Cancer patients are being offered a range of free beauty treatments under a deal between a hospital and a college. People having treatment at North Wales Cancer Treatment Centre in Denbighshire can have two evening sessions with beauty therapy students. The pampering at Coleg Llandrillo Cymru’s...

Your Brain After Chemo: A Practical Guide to Lifting the Fog and Getting Back Your Focus by Dan Silverman, MD, PhD and Idelle Davidson This insightful book provides readers with invaluable information about “chemo brain,” the cognitive impairment that often follows chemotherapy. Dr. Silverman...

(Reuters) – A small, early-stage trial of a therapeutic brain cancer vaccine developed by ImmunoCellular Therapeutics Ltd showed that nearly half the patients were alive without their cancer worsening 18 months after diagnosis. The Phase 1 trial involved 16 patients with glioblastoma multiforme,...

The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) is the world’s largest voluntary health organization dedicated to funding blood cancer research, education and patient services. LLS’s mission is to cure blood cancers including leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease and myeloma, and improve...

The Vattikuti Urology Institute has performed more than 5,000 robotic surgeries and counting. More than any other hospital in the world. It is a comprehensive clinical, research and teaching institute that consistently ranks among the best in the nation. The institute uses the daVinci Surgical system...

Last year, the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer classified tanning as a definite human carcinogen, putting it in the same category as smoking. New York health officials are now ramping up their regulation of more than 2,000 tanning salons and gyms offering...

Wearing an electronic medical emergency alert bracelet and CARE memory band can save your life. As we grow older we develop more medical conditions and tend to take more prescriptions. Today seniors can carry their medical information in a bracelet that they wear on their wrist. It is called a CARE Memory...

This research is the latest to suggest that Concord grape juice may be of value in maintaining breast health by suppressing oxidative stress and inhibiting DNA damage to cells that can lead to the initiation of cancer, or in helping to slow the progression of breast cancer by slowing the multiplication...

When you’re looking for the best sunscreen that guards against ultraviolet A and ultraviolet B radiation which can help shield you from sunburn, wrinkles, and certain skin cancers–choose well. Consumer Reports tests of 12 sunscreens found four sprays (available to subscribers), including...

Partners in Animal Health was established in 2005 by Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine. The program’s mission is to improve animal health and well-being through the creation and distribution of innovative educational materials for veterinary professionals and animal owners.