Why Chemo Causes Unwanted Side Effects And How To Treat Them

Chemotherapy is one of the most common weapons in the cancer-treatment arsenal, but its side effects are well known.

Hair loss. Nausea and vomiting. Mouth sores. Fatigue.

The side effects a person with cancer may have are affected by the type of cancer being treated and the chemotherapy drug being used. But a Boston-based cancer spec...

How to Nurture A Healthy Relationship 365 Days a Year

The focus on Valentine’s Day is, as The Beatles famously crooned, "love is all you need." 

But staying in love and growing together requires work and commitment.

"There are also some characteristics that most healthy relationships have in common," writes a team led by Lawrence Robinson of HelpGuide.org, a nonprofi...

Top HHS Officials Out as White House Shores up Midterm Election Strategy

FRIDAY, Feb. 13, 2025 (HealthDay News) —  U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s second-in-command is apparently on his way out as part of a restructuring ahead of midterm elections, CNN reported.

Deputy Secretary Jim O’Neill is expected to leave soon, after struggling to find his fit within the depar...

Thousands of NYC Nurses Return To Work, but One Major Strike Goes On

A monthlong nurses strike in New York City is coming to an end, but not for everyone.

Nurses at Montefiore and Mount Sinai hospitals voted to approve new three-year contracts, clearing the way for about 10,500 nurses to return to work in the coming days. 

But nurses at NewYork-Presbyterian? They rejected their proposed deal, mea...

States Sue To Block $600 Million Cut to Public Health Funds

Four states are suing to stop the Trump administration from rescinding hundreds of millions of dollars already set aside for public health programs.

California, Colorado, Illinois and Minnesota filed suit Wednesday after the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said it planned to cut about $600 million in funding to those Dem...

Trump Scuttles Key Climate Finding Used to Control Greenhouse Gases

President Donald Trump is undoing a long-standing scientific finding that says climate change threatens human health and the environment.

The move strips the federal government of much of its power to limit greenhouse gas pollution.

The decision targets the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) "endangerment finding," a 2009 findin...