Dr. Deborah Axelrod, a breast surgeon and Dr. Baljit Singh, a pathologist, talk about breast conservation on video.
health.com | Posted 09.26.2009 | Living
Glioma is a catchall term that includes many different types of tumor, including astrocytomas, oligodendrogliomas, and ependymomas, according to the A...
Trish Kinney | Posted 09.25.2009 | Living
Such old-fashioned letters rarely bothered with the minutiae of a typical electronic transmission but instead were more focused on feelings and hopes and things that came straight from the heart.
Jeffrey Smith | Posted 10.07.2009 | Living
Stop eating dangerous genetically modified foods! That's the upshot of the Lyme Induced Autism (LIA) Foundation's position paper released today.
Christiane Northrup, MD | Posted 09.21.2009 | Living
A study conducted by Cedric Garland and other researchers determined that women with vitamin D levels above 52 ng/ml have half the risk of developing breast cancer as those with 13 ng/ml.
Dr. Larry Dossey | Posted 09.21.2009 | Living
We need to wake up to the obvious: the solution is already here, and it rests on prevention, not invention.
Ashley Koff | Posted 09.20.2009 | Green
"No system is perfect, but organic is by far the best option we have today, far surpassing any other system both in methods and integrity," says Dag Falck, Organic Program Manager for Nature's Path Foods.
Paul Paz y Miño | Posted 09.19.2009 | Green
Andy Rooney hates what Chevron is doing -- leaving 18 billion gallons of wastewater and 17 million gallons of crude oil to pollute Amazonian communities, and then trying to pretend that nothing ever happened.
Richard Laermer | Posted 09.18.2009 | Media
Robert Novak was disliked by many -- liberals, mostly -- but he was a soldier, veteran, and a remarkable, unceasing journalist.
Paul Armentano | Posted 09.17.2009 | Living
Investigators from Brown University reported that lifetime marijuana use is associated with a "significantly reduced risk" of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.
Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 09.16.2009 | Living
I wasn't going to weigh in on the healthcare reform debate. Truthfully, the debate seems particularly pointless to me because I don't think there is a...
Cynthia Boaz | Posted 09.14.2009 | Living
We in the United States have a health care system that creates (rather than eases) burdens for those battling critical illness. We have it all backwards.
AP | BEN McCONVILLE | Posted 09.14.2009 | World
EDINBURGH, Scotland — The sole man found guilty in the 1988 airplane bombing over Lockerbie is dropping his appeal against conviction, his lawye...
Bloomberg.com | Posted 09.14.2009 | Home
A drug that can selectively target and kill the stem cells that drive the growth of tumors has been identified for the first time by scientists who s...
Darryle Pollack | Posted 09.12.2009 | Living
The Hearts for Anna online fundraiser offers a chance to help Anna beat her cancer and get a beautiful piece of art in return.
Buzz Machine | Posted 09.11.2009 | Media
I have cancer, prostate cancer. When the doctor told me, he said that if you're going to get it, this is the one to get. It made feel as if I'd jus...
people.com | Posted 09.06.2009 | Entertainment
With his usual good humor, Ethan Zohn addresses what he considers the scariest part of being treated for cancer: Dealing with the avalanche of bills t...
Barbara Newman | Posted 09.05.2009 | Living
What do people do in their most caught-off-guard moment, when "what if" becomes reality? In 2006, when my husband was diagnosed with cancer, I found myself able to answer this question.
Waylon Lewis | Posted 09.04.2009 | Green
Studies like the FSA report need to look beyond the dinner plate and recognize that organic farming's avoidance of chemicals offers health benefits beyond nutrition.
Samuel S. Epstein | Posted 09.03.2009 | Green
It is anticipated that Dr. Margaret Hamburg, the newly appointed FDA Commissioner and public health advocate, will promptly ban the continued use of aspartame.
ABC News | By Raquel Hecker | Posted 09.03.2009 | Living
Vitamin D is known as the sunshine vitamin, and it has a lot of sunny benefits, but most Americans aren't getting them because they aren't getting eno...
Kate Kelly | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics
An opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal last Friday caught my attention because of the way it illustrated the many common misunderstandings about health care reform.
The Daily Green | Posted 09.02.2009 | Green
As if links to Parkinson's disease, diabetes and obesity, cancer, low sperm counts and other reproductive health problems, and childhood developmental...
Ester Amy Fischer | Posted 09.01.2009 | Living
One thing I've learned through my ordeal is this: the health insurance industry functions like a gambling casino. Your health -- indeed your life -- has an odd attached to it.
Kim Stagliano | Posted 09.01.2009 | Politics
You well know that tens of millions of Americans without health insurance remain sleepless when they or a loved one become ill. And I know you're fighting to change that. Thank you.
Kathy Plesser, MD | Posted 09.26.2009 | Living