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Mark Hyman, MD: How One Social Experiment Helped 15,000 People Lose 250,000 Pounds

2012-05-27T10:26:33Z

Acute disease can be left to the hospitals, but creating health and healing of chronic disease seems to happen best in the community -- with people helping people where each one of us lives, where we eat, cook, learn, work, play and pray.

Read more: Food as Medicine, Nutrition, Tedmed 2012, Personal Health, Community Health Care, Community Care, Public Health, Healthy Living Health News, Diabetes, Chronic Disease Prevention, Community Health, Wellness, Diabetes Prevention, Tedmed, Chronic Disease, Healthy Living News

1 in 5 Americans Will Get Skin Cancer. Here's How To Protect Yourself

2012-05-27T02:22:00Z

By Chai Woodham, for U.S. News

You know you've reached the zenith of pop culture zaniness when Saturday Night Live parodies you. That's exactly wha...

Read more: Sun Skin, Video, Skin Safety, Prevent Skin Cancer, Skin Cancer, Skin Cancer Prevention, Healthy Living News

Glen Browder: Chernobyl Zombies? Chernobyl HIV? Chernobyl Forever?

2012-05-26T17:13:08Z

Get ready, world! Chernobyl is back, almost 10,000 days later, in vivid color, with gore, blood, and ... zombies!

Read more: Mental Health, University of Southern California, Chernobyl HIV, Children of Chernobyl, Nuclear, Grandchildren of Chernobyl, Maria Vitagliano, Sonny Patel, Thyroid Cancer, Chernobyl Diaries, Belarus, Eastern Europe, Green Cross International, Russia, Ukraine, Chernobyl, Mikhail Gorbachev, Jonathan M. Samet, World News

SUNSCREEN 101: How To Choose It, Wear It And Keep Safe Under The Summer Sun

2012-05-26T10:13:42Z

Memorial Day rings in the summer season and, along with barbecue equipment, beach toys and sandals, stores are beginning to pad their shelves with sun...

Read more: Sun Exposure Skin Cancer, Sunscreen Cancer, Sunscreen Labels, Skin Cancer, Beauty and Skin, Sunscreen 101, Sunscreen Tips, Sunscreen Zinc, Sunscreen Guide, How Much Sunscreen, Skin Care, Slideexpand, Sunscreen Chemicals, Healthy Living News

Angie Harmon: A Wish For All Men

2012-05-24T13:46:07Z

It is for all of the wonderful men in my life that I am raising my voice about a disease that affects more than two million American men and remains the second-leading cause of cancer death for men in the U.S. We can make a difference with the progress of finding better treatments and ultimately, a cure.

Read more: Safeway, Stand Up to Cancer, Angie Harmon, Cancer, Prostate Cancer, Prostate Cancer Screening, Prostate Cancer Awareness, Impact News

Philip Lee Miller: Let's Revolutionize Prostate Cancer

2012-05-23T12:54:46Z

The time for a new approach for men and prostate cancer screening has now come. But you must be persistent and seek a new course.

Read more: Mri, Prostate Cancer, Men's Health, Psa, Biopsy, Cancer, Healthy Living Health News, Prostate Screening, Prostate Cancer Screening, Healthy Living News

Why Some Women Risk Cancer To Be Tan

2012-05-23T10:13:52Z

A CDC report out this month found that nearly one in three white women aged 18 to 25 had used a tanning booth in the previous year. White women aged 1...

Read more: Sun Damage, Tanning Salons, UV Rays, Skin Cancer, Sun, Cancer, Tanning Bed, Tanning Booths, Tanning, Women News

Matt Browner Hamlin: A Community's Tough Love

2012-05-22T15:04:31Z

As a relatively new member of the GORUCK Tough community, I've found the willingness of its members to support each other and the causes we believe in to be rewarding in a way I never expected.

Read more: Leukemia, Green Beret, Goruck, Goruck-Challenge, GORUCK Challenge, Childhood Cancer, Special Forces, Impact News

David Plotkin: Not Letting Cancer Define Us

2012-05-22T17:33:50Z

When my son was first diagnosed, I told him, "It is how we face obstacles that define who we are." When he lost his hair, we bought him a baseball cap and he refused to wear it. I realized that Max, at 4, was not about to let cancer define him.

Read more: Lymphoma, Cancer Research, Cancer Treatment, Pediatric Cancer, The Max Cure Foundation, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Impact News

15-Year-Old's Incredible Discovery That Won Global Contest

2012-05-22T09:42:26Z

Another amazing teen scientist is making headlines for developing advances in cancer research in his after-school hours. Fifteen-year-old Jack Andraka...

Read more: Intel-Science-Competition-2012, Angela Zhang, Intel Science and Engineering Fair, Hippie-Pandas, Cancer Research, Teen Scientists, Amazing Teens, Pancreatic Cancer, Jack Andraka, Video, Teen News

FTC Decides Pom Wonderful Falsely Advertised

2012-05-21T15:39:56Z

As part of a larger ruling on an FTC complaint, an administrative law judge on Monday issued a cease-and-desist order against Pom Wonderful to stop it...

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Mark Hyman, MD: Can Social Networks Cure Disease?

