Skin Cancer - Page 16

January 8, 2016

Medicine cabinet and personal health products go digital at CES

You know the rule: It’s rude to peek inside someone’s medicine cabinet.

December 10, 2015

Missouri mother who delayed cancer treatment dies after giving birth

When she was 23 weeks pregnant, Cara Walters Combs, 38, was diagnosed with stage IV melanoma.

December 7, 2015

Melanoma experts optimistic about Jimmy Carter's progress

Former President Jimmy Carter said Sunday that his latest brain scan found no evidence of melanoma, the serious form of cancer that doctors discovered this summer in his liver and brain.

December 2, 2015

Michigan boy, 8, diagnosed with rare skin cancer

An 8-year-old Michigan boy wasn’t sure what was causing an itch on his back, but he and his family didn’t suspect it was cancer.

November 23, 2015

Novartis gets FDA approval for skin cancer drug combination

Novartis AG said on Friday it received the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's regular approval for a drug combination to treat an aggressive form of skin cancer.

October 28, 2015

20th century fashion, trends parallel rise in melanoma

Skin-baring fashions, increased leisure time and acceptance of the idea of a “healthy tan” may have a lot to do with the rising numbers of new melanoma cases each year, suggests a new study.

October 28, 2015

Jessica Alba’s company under fire as customers complain sunscreen doesn’t work

Jessica Alba’s Honest Company has come under fire from customers who say one of its sunscreens doesn’t protect against the sun’s harmful UV rays.

October 28, 2015

New technology performs skin biopsies without the cutting

If you have a suspicious spot on your body, dermatologists usually do a biopsy to determine if it is cancer. But now, doctors are using new technology that is non-invasive and much quicker: confocal microscopy.

October 28, 2015

FDA approves Amgen's injected immunotherapy for melanoma

U.S. health regulators on Tuesday approved Amgen Inc's novel cancer immunotherapy for injection into melanoma lesions and lymph nodes of patients with the deadliest form of skin cancer that returns after initial surgery.

October 28, 2015

US soldiers secretly used as malaria test subjects, book says

The goal was just, the execution anything but: In the 1940s, the US government pulled together an operation designed to find a cure for malaria, which infected some 500,000 American troops during WWII.