Many people who are aware of their family’s history of colon cancer are afraid of evaluating their own risk for the disease. Others may be completely unaware that a relative was diagnosed with colon cancer or had pre-cancerous polyps. While colon cancer might not be the most appealing topic for family conversation, it is crucial for people to discuss the [...]
The FDA has just approved Victrelis and Incivek, drugs that directly inhibit viral replication of the most common strain of Hepatitis C virus. Although the number of new infections has decreased steeply over the last 20 years, Hepatitis is still very prevalent in the U.S. population. According to the CDC, over 3 million Americans live [...]
What if we were to tell you that taking a daily aspirin could reduce the chance of dying from a particular disease by almost a third? According to research published recently that is the case with colorectal cancer. Earlier this year, a British study found that aspirin not only prevents a range of cancers from [...]
For a long time it was believed that the causes of gastric ulcers were diet and stress. This was recently disproven with the discovery that 70-90% of stomach ulcers were in fact caused by a bacterium called Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori). Usually the high acid content of the stomach does not allow bacteria to survive. [...]
