Common cooking ingredient linked to aggressive form of cancer, doctor reveals
Experts warn against overusing this common cooking oil because it contains a fat that is reportedly linked to breast cancer.
Attorneys general want Congress to prohibit PBMs from owning affiliated pharmacies
Dozens of state attorneys general are urging Congress to pass a law prohibiting pharmacy benefit managers from simultaneously owning pharmacies, arguing such a move would boost competition and create more affordable prescription drug prices for Americans.
For AYAs with Advanced Cancer, Study Finds Serious Communication Gaps about Their Care
Many adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with advanced cancer don’t have discussions with their clinicians about how they want to approach palliative care until the final weeks of life, a study of medical records of nearly 2,000 young patients showed.
Adopting a healthy lifestyle to lower cancer risk
To lower the risk of cancer, it's essential to adopt a healthy lifestyle. This includes not using tobacco products, maintaining a healthy weight, engaging in regular physical activity, eating a balanced diet rich in fruits and vegetables, limiting alcohol consumption, and protecting yourself from excessive sun exposure.
Screening Saves Lives: Working Together To Promote Early Cancer Detection
Since its peak in 1991, the cancer death rate has dropped 34%, averting an estimated 4.5 million deaths due, in part, to earlier detection of the most common types of cancer.
Expanding Definition of Cancer Survivorship Highlights Need for New Standards
A survivorship program at a community health system is utilizing survivorship standards as a roadmap for collaboration across a multidisciplinary approach, as an expert illustrated.
Dietary patterns contribute to chronic diseases, lung health
“Our food choices can have a positive and negative impact on our health, including contributing to chronic diseases,” Mariah K. Jackson, PhD, RDN, LMNT, assistant professor in the medical nutrition program in the College of Allied Health Professions at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, told Healio.
COA Advocates for Biomarker Testing Access, Physician Autonomy in Cancer Care
According to the Community Oncology Alliance (COA), there is a critical need for increased and equitable access to biomarker testing to advance personalized cancer care and improve patient outcomes.1
When middlemen own it all, patients pay the price
These days, the same big health care conglomerate could own your PBM, insurer, pharmacy and even your doctor’s office. Middlemen now control what medicines you can get, what you pay at the pharmacy counter, what pharmacy you can you use and what hoops you must jump through to get the medicine your doctor prescribed.
Why CDC cuts are being called ‘the greatest gift to tobacco industry in the last half-century’
In the earliest ads, Terrie Hall wears a scarf around her throat to cover the artificial voice box that helps her speak.
