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More people in the United States now smoke cannabis every day than drink alcohol, with about 17.7 million daily or near daily users recorded in the 2022 National Survey on Drug Use and Health. That shift adds urgency to questions about what long term, high frequency use might be doing to the body. Researchers from the University of …

Chronic inflammation fuels cancer and damages the body’s repair systems. Inflammation is supposed to help the body heal. But when it becomes constant, due to processed food, poor sleep, pollution, or hidden infections, it begins to harm instead. It breaks down healthy tissue, supports tumor growth, and messes with immune responses. Seyfried and others stress an anti-inflammatory lifestyle: whole foods, …

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Breast cancer patients who have been in remission for years or even decades may still need to be cautious about respiratory infections. Some common viruses may re-awaken a very small number of dormant breast cancer cells within our lungs, according to emerging research. “Dormant cancer cells are like the embers left in an abandoned campfire, and respiratory viruses are like …

Wednesday, July 30, 2025 NIH case study finds virus drives creation of cancer cells in context of defective T cells. Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have shown for the first time that a type of human papillomavirus (HPV) commonly found on the skin can directly cause a form of skin cancer called cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (cSCC) …

Visit the News Hub Software developed at WashU Medicine on accelerated path to approval Getty Images A new AI-based technology developed at WashU Medicine analyzes mammograms to provide a more accurate prediction of an individual’s risk of developing breast cancer over the next five years. The software has now received the FDA’s Breakthrough Device designation. A new technology that harnesses …

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In early 2024, Melissa Sanders experienced an almost three-month long period. At 44 years old, she thought perimenopause, when the body starts to transition to menopause, was causing her heavy menstrual bleeding. “Everybody was telling me I’m going through perimenopause,” the now-46-year-old from Valley City, Ohio, tells TODAY.com. “I didn’t make a big deal about it. I just put up …

Doctors at the National Institutes of Health have discovered a new cause of skin cancer, according to a case report published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine. The culprit is a type of human papillomavirus (HPV) that’s regularly found on the skin. It’s long been thought to play a role in the development of skin cancer, but wasn’t …

Nathan Bevan & Sara Smith BBC News, South East Gabriel & Sebastian Shemirani The 23-year-old, from Uckfield in East Sussex, died from a heart attack caused by her tumour An osteopath who saw a woman with cancer shortly before her death has told her inquest he had “never seen anything like” her case in 43 years of practice. Paloma Shemirani, …