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My doctor’s call came early last month just as I was completing a column noting that 41 percent of Americans come down with cancer. That statistic felt as remote as a puff of cloud in the stratosphere — until my physician, Gary Raizes, gently...
A largely ignored contaminant doesn’t just resemble bisphenol A, the chemical found to leach out of hard plastic water bottles. It’s BPA’s fluorinated twin — on steroids.
BPA's structure resembles a pair of spectacles with two methyl, or CH3,...
Scientists Cite Advances on Two Kinds of Cancer
CHICAGO — Using two opposite strategies, one focused and one broad, scientists say they have made progress in taming two of the most intractable types of cancer.
The focused approach shrank...
For years we have been told that smoking is harmful for our health, yet people continue to smoke. You would think all the statistics would scare people from smoking, after all who wants a black lung? Personally, I think the warning labels on...
Dense breast tissue is comprised of less fat and more connective tissue which appears white on a mammogram. Cancer also appears white on a mammogram thus tumors are often hidden behind the dense tissue. As a woman ages, her breasts usually...
