How sex hormones might treat certain diseases Androgens, a kind of sex hormone, have been used to treat certain genetic blood disorders for decades.
FDA OKs immunotherapy drugs for bladder, blood cancers TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- U.S. regulators have approved the first drug for bladder cancer that harnesses the body's immune system, the first major advance in three decades against the most common type of bladder cancer.
Precision medicine approach to cancer improves on older methods: study Precision medicine, or the practice of targeting biological markers on a patient's tumors, proved significantly more effective at shrinking tumors and stalling the progression of cancer in the first large-scale analysis of such treatments.
Studies suggest drugs for advanced lung, skin cancers extend patients' lives Two new drugs that help the immune system fight some of the deadliest cancers are helping patients live years longer than older treatments, according to clinical trial results that should further boost confidence in this approach to oncology.
Gerri Willis: I have breast cancer I’m not the kind of person who enjoys talking about my medical conditions but I am talking about this – and here is why.
J&J to stand behind talc's safety at upcoming trials, lawyer says Johnson & Johnson will keep aruging in court that its talc-based powders are safe, an outside lawyer who has defended the company in lawsuits said, even after losing two multimillion-dollar verdicts to plaintiffs who alleged that J&J Baby Powder and Shower to Shower caused ovarian cancer.
Georgia man to complete half Ironman as he battles incurable lung cancer Kirk Smith doesn’t care much for the word “awareness”— instead, he prefers the word “hope.”
Colombia battles world's biggest drugmaker over cancer drug Colombia's government is giving pharmaceutical giant Novartis a few weeks to lower prices on a popular cancer drug or see its monopoly on production of the medicine broken and competition thrown open to generic rivals.
Most sunblocks aren't as strong as they claim Don’t get burned by weak sunblock — nearly half of lotions and sprays tested aren’t as strong as they claim to be, a Consumer Reports study revealed Tuesday.
