A new hypothesis suggests pesticide residues could affect lung-cancer risk in younger non-smokers — but there is not enough evidence here to blame healthy diets Few health headlines create confusion as quickly as ones that seem to reverse basic preve...
Continue readingNew study looks at stigma towards women who lose weight with GLP-1 drugs — and suggests weight loss is still judged as a moral issue, not only a medical one Few health topics expose social judgement about the body as clearly as obesity. And few recen...
Continue readingRobotic or laparoscopic surgery may work for gallbladder cancer — but only in carefully selected patients and experienced centres Few digestive cancers demand as much surgical caution as gallbladder cancer. It is a relatively uncommon disease, often...
Continue readingFirst-line targeted therapy shows strong antitumour activity in advanced lung cancer — but the benefit depends on the right biomarker Few areas of cancer medicine have changed as dramatically in recent years as the treatment of advanced lung cancer....
Continue readingNew research challenges an old obesity idea and suggests body composition in young children may depend more on development than on low energy expenditure alone Few public-health topics attract as many intuitive explanations as obesity. One of the mos...
Continue readingA protein may help explain why triple-negative breast cancer spreads so quickly — but the finding points to one promising mechanism, not a single answer Among breast-cancer subtypes, few raise as much clinical concern as triple-negative breast cancer...
Continue readingDebate over donating frozen eggs to research is growing — but the supplied evidence does not, on its own, prove clear public backing for changing consent rules In sensitive areas of biomedicine, consent rules are never just paperwork. They determine...
Continue readingNew imaging tools are expanding how cancer is studied — but the evidence points more to a broader research leap than to a direct view inside living cells In cancer research, progress has always depended in part on learning how to see more clearly. Ev...
Continue readingAn AI tool may help find rare cancer cells linked to faster progression — but the advance still belongs more to research than routine care One of the most important ideas in modern oncology is also one of the least intuitive outside research settings...
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