Medical News
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More than 30 percent of cancers can be prevented by lifestyle changes, the World Health Organization said Friday, on the eve of World Cancer Day.
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Doing just 15 minutes of moderate exercise a day may add three years to your life, a large study in Taiwan has found.
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Chinese University doctors have found a new way to identify advanced lung cancer patients who will benefit most from a drug, paving the way for a blood test and more tailored treatment.
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Coffee has been shown to reduce the risk of skin cancer by helping kill off damaged cells that could otherwise turn into tumors, according to a US study published on Monday.
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Amazing potent tumor-killing agents helped three leukemia sufferers stay cancer-free, say US researchers.
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Roughly one in 10 adults in Hong Kong is a hepatitis B carrier, yet the majority of people here know little about the disease and ignore the need for prevention.
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About 1,000 seriously ill cancer patients can be treated with more expensive life- saving drugs under a HK$68 million subsidy scheme by the Community Care Fund.
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The link between height and cancer risk was present across all cancers with very little variation, the researchers found. As well, the results showed that the risk was similar across different populations from Asia, Europe and North America.
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Androgen, or male hormone, may be responsible for the higher morbidity of liver cancer among men than women, researchers at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) have found.
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In an article in the journal Science, Yale University researchers describe experiments on mice which found nicotine activates neurons to send signals the body has had enough to eat.
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The damage caused by a heart attack had previously been considered permanent.But a study in the journal Nature showed the drug, thymosin beta 4, if used in advance of a heart attack, was able to "prime" the heart for repair.
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Scientists at Queen's University Belfast have won an award for work on frog and toad skins which culd lead to treatments for over 70 major diseases.
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Cancer Research UK scientists have found that counting the number of lung cancer cells circulating in the blood could determine how aggressive the cancer is and predict the best treatment to use.
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Home tests for the human papillomavirus (HPV) could help increase the take-up of cervical screening among women who do not respond to screening invitations, new research shows today.