Health Jun 15 Study highlights why LGBTQ+ people may be at greater risk for cancer By John Yang, Sam Lane, Harry Zahn
World Feb 17 Watch 3:22 News Wrap: Navalny’s mother pushes for answers after his death in prison In our news wrap Saturday, Alexei Navalny’s mother is pressing for details of how the Russian opposition leader died in an Arctic penal colony, outnumbered Ukrainian forces have withdrawn from the devastated eastern city of Avdiivka, U.S. Secretary of State…
Health Oct 14 Watch 6:08 New study highlights systemic barriers to cancer treatment for women According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, cancer has been one of the top two leading causes of death in the United States for 75 years. A recent international study revealed the unique challenges women with cancer can… By Ali Rogin, Kaisha Young
Health Sep 30 Watch 7:37 What to know about screening, diagnosis and treatment for prostate cancer Nearly 300,000 American men are expected to be diagnosed with prostate cancer this year alone, though most of those diagnosed don’t die from it. Ali Rogin speaks with Dr. Charles Ryan, a genitourinary oncologist and head of the Prostate Cancer… By Ali Rogin, Winston Wilde
Nation Oct 01 Watch 7:27 For this Nobel winner, fighting cancer began with his family Cancer treatment was for years dominated by just four techniques. But there is now a fifth category -- immunotherapy -- thanks to the revolutionary research of Jim Allison and Tasuku Honjo, who won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Medicine on…
Feb 08 Poor women more likely to lose jobs during breast cancer treatment, study finds By Kate Sheridan, STAT The new study also found overall between 20 and 30 percent of women diagnosed with breast cancer will lose their jobs. Continue reading
Dec 01 Treatment with hallucinogenic mushroom drug shows promise for patients with deep anxiety By Caleb Hellerman, Global Health Reporting Center It was mid-morning when Carol Vincent, the owner of a small marketing firm in Victoria, British Columbia, sat down and swallowed a capsule full of pure, synthesized psilocybin. Many people are familiar with the “natural” version, found in so-called magic… Continue reading
Mar 17 Watch 8:43 Experimental therapy trains immune cells to hunt and kill blood cancers By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Mar 01 Watch 4:03 New cancer treatments target disease-causing mutations By PBS News Hour Some cutting-edge research is giving new hope to cancer patients. Researchers are zeroing in on the causes of specific cancers and are finding dramatically different ways to fight the disease. To explain the latest findings, Dr. David Hyman from the… Continue watching
Jan 28 How playing with dangerous x-rays led to the discovery of radiation treatment for cancer By Dr. Howard Markel When the German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen’s announced his discovery of the x-ray in December of 1895, he was lauded on the front page of just about every newspaper in the world. Indeed, many journalists called this phenomenon “X-Ray… Continue reading