BY: NADIA ZAIDI I’m surprised that Robots haven’t yet replaced humans. From jobs to performance, they have beaten us at our own game. Ironically, humans make them, and apparently a little too well. You don’t need a surgeon’s steady hand…
Cancer-free girls recreate viral photo three years later
Lora Scantling photographed three brave girls that fought cancer; the hardest battles of their lives. Three years later they’re back with grace, smiles and good health. Rylie,3, Rheann, 6, and Ainsley, 4, gracefully hold on to each other while smiling into…
Cancer drugs in India are getting major price cuts
BY: ELIJAH BASSETT In India, like many places around the world, finances hold many people back from getting the medical treatment they need. Ideally, this is where the government comes in, to ensure that its citizens are able to afford…
A new breath test could save lives by speeding up cancer diagnosis
BY: ELIJAH BASSETT Nobody wants to hear that they’ve got bad breath, but a recent medical study suggests that it could save your life. The researchers found that a breath test they’d created could detect stomach and esophagus cancer with…
3D printed micro-rockets will soon deliver drugs to your body
BY: LISA MICHAELS Recent experiments from research scientists at the Chemical and Biological Engineering department of the University of Sheffield, England have led to an exciting medical innovation. Their work has leveraged the use of new 3D inkjet printing technology…
Music is now being used in the treatment process for cancer patients – and it’s working
By: Jocelyn Schwalm Music has the special ability to resonate at our very core. Even when we feel like we are at our most vulnerable, it can console us. Now music is being linked to helping individuals who are undergoing…
Using sound waves to liquefy tumours may be a safe alternative to chemo and radiation
BY: MARIYA GUZOVA The use of chemotherapy and radiation as a cancer treatment has had a cloud of controversy around it for a long time. The plethora of negative side effects, some of which you don’t recover from, has led…
Research proves that getting cancer isn’t just “bad luck”
There’s no more kidding yourself; you can’t hide behind the notion that getting cancer is simply “bad luck”. A study from the Cancer Research Center at Stony Brook University has found evidence proving that extrinsic factors — like smoking, sun…
People are using cannabis oil as an alternative cancer treatment and it’s working
BY: TREVOR HEWITT 120mg Oxcycontin 30mg Morphine 30mg Toreador 4 Tylenol #4 150 mg Amitriptaline 200 mg Celebrex 2000 mg Metphormin 15 mg Lipator 15 mg Clonazapane 15 Avianda 8 mg Coversyle 20 mg Zantac Though this laundry list of narcotics might…
This photographer helps children with cancer live out their wildest dreams
BY: JESSICA BEUKER “Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.” A line from a Shel Silverstein poem was all it took to inspire Jonathan Diaz to make dreams come true for child cancer patients. His ‘Anything Can Be’ project is…
This incredible woman returned to modeling after she lost her jaw to cancer
PHOTOS BY: Manol Ceron, From the electric lights of Manhattan to ocean front photo shoots on Greek islands, Elizaveta Bulokhova walked down runways across the world with a cultivated grace. In her seven-year career as a fashion model, she saw…
The WCRF determines the exact number of drinks a day that causes cancer.
BY: JESSICA BEUKER The World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) has pinpointed the exact level of drinking that is associated with liver cancer. According to The Guardian, the WCRF said this has been the biggest review so far of the evidence…
DNA nanobots will target cancer cells in the first human trial using a terminally ill patient
BY: DANIEL KORN The very mention of “nanobots” can bring up a certain future paranoia in people—undetectable robots under my skin? Thanks, but no thanks. Professor Ido Bachelet of Israel’s Bar-Ilan University confirms that while tiny robots being injected into…
Forget cancer and ebola: Antibiotic resistance is the world’s new major health yhreat
BY: The Plaid Zebra Are we returning to a medieval era where people will drop like flies from ordinary infections, where a child may not be able to survive a rusty nail through the foot or harsh bout of strep…
Not all charities are created equal
BY SARAH HOWELL There is an unspoken assumption that charities will give away most of their profit. Between fundraisers, worker salaries, fees, and advertising, the true question stands: How much profit is left to support the suffering people who need…
Turns out bee venom could be used to fight cancer
By JACKIE HONG A component in honeybee venom could become the new key in the fight against cancer, a team from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign announced at the 248th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society in San…