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Michelle Alozie talks on how to balance academics and other careers

Cha Cha Slide creator DJ Casper has died at the age of 58 eight years after kidney and liver cancer diagnosis.    In 2016, the songwriter revealed he had been diagnosed with kidney and liver cancer, and his wife Kim confirmed to ABC 7 on Tuesday that he had passed …

Scientists have developed a groundbreaking cancer drug that kills all solid cancer tumors while leaving other cells unharmed. The new molecule, codenamed AOH1996 – targets a protein present in most cancers that helps tumors grow and multiply in the body. It is significant because this protein,  the proliferating cell nuclear …

Girls wait for their vaccination cards to be updated after receiving the HPV vaccine at BP Koirala Cancer Hospital in Bharatpur, Nepal, 10 July 2023. Credit: Marty Logan/IPS by Marty Logan (chitwan district, nepal) Monday, July 31, 2023 Inter Press Service CHITWAN DISTRICT, Nepal, Jul 31 (IPS) – As Dipak Subedi …

London, United Kingdom – It is a sunny day in early April, and a performance is under way in a gleaming concert hall in central London. A gentle crackling and clanking, echoing as if trapped in the hull of a ship, fills the room. These are the sounds of the …

At 15, Linda Caicedo, now a star forward on Colombia’s FIFA Women’s World Cup roster, received a crushing diagnosis. She had ovarian cancer. Caicedo already had made her debut for Colombian professional team América de Cali and the Colombian senior women’s national team. With this news, though, her football career …

The sweetener aspartame is a “possible carcinogen” but it remains safe to consume at already-agreed levels, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared on Friday, July 14.   Aspartame is one of the world’s most popular sweeteners, used in products from Coca-Cola diet sodas to Mars’ Extra chewing gum. In a …

Five years after her death, the final wishes of music icon Aretha Franklin are yet to be settled.   A trial will begin next Monday to determine which of two handwritten wills, including one found in couch cushions, will guide how her estate will be shared.   According to Mail …

By Guardian Life 30 June 2023   |   8:31 am The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) is planning to declare aspartame, a widely used artificial sweetener, as potentially causing cancer. Aspartame is a sugar substitute that is much sweeter than regular sugar and is commonly found in …

It’s been one year since the country music star Toby Keith made the devastating announcement to the world that he had been diagnosed with stomach cancer. Now, the 61 year-old singer is giving fans an update on how his cancer battle is going. Toby Keith is hoping to return to …