by Sarah Mitchell | Health & Medical
Most coughs come from a cold and go away on their own. That everyday fact is exactly what makes lung cancer signs so easy to overlook at first. The early symptoms often sound ordinary: a cough that lingers, a voice that stays hoarse, getting winded a little sooner...
by Sarah Mitchell | Health & Medical
A lung cancer diagnosis brings a lot of information at once, and a lot of decisions. Alongside standard treatment, your care team may mention lung cancer clinical trials — carefully run studies that test whether a new treatment, a new combination, or a new way of...
by Sarah Mitchell | Health & Medical
If knee pain has started to shape your whole day — which chair you choose, whether you take the stairs, how far you walk — you may have heard knee replacement surgery mentioned as a next step. It is a big decision, and it helps to understand it in plain terms before...
by Sarah Mitchell | Health & Medical
For many people with epilepsy, the first medicine works and life settles down. For a stubborn minority — roughly a third, by most clinical estimates — seizures keep coming despite trying two or more appropriate medicines. That situation has a name, drug-resistant...
by Sarah Mitchell | Health & Medical
A diabetic nerve pain clinical trial studies the burning, tingling and stabbing pain that damaged nerves can cause in people with diabetes — most often in the feet, sometimes in the hands. Existing treatments help some people a little and others barely at all, which...
by Sarah Mitchell | Health & Medical
Crohn’s disease clinical trials sit at the centre of one of medicine’s harder problems: a chronic inflammatory condition of the digestive tract that can be managed, sometimes well, but not yet cured. For people whose current treatment is losing effect — or...
