Category: 5. Health

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…

On June 12th, the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement announced a proposal to roll back federal guidelines to investigate reports of potential workplace dangers in…

That’s the takeaway from a new study done by researchers in the Bowerman Sports Science Center at the University of Oregon, which compared the physiological effects of…