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FDA cracks down on companies peddling fraudulent cancer treatments

June 5, 2018 at 2:08 a.m.

The Food and Drug Administration ordered 14 companies to stop making bogus claims about cancer cures - including asparagus extract, exotic teas and topical creams for pets - or face...

Colon cancer rates rising sharply among Gen X and millennials

June 5, 2018 at 6:58 p.m.

Rates of colorectal cancer, which overall have been declining for decades in the United States, are instead rising sharply among young and middle-aged adults, according to a new study that...

Cancer treatments that save children’s lives exact a heavy price years later

June 8, 2018 at 1:23 p.m.

When Brittany Galan was diagnosed with leukemia at 6 weeks old, doctors warned her parents she had little chance of surviving - she was so young and so sick. But...

Health-care alliance calls for action to lower prescription-drug costs

June 10, 2018 at 11:00 p.m.

A broad coalition including health-care providers, insurers and seniors will propose major changes today designed to rein in prescription-drug costs, including a shorter exclusivity period for biotech medications and a...

Dan Sherman, right, talks with Scott Steiner, who has a rare gastrointestinal cancer, and his wife, Brenda. Sherman and other "financial navigators" work to help people with cancer survive financially and medically. "He keeps throwing me life rafts before I sink," Scott says.

Tackling the financial toll of cancer, one patient at a time

August 19, 2019 at 3:27 a.m.

Even before Scott Steiner started treatment for a rare gastrointestinal cancer that had spread throughout his abdomen, a dangerous side effect threatened his health. His doctor had prescribed the cancer...

Infant rice cereal has inorganic arsenic. The FDA wants to limit it.

June 12, 2018 at 1:49 a.m.

The Food and Drug Administration on Friday proposed new limits for inorganic arsenic in infant rice cereal, an effort to reduce the leading source of arsenic exposure for babies. The...

Five things you need to know about this depressing new report on ovarian cancer

June 11, 2018 at 3:56 a.m.

Of all the "women's cancers," ovarian is among the most diabolical. A new, congressionally mandated report by the Institute of Medicine spells out, sometimes in unnerving detail, the challenges confronting...

SUCH CARRYINGS ON!

August 10, 2021 at 2:52 a.m.

Palm trees. Crates of live lobsters. Sets of china. Totem poles, Skateboards. Fax machines. Vacuum cleaners. And many, many laptop computers. This is just a small sampling of airline passengers`...

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