NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Dr. Rebecca Smith-Bindman about her research indicating CT scans, which emit radiation, will cause some 100,000 cases of cancer annually. X-rays and CT scans have ...

Vaping has not been around long enough for researchers to fully understand the long-term health impacts. However, the aerosol a person inhales when vaping contains some chemicals that may be linked to ...

Women’s reproductive health is impacted significantly with their busy lifestyles. A few bad habits can discreetly influence ...

Studies have shown that many of us are scared of things that are unlikely to kill us, whilst we happily engage in behaviours ...

Stomach cancer usually starts with precancerous changes in the stomach’s inner lining. Precancerous conditions are changes that occur in the body that may lead to cancer. Several precancerous changes ...

Smoking can increase the risk of certain cancers, including certain types of leukemia. Tobacco smoke in cigarettes contains multiple chemicals that have the potential to cause cancer. Smoking has been ...

Are sanitizers safe or not? The use of hand sanitizers has increased significantly since the coronavirus pandemic. Let us explain whether using them poses a risk of cancer or if this is just a rumor.

Human papillomavirus (HPV) causes nearly 38,000 cancers a year, including most cervical and throat cancers. Now recent research suggests HPV infection also increases the risk of heart disease. An ...

X-rays and CT scans have revolutionized medicine. Doctors can look inside the body and diagnose diseases even before people feel ill. But medical imaging that uses radiation comes at a cost. A new ...