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Want to Look and Feel Better This Year While Lowering Your Cancer Risk? Get Moving
If you are among the millions of people who vowed to start the new year by getting in shape so you can look and feel great, there’s even more good ...
Blood Test May Be Able to Spot Lurking Cancer Cell
A blood test so sensitive that it can spot a single cancer cell lurking among a billion healthy ones is moving one step closer to being available at your doctor's ...
J&J Seeks to Market New Cancer Screening Device
Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) is teaming up with researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital to market a microchip-based test that could detect cancer cells in blood, a potentially revolutionary initiative for ...
Which types of cancer are hereditary?
Q: Which types of cancer are hereditary? A. “Fortunately, cancer itself is not hereditary, but the susceptibility to cancer is,’’ says Dr. Judy Garber, director of the Center for Cancer ...
Cancer Prevention Works
The recent Annual Report to the Nation featuring colon cancer trends (http://bit.ly/ccF9ma) highlights the success of prevention in reducing colorectal cancer incidence and mortality. Colorectal cancer is the third most ...
Preventing Cancer: Who Has Time?
As we struggle to deliver 200% at work each day and come home and offer the same to our children and spouses, it can be easy to let the choices ...
Hexavalent Chromium, Cancer-Causing Toxin, Common in Tap Water: What to Do
(CBS) Americans worried about the safety of their drinking water may have new cause for alarm. A new study shows that tens of millions of us are drinking water contaminated ...
Quit smoking in 2011: 5 steps you need to know
If you smoke, quitting the habit is the best New Year’s resolution you could make — and keep — in 2011. That’s true even if you’re just a social smoker. ...
Holiday Exercise Tips
For many, the holidays equal shopping, quality time with family and gorging on cookies, cakes and holiday feasts. While the hustle and bustle of the season may tempt you to ...
In Memoriam of Elizabeth Edwards
"Elizabeth Edwards was an inspiration. The trials she faced in her life made her someone who all Americans could relate to. Like many strong women before her, women like Gilda ...
Obama Signs Child Nutrition Bill Into Law as Part of Anti-Obesity Push
AP Dec. 2: A Fairmeadow Elementary School student orders pepperoni pizza during a school lunch program in Palo Alto, Calif. Obama signed into law a bill Dec. 13 that would ...
Outsmart Breast Cancer
Nine steps that make a difference — from eating the right vegetables (not all are equal) to taking the correct supplements Here's the good news about breast cancer: No matter ...
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