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World Hypertension Day: Blood pressure screening could prevent millions of premature deaths each year

The chief cardiologist at the United States’ top-ranked heart hospital has praised a campaign to ensure fair access to blood pressure testing, saying it could prevent millions of premature deaths every year. May 17th is World Hypertension Day, and in...

New biomarker identified for early diagnosis of lung cancer

High levels of cytoskeleton-associated protein 4 (CKAP4) have been identified in the blood of patients with lung cancer. In a novel study in The American Journal of Pathology investigators found that CKAP4 levels were significantly higher in patients with...

Kicking Surgery to the Curb: A Non-Invasive Innovation in Radiation Oncology

We all know that the statistics for skin cancer are staggering: the diagnosis and treatment of non-melanoma skin cancer (NMSC) in the U.S. increased by 77 percent between 1994 and 2014, and about 90 percent of NMSCis associated with...

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