Gender life expectancy gap increased from 2010 to 2021
Nov 13, 2023
The leading contributors to the widening gender life expectancy gap from 2019 to 2021 included COVID-19 and unintentional injuries.
Caregiving linked to lower mortality in postmenopausal eomen
Nov 10, 2023
The inverse association did not differ with caregiving frequency or when stratified by age, race-ethnicity or depressive symptoms.
Living alone tied to higher risk for cancer death
Nov 02, 2023
The findings persist for men, women, white adults and those with college education when fully adjusting for other factors.
EPA to ban carcinogenic chemical found in degreasers, cleaners
Oct 24, 2023
The proposal was made under the Toxic Substances Control Act; it would ban manufacturing, processing and distributing TCE for any use.
21.2 percent of U.S. adults had diagnosed arthritis from 2019 to 2021
Oct 12, 2023
Age-standardized prevalence rates were higher among women than men, veterans than nonveterans and non-Hispanic whites.
AACR cancer progress report reveals 33 percent decrease in cancer death rate, 1990 to 2020
Sep 13, 2023
The report highlights advances such as approval of 14 new anticancer therapeutics and the expansion of the use of 12 previously approved therapeutics.
Adherence to Mediterranean lifestyle linked to lower mortality
Aug 29, 2023
Increasing quartiles of MEDLIFE index were associated with reduced hazard ratios for all-cause and cancer mortality.
Sugar-sweetened drinks linked to increased incidence of liver cancer, mortality
Aug 08, 2023
The incidence of liver cancer and death from chronic liver disease increased for postmenopausal women drinking one or more sugar-sweetened beverage per day.
Biden administration announces new cancer research initiative
Jul 27, 2023
The program will fall under the purview of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, formed as part of the Cancer Moonshot initiative.
Cardiorespiratory fitness tied to reduced cancer incidence, mortality in men
Jul 03, 2023
Moderate and high cardiorespiratory fitness was linked to lower colon cancer incidence; low, moderate and high CRF was linked to lower prostate cancer mortality.