Reckless Indifference Of The American Cancer Society To Cancer Prevention
Early this month, top Republican Senator Charles E. Grassley sent letters to the American Cancer Society (ACS), besides the American Medical Associati...
Early this month, top Republican Senator Charles E. Grassley sent letters to the American Cancer Society (ACS), besides the American Medical Associati...
AP | VALERIE BAUMAN | Posted 12.12.2009 | Impact
ALBANY, N.Y. — As the economy falters and more people go without health insurance, low-income women in at least 20 states are being turned away ...
Beverlye Hyman Fead | Posted 11.21.2009 | Books
My granddaughter who was eight kept my book by her bedside and was fascinated with everything concerning it. One day she told her mother she wanted to do a book report on "I Can Do This."
Rick Horowitz | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living
If you've been eating plenty of this and that because we kept proclaiming that this and that are good for you, you might want to scale back a bit.
Stanton Peele | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living
All of this reverses years of well-intended advice and public health information, proving once again that health information and advice is a matter of competing social and political forces.
Helen Cordes | Posted 10.23.2009 | Living
Yesterday, the American Cancer Society admitted that many women are diagnosed and treated for breast cancer needlessly--that the "cancer" they have wouldn't spread or even be noticed without mammograms.
Dr. Soram Khalsa | Posted 10.20.2009 | Living
The data supporting vitamin D is so strong and every year getting stronger. Why don't we take action now? How many more women need to get breast cancer or die from it before we make a move?
Morra Aarons-Mele | Posted 10.14.2009 | Living
Something positive is happening among American women, and it's largely happening online in "micro communities," and then in large gatherings. Micro communities of powerful women are working together.
Robyn O'Brien | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business
In our country, sickness sells. With money-driven medicine, there is little incentive to prevent illness.
Alexandra Mudry | Posted 08.26.2009 | Living
I am honored to have the privilege of introducing the official birthday cake of the American Cancer Society today.
Lissa Coffey | Posted 07.18.2009 | Living
Recent survey results released by the American Cancer Society reinforce, once again, the benefits of a healthy lifestyle, and the findings are definitely cause for celebration.
Yuna Shin | Posted 07.13.2009 | Living
My dislike of the sun is actually the result of a combination of both the Korean cultural upbringing and the photosensitivity I suffered as a child.
Joe Trippi | Posted 07.11.2009 | Living
Rather than groaning about aging another year, I've decided to do something meaningful to mark this birthday -- I'm declaring the American Cancer Society the official sponsor of my birthday.
Lanny Davis | Posted 12.18.2008 | Business
Without lobbyists, government could not function efficiently and perhaps not at all, going all the way back to George Washington.
Samuel S. Epstein | Posted 12.19.2009 | Living