Three years ago I beat back prostate cancer, and I owe it all to the Bragg Peak.

Bragg Peak is not the name of a mountain, but of a remarkable physical principle, named for William Bragg, a British physicist who discovered it in 1903. It makes it possible for doctors...

More than a quarter of a million men in the United States are newly diagnosed with prostate cancer each year. They deserve the best and most appropriate treatment they can get. Instead, many rush to embrace treatment methods that may not be the best for them.

A recent AMA...

My great-great-grandfather's grandfather Obadiah Curtis (1724-1811; does anyone name their child Obadiah any more?) was one of the scores of men (Paul Revere was another) who, on the night of December 16, 1773, adorned their faces with war paint, put on feather headdresses, boarded three British ships in Boston Harbor,...

The "New START" nuclear arms control treaty signed on April 8 by Presidents Obama and Medvedev is now moving towards ratification by the Russian and United States governments. Now comes the hard part: selling it to the American people and the 67 Senators who must approve the treaty before President...

A German friend, a former foreign editor, international affairs scholar and a colleague from my years working in Washington on arms control in the 1960s and '70s, e-mailed this week to ask what I thought about the passage of the health bills. He wrote, "I am dismayed by the international...