As the weather grows cold this winter, you may be one of the many Americans pulling their winter jackets out of the closet. Not only can this extra layer keep you warm on a chilly day, but modern ...

Former government officials say the state isn’t doing enough to regulate fracking waste, even as new research shows it’s far ...

Cancer care has long focused on what drugs to give and in what doses, but a growing body of evidence suggests the clock on the wall may be just as important. Researchers are finding that the hour a ...

For decades, cancer care remained relatively unchanged, as doctors largely relied on three main strategies for confronting tumors: surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. Yes, more sophisticated ...

What's new in proton therapy? Read the latest news and views from Fred Hutch's proton therapy facility’s patients and ...

Daily scans taken during prostate cancer radiotherapy could be repurposed to guide changes to treatment, reducing the risk of side effects, a study suggests.

Radiation poisoning! It can happen in a blinding blue flash, or while sipping a cup of tea at a fancy London hotel. Or maybe you decided to skip the safety precautions at the workplace, just this once ...

A family physician explains how low-dose radiation therapy may help Oklahoma patients with advanced osteoarthritis when medications or physical therapy stop working. Low-dose radiation therapy can be ...

iPhones — like other mobile phones – use radio frequency (RF) waves as part of their normal operation to send and receive signals from the nearby cell towers. These RF waves — like microwaves and FM ...

When targeting tumours, protons and heavy ions offer distinct advantages compared to conventional X-ray radiotherapy. PTCOG president Marco Durante describes an exciting future for the technology and ...

As humans prepare for longer missions to the moon and Mars, scientists are trying to understand how space affects the human body. One of the biggest concerns is space radiation — high-energy particles ...