Screening for lung cancer can save lives, and there's an urgent need for more screening of people of color. That's one of the takeaways from the newly released "State of Lung Cancer" report from the American Lung Association.
Nov 17, 2023
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Every year 1.3 million lives are lost to cancers caused by smoking tobacco across the UK, US and BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), according to a new study.
Nov 15, 2023
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House fires are many people's worst nightmare. But chemicals created decades ago to protect people's homes from out of control flames opened our front doors to a new menace: toxic chemicals. Ones that we are consistently ...
Nov 15, 2023
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In his speech on Tuesday, King Charles III outlined what measures the government plans to introduce to cut smoking rates and create a smoke-free generation in England.
Nov 13, 2023
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New research from Yale University has unveiled the complex cellular communication system that allows immune cells to mount responses to infection and cancer. The study, published in Nature Methods, reveals how different cells ...
Nov 8, 2023
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Scientists at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) have uncovered one way tobacco smoking causes cancer and makes it harder to treat by undermining the body's anti-cancer safeguards.
Nov 3, 2023
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November is National COPD Awareness Month, which makes this a good time to learn more about living with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD.
Nov 2, 2023
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The Biden administration is encouraging schools throughout the United States to carry naloxone to help prevent fatal drug overdoses in students.
Oct 31, 2023
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Current national guidelines that rely on age and smoking exposure to recommend people for lung cancer screening are disproportionally failing minority populations including African Americans, according to a new study led ...
Oct 27, 2023
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Nutrition is important for your whole body, including those two small organs through which you look at the world.
Oct 20, 2023
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