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Older adults taking psychiatric medications, such as Valium or Xanax, may be at increased risk of dementia, a new French study suggests. In the reports, adults older than 65 who took drugs known as benzodiazepines were 50 percent more likely to develop dementia over a 15-year period, compared with those who did not take the…

Radiation therapy and chemotherapy aimed at killing cancer cells may have the undesirable effect of helping to create cancer stem cells, which are thought to be particularly adept at generating new tumors and are especially resistant to treatment, researchers say. The finding might help explain why late-stage cancers are often resistant to both radiation therapy…

new drug has received fast-track approval to treat advanced colon cancer, the Food and Drug Administration announced today (Sept. 27). The drug, Stivarga, has been approved to treat patients with colorectal cancer that has progressed after treatment and spread to other parts of the body, the FDA said. The drug, manufactured by Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals,…

Even though people who harm themselves are known to have a higher suicide rate than general society, what isn’t as commonly known is the fact that they die earlier from natural deaths.  Deaths rates from natural causes were between two and 7.5 times higher than those of the general population, depending on the particular cause…

BPA, is a chemical widely used to prevent metal corrosion in food packaging, and more than 90 percent of Americans have detectable BPA in their urine. Now a new study published in The Journal of the American Medical Association has found that high levels of urinary BPA are associated with an increased risk of childhood…