Unexpected findings on lung cancer CT scans may point to other non-lung cancers

When doctors review diagnostic medical scans for lung cancer, they sometimes spot abnormalities unrelated to the lungs. New ...

"My Stomach Has Been Hurting For Months," How Gall Bladder Cancer Is Often Missed

The gall bladder is a small pouch behind the liver, deep within the abdomen, making physical detection nearly impossible ...

Builders like me always moan about aches and pains – but now I have an incurable cancer I thought only old men get

WHEN Grant Learmont began suffering with a stiff back and hips in January, he blamed it on “aches and pains” caused by his ...

'Fit and healthy' builder, 40, who shrugged off back pain as a work injury devastated to be told it was symptom of terminal prostate cancer

When Grant Learmont began experiencing stiffness in his back and hips, he thought it was a muscle twinge he'd picked up while ...
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March came in with a cascade of health headlines that touched virtually every stage of life – from the youngest hearts to the ...
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Lewis: Health system good at addition, but time to master subtraction

Saskatchewan’s recently announced its Patients First Health Care Plan. Perhaps it should have been subtitled ‘And We Really Mean It This Time.’ It comes 17 years after the Patient First Review ...

'It Was Huge and It Had Horns' One Women Shared How She Ended up Secretly Growing a 1-Pound Kidney Stone

After a sudden emergency appendectomy, an Omaha woman discovers a massive, one-pound "staghorn" kidney stone hiding in her body.

I woke up bleeding from my belly button. The cause stunned me

“You’re having a belly button period,” a doctor friend texted me. Truly, a sentence no one wants to hear. But it wasn’t so simple.