Your nails might be trying to tell you something — and checking them could be the easiest way (hands down) to spot hidden health problems. Meaning “little moon” in Latin, lunulae are the half-moon shapes at the base of your nails. It’s where new nail cells are made and pushed forward. They’re most prominent on … Read more
Patients with a particular form of bowel cancer remained free of recurrence for almost three years after receiving a short course of immunotherapy before surgery, according to new findings from the NEOPRISM-CRC clinical trial led by researchers at UCL and UCLH. The results, which are due to be presented at the American Association for Cancer … Read more
Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Each month, How to Do It columnists Jessica Stoya and Rich Juzwiak ask readers for their thoughts on the letters they’ve received. In this edition, Rich replies to readers’ comments and suggestions below. Hey How to … Read more
Humans could become extinct by the year 2100 due to malicious use of AI or nuclear conflict, according to a new global risk assessment.They top a list of 17 major threats to human health over the next 75 years, which also includes cuts to aid spending by wealthy countries, the climate crisis and childhood malnutrition.The … Read more
Snohomish County, WA — With two flu-related deaths in Western Washington as of the first week of October, county health officials and medical experts are warning of a much earlier flu season than normal and are encouraging people to get their shots sooner.On Friday, the Snohomish County Health Department (SCHD) reported that a man in … Read more
GETTYSBURG, Pa. —A York County mother is turning a terminal cancer diagnosis into a mission to help others.Trisha Lane was first introduced in WGAL’s “Power of One” series one year ago, when she shared her fight with stage four metastatic breast cancer. Lane, a mother of three, learned she had cancer in 2020. One week … Read more
Varicose veins can have a way of suddenly making themselves known: a bulging, twisted or ropelike blood vessel in the leg that catches your eye and seems to come out of nowhere. But the changes that lead to varicose veins unfold over decades — and it might be possible to delay or halt them.
Bookstore owner Vicky Titcomb had no reason to suspect anything was out of the ordinary when she went to Mass General Brigham for a heart scan in March 2025. The 72-year-old Cape Cod bookstore owner and great-grandmother felt healthy. The scan was just a routine errand she had to run before traveling to New York City … Read more
At 14 weeks pregnant, a Florida woman was confronted with an impossible decision.Thirty-seven-year-old Alicia Harris from Tampa had just been diagnosed with an aggressive form of early breast cancer, and doctors told her that ending her pregnancy would allow treatment to begin immediately.But Harris wasn’t ready to give up on her baby. She chose a … Read more
PLEASANT GROVE — When Laura Baxter entered her 40s, she knew that she needed to get a mammogram.”I’m a big fan of preventive medicine, and it was just time for my first mammogram earlier this year.”Baxter, 41, also has a history of breast cancer in her family and witnessed her grandmothers endure the disease.”I’ve seen … Read more