A study linked fine-particle air pollution and other environmental factors to genetic changes in people with lung cancer who never smoked.

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The new terms may expose universities to significant legal risk, according to several experts. “The Trump administration is using the False Claims Act as a massive threat to the bottom lines of ...

Yet in its feverish purge of federal health programs, it has proposed eliminating the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion and its annual funding of $1.4 billion. That’s ...

Radiation may shrink existing metastatic tumors not directly treated. New research shows the opposite effect: Such tumors may also grow.

Todd Heywood, known by his friends as simply “Heywood,” has been an outspoken HIV survivor, renowned investigative journalist, and queer advocate for most of his life. So it should come as no surprise ...

Here's a list of the approved drugs to treat stomach cancer. Click on any of the medications for more info on indications, dosing and side effects. Keytruda is a PD-1 checkpoint inhibitor approved for ...

Violence against women and girls remains one of the most prevalent and pervasive human rights violations in the world. Globally, almost one in three women have been subjected to physical and/or sexual ...

The NIH's National Cancer Institute, which has long benefited from bipartisan support, now faces an exodus of clinicians and scientists.

The devastating cuts to Medicaid and changes to marketplace plans will terminate health coverage for millions of Americans.

Scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have found that two common types of hormone therapy may alter breast cancer risk in women before age 55. Researchers discovered that women treated ...

Women who used at-home test kits were more than twice as likely to complete screening than those who received only telephone reminders.