While head and neck cancers are on the decline, thyroid cancer seems to be on the rise. However, researchers are not sure if this is due to an improvement in detecting thyroid cancer or if the increase in this cancer is due to exposure to environmental radiation. Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center researchers examined the trends [...]
At the beginning of June we posted that Roger Ebert, Pulitzer prize-winning movie critic for the nationally syndicated movie review show Ebert & Roeper, was scheduled to undergo surgery to remove a cancerous growth on his salivary gland. At that time, Ebert, who is 63, and a three-time thyroid cancer survivor, was quoted as saying, [...]
Hiccups are annoying, and the home remedies for an attack of hiccups range from holding your breath to breathing intoa paper bag — to being startled — to swallowing a spoonful of sugar. I could go on in remedies thought to work. Buthiccups were never a medical concern before today. According to Professor Tom Walsh, a researcher at [...]