The U.S space agency, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) had recently announced that, it was in the process of carrying out an experiment that would give an insight into the effects of space travel. NASA plans to expose about 18 to 28 squirrel monkeys to low levels of radiation in an effort to determine [...]

As per a report released by Cedar Sinai hospital, almost all the patients who went under the CT Scan machine have been exposed to radiation, that too eight times the normal amount. The CT scan machine that is throwing such huge quantities of radiation was rest in the month February last year.
The error during the [...]

In New York, there is a campaign war against soda and other sweetened drinks. The city’s health department has launched ‘a public-awareness campaign, which includes posters in the subway system and a multilingual Health Bulletin’ that began on the end of August and will run for three months.
The new campaign asks New Yorkers if they’re [...]

An Associated Press research based on ‘dozens of studies and interviews with more than 100 sources’ reveal the existence of ‘an underground medical system operating in plain sight, with a different standard than the rest of medical care, and millions of people using it on blind faith.’
The World Health Organization has even reached the point [...]

The Brazilian black people who smoke have up to 5.21 times higher risk of developing lung cancer than Brazilian white smokers. The finding is from a research conducted by Unicamp (Universidade Estadual de Campinas), which was presented at the European Congress of Pneumology.

The cancer of the lung is considered to have the highest mortality [...]

American oncologists isolated a potent inhibitor of metastasis that may enable the creation of new treatments against cancer. The metastasis, which is the invasion of cancer cells in other parts of the body, is a major cause of cancer deaths.

The oncologist Watnick Randolph, Professor of Vascular Biology Program of the Pediatric Hospital of Boston, [...]

I have seen people who smoke and cough. I have also read many articles on the ill effects of smoking, particularly cancer. Based on medical literature that says smoking is bad for a person’s health, your smoking will eventually make you ill. But don’t take my word for it. I hope these medical facts will [...]

Addicted to hot tea or coffee? According to new research studies it could be risky to sip piping hot tea or coffee.  It can increase the risk of esophageal cancer. Tea and coffee are known for their health benefits but this is the first time that adverse effect is being studied. The culprit could just [...]

According to a recent Million Women Study conducted by researchers of University of Oxford daily intake of even a small amount of alcohol can increase risks of cancer among women.
The study was conducted over a million women, making it a largest study ever. Apart from smoking and diet related factors such as obesity even regular [...]

Nycomed has launched a new print campaign, which includes an ad poster for their new intra-nasal spray system for painkillers. The shocking image of a woman’s back being sheared by a tool suggests the kind of pain that cancer patients go through when they face the ‘breakthrough cancer pain’. The exaggerated picture is nothing less [...]