disease prevention

Your Daily Meat Choices Affect Your Stomach Cancer Risk: Study Shows

Your Daily Meat Choices Affect Your Stomach Cancer Risk: Study Shows

Dietary guidelines have long painted red and processed meats as the primary culprits behind cancer risk, but a massive new study tracking over 450,000 adults for 14 years is forcing a critical reassessment of those rules. While the findings definitively link everyday processed foods like hot dogs and bacon to aggressive stomach and esophageal cancers,…

How Chile Achieved a Historic Victory Over Leprosy

How Chile Achieved a Historic Victory Over Leprosy

For centuries, leprosy carried more than physical symptoms. It brought stigma, isolation, and fear. Today, that narrative is changing. Chile has officially eliminated leprosy as a public health problem, becoming the first country in the Americas to reach this milestone. This achievement reflects decades of coordinated effort, early detection strategies, and a commitment to equitable…

Scientists Have Found a “Kill Switch” in The Body That Can Destroy Any Type of Cancer
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Scientists Have Found a “Kill Switch” in The Body That Can Destroy Any Type of Cancer

Although the word “cancer” still inspires a chill down our spine, there are many discoveries every year as researchers learn about the most hopeful prevention developments.  Generating much interest in the media are frequent front-page stories on new ways to kill cancer cells, particularly on research and subsequent developments. Did you know that a Northwestern…