Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey
Pancreatic cancer is expected to become the second most common cause of cancer-related death in the United States in 2020, overtaking deaths from breast and colon cancers, according to new research.
The disease, which claimed the lives of both Steve Jobs and Patrick Swayze, is set for a ‘startling’ rise.
Currently, the top three causes of cancer-related death in the United States are lung, colorectal and breast cancers.
Pancreatic cancer is fourth, followed by prostate and liver cancers. Continue reading
When most of us look at our hands, we might notice that we need to trim, clean, or stop biting our fingernails, and that’s about it.
Eating grapefruit, bananas, fish and cheese could help patients suffering one of the most common lung conditions in Britain, say scientists.
Around half of the 80,000 deaths a year attributed to drug overdoses in America are caused by medication, new figures suggest today.
The Food and Drug Administration has just loudly re-endorsed perhaps the oldest truth in science—that the dose makes the poison. Paracelsus, the father of toxicology, told us 500 years ago, “All substances are poison. There is none which is not a poison. The right dose makes the difference between a poison and a remedy.”
Federal officials aren’t required to say which restaurants served the tainted hamburger linked to the largest recall of its kind in six years. And they don’t have to tell consumers what type of restaurant dished up meat recalled by Detroit’s Wolverine Packing Co., either — whether it was a sit-down diner or a fast-food joint, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service. 
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For cancer patients, life can be full of worry, pain and the stress of needing to take time off from a job. On top of that, many are struggling with a huge jump in the average price tag for branded oncology treatments, which have doubled to $10,000 per month in just a decade. During the same period, the consumer price index has increased by 23 percent.
Cancer drug prices have doubled in the past decade, from an average of $5,000 per month to more than $10,000.
Growing tomatoes has given gardeners a headache for generations.
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When Victoria Caras was battling thyroid cancer, she created a detailed spreadsheet of the various charges showing up on her medical statements so she could figure out the true cost of her medical care.
So-called “healthy” cereals are the worst foods you can possibly eat at the start of the day.
Earl Harford, a retired professor, recently bought a month’s worth of the pills he needs to keep his leukemia at bay. The cost: $7,676, or three times more than when he first began taking the pills in 2001. Over the years, he has paid more than $140,000 from his retirement savings to cover his share of the drug’s price.