s worth remembering that 2014, when toxins from algae…

Erectile dysfunction (ED) is no longer merely a symptom of aging but a physiologic and psychological signal that…

“Eating…

The odds that a patient survives a hospital stay sharply increase if the physician…

Most normal people, when told they have kidney cancer, worry about what that means for their long-term health. I’m not normal. When I discovered I had a 1cm tumor growing on my left kidney, I wondered: “How much is this going to cost me?”
My lack of normality…

Tumors are heterogenous masses of cells that rapidly divide. Many cells have different mutations, functions, and ways to avoid immune cell detection and drive tumor progression. The heterogeneity of tumors is a major obstacle to complete cancer eradication….

In the four months since he began serving as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made many public statements about vaccines that have cast doubt on their safety and on the objectivity of long-standing processes established to evaluate them….

The immune system is central to identifying and eliminating foreign pathogens that enter the body. The innate and adaptive immune responses work together to provide effective immunity against invaders. Specifically, the innate immune system is designed to…

Yesterday, the Common…

In the past 20 years, cancer medicine has been revolutionized by an array of new treatments, ranging from monoclonal antibodies to novel…