Radiation may shrink existing metastatic tumors not directly treated. New research shows the opposite effect: Such tumors may also grow.

Violence against women and girls remains one of the most prevalent and pervasive human rights violations in the world. Globally, almost one in three women have been subjected to physical and/or sexual ...

Yet in its feverish purge of federal health programs, it has proposed eliminating the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion and its annual funding of $1.4 billion. That’s ...

Todd Heywood, known by his friends as simply “Heywood,” has been an outspoken HIV survivor, renowned investigative journalist, and queer advocate for most of his life. So it should come as no surprise ...

The NIH's National Cancer Institute, which has long benefited from bipartisan support, now faces an exodus of clinicians and scientists.

Watch a Melanoma Research Alliance presentation by Alexandra-Chloe Villani about immunotherapy side effects in this skin cancer.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has loosened restrictions on CAR-T therapies for blood cancers, a move that is expected to make the revolutionary immunotherapy available to more people in more ...

Researchers in Europe and the U.S. have long collaborated to tackle tough scientific questions. Certain fields, like rare diseases, particularly benefit from international collaboration because it ...

Women who used at-home test kits were more than twice as likely to complete screening than those who received only telephone reminders.

“These findings are concerning, especially as ICIs are being used more frequently in treating people with both early and late-stage cancers,” said Dr. Jingxuan Zhao, senior scientist, health services ...

On July 2, 2025, the Food and Drug Administration granted accelerated approval to sunvozertinib (Zegfrovy, Dizal (Jiangsu) Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.) for adult patients with locally advanced or ...

Scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have found that two common types of hormone therapy may alter breast cancer risk in women before age 55. Researchers discovered that women treated ...