2012-05-20T11:31:45Z

After Haiti I realized that the answer had to be somewhere else. If social networks can promote unhealthy lifestyles, maybe we can use social networks to create health.

Read more: Food as Medicine, Nutrition, Social Networks Disease, Type 2 Diabetes, Social Networks, Pre-Diabetes, Diabetes, Type 1 Diabetes, Social Networks Diabetes, Healthy Living News

Robert Doar: We Need a Stronger Message in the Fight Against Obesity

2012-05-18T17:48:22Z

Taxpayers should not be forced to subsidize the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages. It is time for the federal government to take a second look at this issue.

Read more: Healthy Eating, Sugar-Sweetened-Beverages, Type 2 Diabetes, Food Stamps, Diabetes, Sugary Drinks, Obesity, Adult Onset Diabetes, Childhood Obesity, New York News

WATCH: Hospital Hosts Prom For Sick Kids

2012-05-18T14:16:20Z

After Jeff Kahan lost his son to cancer, the grieving dad decided to bring life to kids battling life-threatening diseases.

He fulfills his mission...

Read more: Leukemia, Video, Heart Transplant, Lung Transplant, Julie Keeton, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Weston Keeton, Joshua Kahan Foundation, Jeff Kahan, Chop Prom, Childhood Cancer, Impact News

Ruth Neubauer: Visiting Bernice

2012-05-18T13:20:52Z

One year and three chemotherapy treatments later, she still has a wicked sense of humor, albeit a slowed-down delivery. And although only a tuft of hair has grown back, she is still beautiful.

Read more: Lung Cancer, Renaissance, Friendship, Death and Dying, Women, Music, Writing, Women News

Donna Summer's Death Highlights Risk Of Lung Cancer For Blacks

2012-05-17T10:25:10Z

It's estimated that some 88,000 men and 70,000 women die from lung cancer each year, and for African Americans like disco legend Donna Summer, who rep...

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Debra Ollivier: Jai Pausch On Dreaming New Dreams

2012-05-18T10:10:00Z

In her new book, Jai Pausch chronicles the profound challenges that she and her family faced as Randy succumbed to cancer. Pausch speaks for millions in describing how she managed her role of caregiver, how she dealt with extraordinary grief, how she negotiated the emotional terrain of parenting.

Read more: Caregiving, Baby Boomers, Randy Pausch, Pancreatic Cancer, Loss and Grief, Jai Pausch, Dream New Dreams, Randy Pausch Last Lecture, Randy Pausch Cancer, Fifty News

Sierra Alef-Defoe: Cancer Research Should Be a National Priority

2012-05-18T08:40:10Z

Our nation needs to take a united stand against our common enemy. We must not let cancer remain the second-leading cause of death when we have the opportunity to fight it.

Read more: Cancer Research, Cancer, Cancer Research Funding, Teen News

Bloomberg's Big Wedding Gift To Quinn

2012-05-16T08:42:09Z

Mayor Michael Bloomberg and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn may have a (controlled?) disagreement over the living wage bill, but that doesn't mea...

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Ann Bauer: Why Men Won't Talk About Impotence

2012-05-16T09:08:00Z

In researching my book, I asked men about performance issues. What happens in your head when you can't get it up? How does it become (as I've heard it can be) a self-perpetuating problem? I'm close to literally a dozen fine, garrulous older men. But when I broached this topic, every one of them turned red and stammered and then was struck mute.

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7 Habits That Could Lower Your Risk Of Alzheimer's Disease

2012-05-16T08:38:25Z

On Tuesday, May 15, the Obama administration set in stone the National Alzheimer's Plan, aiming to find methods of prevention and treatments for Alzhe...

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Jay Scott: When the Reasons Are Unreasonable: The Childhood Cancer Drug Shortage

2012-05-14T09:17:55Z

Recently, a news story documented the fact that dozens of children's cancer drugs are running out for reasons that include manufacturing problems and reduced production due to lower profits with generic drugs.

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Former Yahoo CEO Reportedly Diagnosed With Thyroid Cancer

2012-05-14T03:20:01Z

Scott Thompson, who stepped down as the chief executive officer of Yahoo Inc. over the weekend, has reportedly been diagnosed with thyroid cancer.

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Sherri Bushong Maxey: I May Not Be Their Birth Mother, But I Take Care Of 51 Kids With Cancer As If They Were My Own

2012-05-12T12:07:39Z

If you are a mother, grandmother or aunt with a healthy child, give thanks on this Mother's Day and everyday for their health. Life can change in an instant, and it is my sincere hope that you never have to stay at a Ronald McDonald House.

Read more: Mother's Day, Charity, Childhood Cancer, Ronald McDonald House, Ronald McDonald House of Memphis, Mother's Day Gifts, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Impact News

Mark Hyman, MD: Sugar Babies: The Rise Of 'Adult Onset' Diabetes In Children

2012-05-12T10:17:47Z

What are you doing in your home, your family, in your schools and communities to end the attack on our children and our nation's future? We have the power to take back our health.

Read more: Nutrition, Food as Medicine, Type 2 Diabetes, Food Stamps, Healthy School Lunches, Sugar Consumption, Childhood Obesity, Type 2 Diabetes Children, Diet and Nutrition, School Lunches, Sugar, Healthy Living News