Elderly breast cancer patients may be receiving unnecessary radiation treatment, reported Medical News Today. A study published in the journal Cancer followed up on the findings of a 2004 randomized clinical trial.
In a small new trial, a form of treatment based on the body's immune system appears to be helping patients with Hodgkin lymphoma for whom other treatments had failed.
Avril Lavinge, the punk princess, is suffering from a serious health condition that she did not reveal yet. In her twitter, she asks for prayers that her fans did not disappoint.
Blackberries are a delicious little "aggregate fruit" that grow wild on thorny bushes and are cultivated on every temperate continent, including Africa and Asia. Composed of many individual drupelets, each like a small berry with one seed, each drupelet contri…
Dragon fruit, also called pitaya, is the fruit of a cactus that grows in tropical and subtropical areas, including Asia and Latin America. These fruits have a red or yellow peel with green scales, which may be spiny, and tiny black seeds inside a white, magent…
Vitamins are essential constituents of our diet that have long been known to influence the immune system. Vitamins A and D have received particular attention in recent years as these vitamins have been shown to have an unexpected and crucial effect on the immu…
People and families around the world are sending Christmas cards this year in hopes of making a terminally ill 6-year old girl’s holiday season happier and less painful.
The flu vaccine may not be very effective this winter, according to U.S. health officials who worry this may lead to more serious illnesses and deaths.
The benefits for women of taking a daily dose of aspirin to stave off serious illness, such as cancer and heart disease, are outweighed by the risks, scientists have concluded.
