Queens Lags Behind the Nation in Late-Stage Breast Cancer detection
A grassroots effort called HealthLink is mobilizing breast cancer survivors to reach out in laundry rooms and libraries across the borough to screen women in time.
A grassroots effort called HealthLink is mobilizing breast cancer survivors to reach out in laundry rooms and libraries across the borough to screen women in time.
Pedro Nava | Posted 12.18.2009 | Los Angeles
Schwarzenegger and the California Department of Public Health have embraced the holiday season with a new set of proposed rules that will abandon low-income women.
Craig Bowron | Posted 12.04.2009 | Living
Politicians are incapable of giving the public any bad news, and the insurance and health care industries care about profits. That leaves physicians and scientists to lead us through health care reform.
Devra Davis, Ph.D. | Posted 11.24.2009 | Living
Mammography is one of the most oversold and understudied technologies in medical history. To continue to assert that mammography will save lives flies in the face of huge numbers of studies on the topic.
Andy Ostroy | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics
It's irresponsible for Republicans to label two new cancer-screening recommendations as partisan-based and illustrative of the sort of "rationing" they claim reform will bring.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.19.2009 | Media
The latest alarmist claptrap that's emerged in the debate over health care reform involves a study that's been done by the US Preventive Services Task...
Cristie Kerr | Posted 10.22.2009 | Impact
Breast cancer has touched the lives of nearly all of us in some way and we all need to take an active role in educating others and supporting advances in research.
Omar Kasrawi | Posted 12.22.2009 | New York