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BLOG: This weekend: Healthy, Yummy Spa for Your Little Divas!

Chocolate facials, brown sugar body scrub, lemon lip gloss~ sounds delicious!  Whipping up home spa creations with your kids is a great way to slow down, relax, and enjoy a ...

Skin Cancer Doesn’t Discriminate

Ivis Febus-Sampayo (center) with members of her immediate family (Courtesy, Ivis Febus-Sampayo) The mole on Ivis Febus-Sampayo's face looked odd. But it wasn't until her son needed treatment for acne ...

Study Lets the Sun in on Vitamin D as Cancer Fighter

Of the many nutrients needed to stay healthy, vitamin D seems to be having a moment in the spotlight. More than 1,000 clinical studies are currently examining its role in ...

Less Invasive Breast Cancer Surgery Equally Effective, Study Shows

Women with early breast cancer who had some of their lymph nodes removed had the same survival rates as women who had a more aggressive surgery to remove all of ...

Panel Urges Fight Against Cancer In Poor Countries At Clinton Global Initiative

(RTTNews) - A special session at the Clinton Global Initiative summit in New York addressed the overlooked public health crisis of cancer in the developing world. Studies have shown that almost ...

Gene studies zero in on breast, ovarian cancer risk

LONDON (Reuters) – Scientists have found a region of DNA that can increase or decrease the high chance of breast cancer linked to a particular gene variant - a finding ...

Screening: Many Skip Follow-Up Tests for Colon Cancer

Almost half of patients who undergo fecal blood tests to screen for colon and rectal cancer fail to follow up with a repeat test within two years as recommended, a ...

I Have Breast Cancer… Now What?

How to Get Answers to the Most Important Medical and Health Questions Download image SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- An estimated 207,090 women in the U.S. will be diagnosed ...

June’s Chili Con Grass-Fed Carne

Original recipe by C. Lair 2009. This is an adaption of my mom’s recipe coupled with instructions from The Joy of Cooking.  When it starts to get chilly outside, of ...

Genetic Connection Between Endometriosis and Ovarian Cancer Found

A new cancer gene mutation - ARID1A - has been found which links endometriosis to two types of ovarian cancer, researchers report in an article published in the New England ...

Dangers in Household Cleaning Products to be Exposed

ALBANY, N.Y. - Environmental and health organizations went to court a year ago to try to force the makers of hundreds of well-known household cleaners to reveal what dangerous chemicals ...

Cancer Prevention: Rethink Your Diet as Well as Your Smoking

If everyone were to quit smoking today, nearly 450,000 fewer Americans would die annually from smoking-related diseases. Yet even with all the smoking bans across the country, one in five ...

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