Women worried about breast cancer have just one concern: What can they do to reduce the risk of dying from the disease?
One answer is to get regular mammograms. Over the past 15 years, that advice has saved thousands of lives.…
Dan Callahan
It began with a little black spot on Dan Callahan’s lower lip. He didn’t think it was anything to worry about. His doctor thought it was cancer.
The doctor was right.
It was neurotropic melanoma, a very rare — and very…
The federal government finally will regulate cigarette manufacturing and marketing. That’s long overdue, as anyone familiar with the tobacco industry’s shameful history can attest.
President Barack Obama — an occasional smoker who admits that he still struggles daily with his nicotine…
Indian children where skull masks at an anti-tobacco rally in Calcutta.
Cigarettes are a potent delivery device for the drug nicotine. But unlike most other drugs in widespread use, nicotine isn’t regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
This week, the…
Smokers began paying dramatically higher prices yesterday. The federal cigarette tax jumped by 62 cents a pack overnight, to $1.01. Levies on other tobacco products also rose.
Obviously, smokers are upset. But this is an excellent opportunity to do what most…
Doctor and patient discuss the results of a heart scan.
Americans who have such chronic illnesses as heart disease, diabetes and depression are less likely to get the care and treatment they need than people in seven other advanced countries. And…
Dear Editor: I am 8 years old. I saw on TV that eating hot dogs and other processed meats will give me colorectal cancer. Papa says, ‘If you see it on the Post-Dispatch editorial page, it’s so.’ Please tell me…
You can sometimes learn the funniest things about the mating behavior of people by studying the mating behavior of fish. Case in point: a study of swordtail mating behavior in this week’s Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Swordtails are small…
The older you get, the more likely you are to develop a chronic illness such as heart disease, high blood pressure or cancer. The more chronic illnesses you have, the more health care you need.
The inevitability of illness is why…
Evolution is, by definition, a series of small changes that occur over long periods of time. At least, that’s how scientists since the time of Charles Darwin always have regarded it.
But a new study suggests that the word “long” may not belong in…
