For the first time ever, three pharmaceutical companies are poised to test whether new drugs can work against a wide range of cancers independently of where they originated — breast, prostate, liver, lung. The drugs go after an...
Read MoreThe U.S. Surgeon General has issued calls for a nationwide health improvement program since 1979. The latest edition of this report, Healthy People 2020, contains a set of health goals and objectives for the nation to...
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Something about the culture in which we live often makes us feel that we are always the...
Read MoreIn May 2011, Cassandra Caton, an 18-year-old with honey-colored hair and the soft features of a child, suddenly went blind in her right eye. Five months later, an ophthalmologist noticed something disturbing. A large growth in...
Read MoreAmericans have been battling the bathroom scale for decades, and the scale is winning. The prevalence of both overweight and obesity has become epidemic in the United States. As people take in more calories than they burn,...
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