This is misleading. The WHO has classed both sunbeds and smoking as cancer-causing hazards, but that doesn’t mean they’re equally risky. Independent experts have told us that smoking is much more ...

About 10% to 15% of patients with ischemic stroke have a history of cancer, half of whom have active malignancy at the time of stroke. With improved cancer treatments extending patient survival, the ...

SINGAPORE – As they grow older, Singaporeans visit the dentist less often, get lonelier and face the risk of becoming more frail. This was revealed in a recent nationwide longitudinal study that ...

Women under 50 who regularly eat ultra-processed foods are significantly more likely to develop bowel polyps which have been linked to cancer, concerning new research suggested today. The latest ...

Low fat fruity yoghurt may not be as healthy as it looks (Picture: Getty) A new study has linked ultra-processed foods to thousands of early deaths, warning that they make up too high a proportion of ...

In 2022, the investigative journalist Lucie Morris-Marr was in an intensive care unit, recovering from a 12 hour liver resection – a potentially curative treatment. Three years earlier she had been ...

You can’t go on social media or read the news these days without seeing yet another warning about how ultra-processed foods are going to kill you. This might sound hyperbolic, but there’s actually ...

Doctors use the Rome IV criteria to diagnose disorders of the gut-brain interaction. They are a series of guidelines that help rule out or treat complex gastrointestinal (GI) problems, using only ...

A hernia occurs when an internal body part protrudes through a weakened area of surrounding muscle or tissue that would usually be able to contain it. Hernia are very common and estimates suggests ...

Introduction: Lung cancer is currently among the most prevalent and lethal cancers in the world in terms of incidence and fatality rates. In clinical practice, identifying the specific subtypes of ...