MANCHESTER, Jamaica- The Mandeville Regional Hospital recently received several medical supplies to boost its delivery of ...

GOMA, Congo (AP) — Nine United Nations peacekeepers in eastern Congo sustained injuries during fighting with the M23 armed ...

Doctors have used chemotherapy (chemo ... You get these medicines through a vein (IV) or by mouth. Akynzeo and Aloxi keep working for a few days, so they can prevent delayed nausea and vomiting.

The school has about 2,000 students and is located in a neighbourhood of Nashville about 10 miles south-east of the city centre.

Speaking with patient Katherine Field, Kate gestured to her own chest as she spoke about the port mechanism used to deliver the drugs during treatment. Kate speaking with Katherine Field during ...

Some of the forms of currently available IV iron are reviewed below. Iron deficiency is a common cause of anemia in the United States and worldwide. Although oral iron can be an easy, inexpensive ...

A combination of two existing chemotherapy drugs has been used to fight bladder cancer successfully for the first time in Singapore. This new union of the two “off-label” drugs – gemcitabine and ...

"I just had the port (the intravenous device for her treatment) put in on Friday, which is just below my collar bone so that’s still very tender, but by the time she arrived, my nurse had just ...

Sepulveda is currently receiving oral chemotherapy, which she said causes side effects such as nausea and fatigue. But the side effects are not as severe as IV chemotherapy, she said. Born and ...

Chemo is a lifesaving treatment, but it also causes side effects in all of the body’s systems. After receiving a cancer diagnosis, your first reaction may be to ask your doctor about ...

For many people, chemo is one of those necessary evils. It’s a treatment that – while sometimes highly unpleasant – is one of the main options during a cancer diagnosis. And while that can be ...

At present, most chemotherapy drug treatments against cancer are delivered by an intravenous drip over several hours on a hospital ward. Patients normally have to make daily trips for a week at a ...