Cancer - kidney

kidney Renal cell cancer (or renal cell carcinoma) is the most common type of kidney cancer. It is a life-threatening tumor found mostly in adults in their 50s and 60s. It affects twice as many men as women.

Managing Your Health: Personal Health Guide The first in a series of four health guides It's the New Year - and the time many of us set goals for ourselves, and our family. One of which is usually to eat right and exercise more: to generally manage our health better...

Kidney Cancer Kidney cancer (also known as renal cancer) is uncommon in the United States, accounting for about one to two percent of all cancers each year. When detected relatively early, there is an excellent chance...

Medicare: Offering More Preventive Services Staying healthy is important at any age, and Medicare covers some preventive services to help you stay healthy. What are preventive services? There are steps you can take to lower your risk of disease and illness, and Medicare is providing coverage

Lupus Erythematosus: Under Attack By Your Own Immune System Systemic lupus erythematosus, SLE or lupus for short, is one of a group of diseases known as autoimmune disorders. The exact cause is usually unknown, though the disease primarily affects women of childbearing age...

Hantavirus Infection: A Serious Disease That Can Mimic the "Flu" An outbreak of severe lung infections in the southwest U.S. during the summer of 1993 led to the identification of hantavirus as the cause. Prior to this, hantavirus had mainly been...

Immunizations Take the Bite Out of Winter! How Immunizations Provide Disease Prevention Well it?s fall again and questions about adult immunizations ("shots") are on the rise. This has been triggered in part by an outbreak...

Skin Care and Aging: The Best Treatment is also the Cheapest Each year Americans spend billions of dollars on "wrinkle" creams, bleaching products to lighten age spots, and skin lotions to keep skin looking smooth and healthy in a never ending quest for a more youthful...

Hepatitis C poses less risk to liver than previously thought Patients infected with the hepatitis C virus who are otherwise healthy may have a lower risk of serious liver disease than previously thought, report US researchers...