For a decade and a half, Americans have been guaranteed that no matter their health insurer, certain preventive care like cancer screenings are free of charge.

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Sanders has signed a first-in-the-nation law that prohibits pharmacy benefit managers from operating both retail and mail-order pharmacies, a move designed to eliminate a conflict of interest that has been blamed for boosting the price of medicines and forcing independent pharmacies to close.

I had my yearly mammogram on Wednesday. Mammograms had become extra important to me because I’d had two bouts of breast cancer, the first in 2011 and the second in 2016.

Experts warn against overusing this common cooking oil because it contains a fat that is reportedly linked to breast cancer.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

“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.