Patients with certain subtypes of breast cancer may face a higher risk of death from the cancer if they wait more than 42 ...

Bean Chapman is a policy analyst and committee chair for Knox, Anderson and Blount counties for the Tennessee Equality ...

Medically reviewed by Marla Anderson, MD Stomach cancer—or gastric cancer—occurs when cells in the lining of the stomach wall ...

I n addition to their origins as treatment for type 2 diabetes, GLP-1 receptor agonists like Ozempic and Wegovy are often ...

The change limits treatment options for veterans with gender dysphoria, who are up to 20 times more likely to experience suicidal thoughts.

Among other functions, the NK cells (natural killers, a type of lymphocyte forming part of the immune system) have the capacity to detect and eliminate cancer cells. But in some cases they cannot ...

The HPV vaccine, called Gardasil-9 — which has no live virus and is completely non-infectious — protects against the six types of HPV most likely to cause cancer, Eckert says. (These are strains 6, 11 ...

Synthetic Biology is advancing the use of microorganisms as cancer therapies, with scientists engineering bacteria to boost antitumor immunity and deliver ...

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