Posted 4:09 PM 4/17/2012 by Joe Bevans

WOODSTOCK, N.Y. (AP) - Levon Helm, a former member of The Band, is in the final stages of his long battle with cancer. A message posted Tuesday on the 71-year-old musician's website by his family says "Levon is in the final stages of his battle with cancer." Helm was diagnosed with throat cancer (More)

Posted 8:55 AM 11/27/2011 by Matt Stafford

WASHINGTON (AP) - Medicare's prescription coverage gap is getting smaller and easier to manage this year for millions of older and disabled people with high drug costs.

That gap - known as the "doughnut hole" - will shrink about 40 percent for those unlucky enough to land in it this year. (More)

Posted 10:10 AM 10/11/2011 by Matt Stafford

WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal health officials are warning doctors about a rare but dangerous side effect of a Bristol-Myers Squibb leukemia drug that can cause abnormally high blood pressure in patients' lung arteries.

The Food and Drug Administration said the company's drug Sprycel will (More)

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Posted 11:20 AM 9/11/2011 by James H Egbert

While many around the state and country paused today to remember the lives lost 10 years ago today in New York City, Shanksville Pennsylvania, and Washington DC, many other walked and ran to remember lives lost and lives saved in the Susan G. Komen, Race for the Cure today in the Garden of the (More) • Videos (2)

Posted 2:24 PM 12/21/2010 by Bea Karnes

Most head and neck cancer patients have little trouble speaking or swallowing after chemotherapy and radiation treatments. In a study of 163 patients, University of Chicago researchers found chemoradiotherapy with or without surgery lowered speaking and swallowing problems, compared (More)

Posted 10:08 AM 12/14/2010 by Bea Karnes

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Eli Lilly says it suspended a late-stage study of tasisulam as a potential skin cancer treatment because of safety concerns, but the company will continue studying the drug candidate in other cancer studies.

The company did not disclose the specific safety issues (More)

Posted 8:06 AM 12/7/2010 by Bea Karnes

LONDON (AP) - A new report from British scientists suggests that long-term, daily aspirin use may modestly lower the risk of dying of certain cancers, though experts warn the study isn't strong enough to recommend healthy people start taking a pill that can cause bleeding and other problems.

Posted 9:53 AM 12/1/2010 by Bea Karnes

For some patients with prostate cancer, going without treatment may be the best option.

Researchers from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston say 90-percent of men diagnosed with low-risk, localized prostate cancer have some kind of treatment, like surgery or radiation. But they say (More)

Posted 7:24 AM 11/16/2010 by Bea Karnes

SAN FRANCISCO (NBC) - It's estimated that one in six men in the United States will get prostate cancer, but researchers at the University of California San Francisco say a new treatment could make the disease a thing of the past.

It's called Provenge.

"What Provenge does is it (More)

Posted 6:36 AM 11/9/2010 by Bea Karnes

WASHINGTON (AP) - For the best clue about your future health, a new study says you're better off turning to relatives than to genetic testing.

Dr. Charles Eng, a cancer geneticist at the Cleveland Clinic, says a thorough family history is "the best-kept secret in health care."

The (More)