Category: 6. Health

A new review in Clinical Epigenetics synthesises growing evidence that paternal lifestyle and environmental exposures such as diet, obesity, smoking, endocrine-disrupting chemicals, and stress alter sperm epigenetic marks (DNA…

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A new study published in JAMA Network Open, a monthly open-access medical journal published by the American Medical Association, has uncovered a long-term link between Hurricane Sandy flooding and increased heart disease risk in older adults…

Appendix cancer was once a medical oddity that most people never heard about. Today, reports are stacking up in younger adults, and doctors are trying to make sense of it.

This cancer starts in the small pouch off the large intestine, and it often…

Working with an international team of collaborators, scientists at Columbia University have found a way to shift the balance of a type of white blood cell inside a stomach tumor, causing the immune system to…

Reposted from the Huntsman Cancer Institute.

New research from the University of Utah has found that lipids, a key feature of obesity, fuel tumor growth in an aggressive form of breast cancer. Findings from a National Cancer…

A blood test for more than 50 types of cancer could help speed up diagnosis according to a new study.

Results of a trial in north America show that the test was able to identify a wide range of cancers, of which three quarters don’t have any form…