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Top 6 Impactful Medical Technologies
Recent medical technologies help companies comply with new industry standards and government mandates. Although many well-known technological advances benefit the consumer electronics industry, the medical industry has quietly leveraged technology to manage costs, boost profitability and improve patient care. The 6 most impactful recent medical technologies listed here are among those that promise to transform [...]
Some Heartening Headlines About Cancer
According to recent reports, the cancer rates in the United States are continuing to fall. It is thought there has been marked improvement in the screening and diagnosis, as well as treatment that is responsible for lower cancer rates. Efficient screening programs are able to detect cancers early on, making it possible to make accurate [...]
Link Between HIV and Cancer Examined by Study
As early as the 1980’s, the possible link between HIV positivity and malignant cancers has been known. Those demographics which were seen to have particularly low or compromised immune systems, were also seen to have higher than normal levels of cervical cancer, Kaposi sarcoma, and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. And now a new study has examined the [...]
Fish Oil to Help Cancer Patients Combat Weight Loss
One of the many undesirable side effects of cancer treatments such as chemotherapy is the fact that there is a lot of muscle loss/weight loss observed among cancer sufferers. This is due to the fact that chemotherapy tends to rob people of their appetite and also dulls their sense of taste. And according to a [...]
Common Use Items and Their Alleged Link to Cancer – Part 2
In part 1 of the post, we discussed some common household items that have been linked to cancer in the past and whether their connection to cancer is based on hype or fact. Here are some of more of such items: Cholesterol lowering drugs called statins were implicated as increasing cancer risk in a study [...]
Common Use Items and Their Alleged Link to Cancer – Part 1
From time to time, alarmist news pieces link commonly used items to cancer. However how much of this is fact and how much is hype and misinformation born out of vested interests and paranoia? The Chicago Tribune looks at common household items that have been linked to cancer in the past – Antiperspirants, deodorants, and [...]
Caramel Color and Cancer Risk; the Connection Between Balding and Cancer Risk
Different causal relationships keep getting established between cancer and other substances; equally there are seen to be connections existing between cancer and other conditions that we have, the most recent of which are – Recently a consumer group has called for the ban of the caramel food coloring because of its alleged cancer risk. It [...]
Cancer Research and Development that Could Mean Fresh Hope for Sufferers
There has been a significant breakthrough that could hold out hope for those that suffer from the commonest of male cancers, prostate cancer – the genetic code of prostate cancer has been cracked by scientists, and this could well transform the way the disease is treated. This will hopefully enable treatments to be prescribed based [...]
