A $2 million donation from the Fresno Truck Center will give Valley Children’s cancer survivors a leg up on remaining cancer-free. The donation provides the Childhood Cancer Survivorship Program Endowment with long-term funding to help improve the quality of care. In recognition of the gift, which was announced Thursday, the...
Sonography Helped Save Her Life. Years Later, It Saved Her Baby. Now She Does the Same.
Robyn Nachtigall-Hill has known she wanted to be a sonographer since she was 12 and undergoing cancer treatment. In a unique twist of fate, the woman who helped save her life as a preteen is the same woman who would someday become her sonography mentor and then help save her...
Health Panel Proposes Colon Cancer Tests Start at 45, Not 50
NEW YORK — A panel of health experts wants U.S. adults to start getting colon cancer screenings at age 45, five years younger than it previously recommended. While overall, colon cancer rates have been declining, the draft guidelines issued Tuesday by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force reflect a growing concern about...
California Court Upholds Verdict in Roundup Cancer Case
SAN FRANCISCO — A California appeals court on Monday upheld a groundbreaking verdict that Monsanto’s widely used weed killer caused cancer in a school groundskeeper but the panel also slashed the damage award from $78.5 million to $21.5 million. The 1st District Court of Appeal said there was evidence to...
Garry Bredefeld's Battle With Cancer
I have a personal story about cancer and I'm sharing it now six years after my first symptoms appeared in the hope of helping others to battle — and beat — this terrible disease. Today I am a two-time cancer survivor. And, let me tell you, life is good. I...
Rush Limbaugh Says He Has Advanced Lung Cancer
LOS ANGELES — Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh said he’s been diagnosed with advanced lung cancer. Addressing listeners on his program Monday, Limbaugh said will take some days off for further medical tests and to determine treatment. Limbaugh called himself the “mayor of Realville” in announcing his illness. He’d been...
For 1st Time in 4 Years, US Life Expectancy Rises — a Little
NEW YORK — Life expectancy in the United States is up for the first time in four years. The increase is small — just a month — but marks at least a temporary halt to a downward trend. The rise is due to lower death rates for cancer and drug...
As Wildfires Get Worse, Smoke Spreads, Stokes Health Worries
PARADISE — First came the flames, a raging firestorm propelled by 50 mph wind gusts that incinerated Kelsey Norton’s house and killed 85 people in her community. Then came the smoke — not just from the forest but also from 14,000 houses and their contents that burned, generating a thick...
How North America Trade Deal Dealt a Setback to Big Pharma
A revamped North American trade deal is nearing passage in Congress, giving both the White House and House Democrats cause to claim victory. There is relief, too, for farmers and businesses that wanted clearer rules governing the vast flow of goods among the United States, Canada and Mexico. But the...
More Americans Are Dying at Home Rather Than in Hospitals
For the first time since the early 1900s, more Americans are dying at home rather than in hospitals, a trend that reflects more hospice care and progress toward the kind of end that most people say they want. Deaths in nursing homes also have declined, according to Wednesday's report in the New...