Many experience a pain so intense that it is commonly compared to that of childbirth. This stabbing pain is due to a kidney stone – a hardened deposit of salt and minerals that form inside the kidney and can travel to other parts of the urinary tract. About 1 in…
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Recent research from the American Cancer Society and the National Cancer Institute has found that rates of lung cancer are higher in women than in men amongst white and Hispanic people born since 1965. The study was published on May 23rd in the New England Journal of Medicine. The results…
Nowadays, we’re bombarded with the constant cancer warning; it seems like everything does, or can, lead to cancer. Many foods we consume and products we use contain carcinogens or substances and exposures that could be cancerous. Luckily, the American Cancer Society has published an up-to-date list of the known human…
The gallbladder is a small organ located directly under the liver, which functions to store and deliver bile into the small intestine where it will be used to break down fat from food. A gallstone forms as a small, hardened deposit of material in the bladder that can go undetectable…
