All men and women of a certain age have been encouraged for years to get prostate or breast cancer screenings. But all those screenings have led to some false positives and overtreatment. Some slow-growing cancers would never prove to be…

As reported in the Lancet over half of babies born this century will live to over 100 years. Available data suggests that most of them will be functional, but with many minor diseases between 60 to 85 years. After 85,…

The Siteman Cancer Center, a division of Barnes-Jewish Hospital, wants to remind the public that it offers screenings for people at risk for pancreatic cancer.
Monday’s death of 57-year-old Patrick Swayze has garnered new attention for the disease, the fourth deadliest cancer. Swayze died…

This blog is written from Holland, where I just gave the keynote address at a Conference at Radboud University in Nijmegen. The conference focused on the science of movement. As succinctly put by the organizer, Professor Sander Geurts “The motto…

As I awoke this morning, I heard Mr Limbaugh pointing out that if we did not think that Governor Palin was right about “death panels”, the Veterans Administration already had nurses doing this. When I recovered from realizing that this…

Check a website, Tributes.com, that deals with how to handle grief and loss. Of interest is a segment by David Kessler, grief and loss specialist for Tributes.com on what to say when someone has lost a loved one.
“Many of us…

A report published this week in the medical journal Lancet Oncology provides the strongest evidence yet that tanning bed use is linked to skin cancer, but there are plenty of folks out there willing to take the risk in order…

If you relish hot dogs, beware. The Cancer Project so firmly believes you should fear frankfurters that last week it sued meat makers to force them to label wieners with cancer warnings.

The move comes just a few weeks after the same group caused a stir…

Normally, I don’t quote directly from anything I read, but the American Cancer Society recently released “Cancer Facts & Figures for African Americans 2009-2009″ was pretty clear. So:

“African Americans have the highest death rate and shortest survival of any racial and ethnic…