A father-of-two was left floored after doctors informed him a suspicious-looking lump in his throat was cancer – which they believe was caused by oral sex. Frank Lane said he initially thought that health experts were ‘talking a load of rubbish’ when they informed him of the intimate source of his illness. But after doing some of his own research …
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Eighty years ago this week, the world passed into a terrifying new age. In Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, mushroom clouds announced that humans not only could slaughter each other in staggering numbers – but now also possessed the means to raze civilization as we know it. Despite its defining nature, this dreadful event that led to the end of WWII …
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Smoking leaves more than just a bad taste in your mouth — it could be fueling your oral cancer risk. Studies have consistently reported that cigarette users are five to 10 times more likely to develop oral cancer than non-smokers. A new study out of UC San Diego suggests that a chronic weed habit carries a higher risk of oral …
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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 …
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“Cannabis smoke contains many of the same carcinogenic compounds found in tobacco smoke, which have known damaging effects on the epithelial tissue that lines the mouth,” said Raphael Cuomo, Ph.D. associate professor in the Department of Anesthesiology at UC San Diego School of Medicine and member of UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center. “These findings add to a growing body …
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Updated July 21, 2025, at 6:43 p.m. BOSTON — A federal judge on Monday appeared skeptical of the federal government’s justification for freezing nearly $3 billion in research funding to Harvard, as lawyers for the two parties asked for a speedy decision in a high-stakes case that could determine the future of Harvard’s research enterprise. Speaking in front of a …
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