In the first study, published in the Journal of Public Health, researchers investigated the connection between pets and colorectal cancer. They found that pet owners were almost three times as likely ...

Funding cuts are devastating for U.S. science, writes cosmologist Paul Sutter. Regaining support will require cleaning house and delivering bipartisan messaging.

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If finalized, come next summer, students in these fields will be limited in how much they can borrow from the federal government for their education to $20,500 annually, with a lifetime cap of ...

Science News Proton Therapy Shows Survival Benefit in Phase III Trial for Patients With Mouth and Throat Cancers Proton therapy also showed benefits in quality of life, such as less feeding tube ...

“The data we reviewed showed that patients who received follow-up transplants or tumor removal after immunotherapy reduced the size of their tumors lived much longer than patients who just remained on ...

This is yet another attack by the Trump Administration on the transgender community and on healthcare access for all Americans. These proposals are unprecedented in their insidiousness, placing ...

The study adds to existing evidence suggesting that scheduling cancer treatment according to a person’s natural circadian rhythm may lead to maximum effectiveness and minimal toxicity due to factors ...

BCRF awards $2.6M in grants to Fred Hutch/University of Washington/Seattle Children’s Cancer Consortium researchers. Here’s what they’re investigating.

A recent study in the journal PNAS from the lab of Julie Overbaugh, PhD, reveals when the Zika virus invades, interferon musters the usual militia, but the alarm also is regulated by a gene with a ...

The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) Oncology Research Program (ORP) today announced new funding for advancing clinical research in metastatic breast cancer (mBC). Six grants have been ...

The aggressive brain cancer glioblastoma is in a lot of Google searches this week: Former NBA player Jason Collins, 47, announced Thursday [December 11] that he has been diagnosed with a stage 4 ...