A Canadian man’s wife said his vaping days are behind him after an e-cigarette exploded in his pocket on Friday, leaving him with second- and third-degree burns on his leg.
An experimental gene therapy that turns a patient's own blood cells into cancer killers worked in a major study, with more than one-third of very sick lymphoma patients showing no sign of disease six months after a single treatment, its maker said Tuesday.
Patients suffering from leg cramps at night don't get any more relief from these symptoms with a magnesium pill than they do with a dummy pill, a recent Israeli study suggests.
Pacemakers may fail to properly regulate patients' heartbeats near certain appliances and tools that generate electric and magnetic fields, a German study suggests.
German drugmaker Merck KGaA and U.S. partner Pfizer have been granted priority review status in the United States as they seek to widen the use of immunotherapy drug avelumab to include bladder cancer.
In an airport food court recently, a traveler spotted me topping my salad with hummus instead of dressing and said, “I never would have thought of that!”