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Dr explains: How music therapy matches CBT in easing anxiety among cancer survivorsMusic therapy is emerging as a powerful, evidence-based tool in cancer survivorship care. A recent MSK study finds it as effective as CBT in managing anxiety with long-lasting benefits through song writing and telehealth delivery. Read hereThis is an AI generated image.

Common sweetener could hold untapped potential to fight aggressive cancer, study findsResearchers find that fermented stevia extract exhibits disease-fighting properties against pancreatic cancerThe chemical properties of stevia plant extract could help fight pancreatic cancer cells, researchers discovered. (iStock)
The study was not performed on humans, so there is “still a lot that’s unknown about whether this will help patients,” an oncologist commented. (iStock)
The stevia used as a beverage sweetener does not show any benefit to fighting cancer in its current form. (iStock)
“Pancreatic cancer is a very aggressive malignancy,” an oncologist said. “And we know that even with the most aggressive of therapies, unfortunately, our outcomes are not good.” (iStock)

‘Body eats itself’: What happens when the body is starved of foodGaza is gripped by a man-made famine as starvation deaths rise sharply. Doctors describe mothers too weak to breastfeed and children unable to swallow. Experts explain how the body ’eats itself’ in five stages of starvation — from burning stored carbs to consuming vital organs — in a crisis that aid workers say is entirely preventableA doctor checks Palestinian girl Jana Ayad, who is malnourished, according to medics, as she receives treatment at the International Medical Corps field hospital, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Deir Al-Balah in the southern Gaza Strip, June 22, 2024. File Image/Reuters