What Rwanda can teach the world about measuring health

Some studies have reported that menopausal hormone therapy raises dementia risk. A new study that analyzed Alzheimer’s-disease hallmarks in autopsied brains indicates the opposite.

From Phase III prostate cancer trials to first-in-human adaptive radiotherapy, Siteman Cancer Center will highlight major advances at the 68th ASTRO Annual…

The gene is found predominantly in Southern Appalachia and may be one of the most powerful cancer-risk mutations ever found.

At the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) Annual Meeting, UT MD Anderson experts showcase their pacesetting research and join colleagues for discussion on the latest advances in radiation oncology.

The August 2026 edition of “Unboxing Cancer News” highlights a transmissible cancer, federal- vs. industry-funded clinical trials, and more.

The US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project.

A personalized mRNA cancer vaccine, developed by Moderna and Merck, significantly reduced the risk of recurrence and spread of high-risk melanoma in a large-scale Phase 3 clinical trial. This breakthr

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The European Commission approved sacituzumab govitecan plus pembrolizumab for treatment-naive, PD-L1-positive metastatic triple-negative breast cancer.

The oral pan-RAS molecular glue ERAS-0015 has received FDA fast track designation for the management of metastatic pancreatic adenocarcinoma.

A new AI for Biological Discovery Seminar Series, presented by the Francis Crick Institute.

Analysis of neighbourhoods in more than 100 US cities finds no evidence that rising numbers of undocumented immigrants are linked with violent crime.

Fred Hutch cancer metabolism expert Dr. Lucas Sullivan discovered that feeding NRF2-mutated tumors too much of a nutrient they crave makes them vulnerable to slower growth and cell death, a vulnerabil...

There are people who change your life in dramatic ways and then there are the people who change your life quietly: the ones who never make headlines. The ones who don’t arrive with trumpets or grand speeches. The ones who simply show up, over and over again, until their presence becomes woven into the fabric of your story. Lately, I’ve been thinking about those people. Maybe it’s because cancer has a way of stripping life down to its essentials. Maybe it’s because when you’ve lived long enough in the land of uncertainty, you begin to see more clearly what actually matters.

California is the first to launch state-branded insulin as Gov. Gavin Newsom tries to disrupt the pharmaceutical industry. But the new CalRx drug label has been slow to reach pharmacies and patients.

The Trump administration is working to implement the president's new order on childhood vaccines, which he publicly faulted for a rise in autism -- even as health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s closed-door research has yet to produce evidence linking...

Patients are waiting longer to start treatment than they did a decade ago, and an experimental pancreatic cancer drug is reaching patients ahead of FDA approval.

PURPOSEExcess weight is a key modifiable risk factor for breast cancer. Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1) promote weight loss and improve metabolic health, but their effect on breast c...

This Viewpoint summarizes the ways in which federal health agencies and state-level safeguards work in parallel to ensure public health and highlights how 3 recent Supreme Court rulings have reduced t...

This Medical News article discusses the emerging advances in Lyme disease diagnostics, prevention, and therapeutics as well as the practical challenges that continue to limit innovation.

Despite repeated warnings of the threat that data centers pose to electric system stability, grid reliability is dangling between old fenceposts that separate hyperscale data centers from effective oversight.