Health & Medicine

WASHINGTON, July 15 — A major new study, described as the largest of its kind in the United States, has found that…

SHANGHAI, July 15 — The figure that matters: 1.1 million new gastric cancer cases and 768,000 deaths each year, according to GLOBOCAN…

MANILA, July 15 — For women across the Philippines and the wider region facing hormone receptor-positive breast cancer, a medication called tamoxifen…

LONDON, July 15 — For the roughly 12,000 people in the US and 3,200 people in the UK diagnosed with glioblastoma each…

NEW YORK, July 15 — 1977. That is the year the U.S. Food and Drug Administration first approved tamoxifen. Nearly five decades…

WASHINGTON, July 15 — A large-scale U.S. study reported today shows a nearly four-times higher risk of lung cancer for heavy cannabis…

SAN DIEGO, July 15 — A molecular pathway that has frustrated cancer researchers for decades is finally giving up ground, one drug…

LONDON, July 14 — The financial and emotional toll of caring for a brain cancer patient is severe, and data from the…

OVIEDO, July 14 — Against this backdrop of accelerating longevity research, a Spanish biochemist whose work has fundamentally reshaped how scientists understand…

LONDON, July 14 — The shift is this: one man’s hypothesis, now over three decades old, still drives the most promising treatments…

NEW YORK, July 14 — A drug discovered on a remote Pacific island more than half a century ago is quietly reshaping…

TOKYO, July 14 — Eisai Co., Ltd., the Japanese pharmaceutical firm with a history in neurology, finds its Alzheimer’s strategy at a…

LONDON, July 14 — Two hundred and thirty years ago this May, an English country doctor looked at the hands of a…