Rising air pollution, changes in hormone levels, immune system imbalances and longer life expectancy are increasing the risk ...

On Valentine's Day, about 50 people marched through downtown Maple Ridge, then held a healing circle, to remember and bring ...

Was it simply a fluke that he kept treating strikingly young patients? Or was his practice one tiny data point in a larger trend? He found his answer after sifting through national health data: ...

The American Cancer Society's annual cancer trend report shows cancer mortality is decreasing but cancer rates are increasing in young adults and women.

Broken hips kill as many women as breast cancer thanks to weakened bones, so why is no one testing those who are most at risk ...

Women over 50 who drink two or more diet sodas or any kind of artificially ... This includes poor diet, lack of exercise, and ...

February is American Heart Month, a time when everybody is encouraged to focus on their cardiovascular health. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, heart disease is the leading ...

This guest essay reflects the views of Dr. Richard Barakat, physician-in-chief at the Northwell Health Cancer Institute.

Objectives To investigate the sex-specific association between smoking and lung cancer. Design Systematic review and meta-analysis. Data sources We searched PubMed and EMBASE from 1 January 1999 to 15 ...

An increase in cancer mortality among men was reported for two of the seven cancers included in the report: liver and pancreatic. Among women, cancer mortality increased for four of the 10 cancers ...

The association between longstanding smoking and frontal lobe atrophy remained after additional adjustment for dementia (OR 2.50; 95% CI 1.38 to 4.56). In this population-based sample of women ...