Cancer News

President Obama's vision for making health care in America more effective and efficient collided for the first time last week with the realities and peculiarities of the nation's health-care system.
 
Cervical cancer screening can wait till 21, group says (Post, November 20, 2009)
 
White House backs off cancer test guidelines (Post, November 19, 2009)
 
Breast exam guidelines now call for less testing: Change debated
Potential harm of frequent mammograms outweighs benefit, task force says
(Post, November 17, 2009)
 
Family history can hint at how the future will shape up (Post, October 27, 2009)
 
Don't wait for a cure to appear: As someone with chronic fatigue syndrome, I had to change my life to get relief (Post, October 27, 2009)
 
A Sticky Issue for Anyone Fond of Fondue and Other Cheesy Delights (By Jennifer LaRue Huget, October 13, 2009)
 
How a Public Option Saved My Life: Universal-Coverage Law Was One of the Miracles That Kept Me Going (Post, October 13, 2009)
 
Artists Hail Courage of Cancer Patients (Post, October 13, 2009)
 
Scientists' Genetic Work Earns Nobel Prize: Three Americans Share Award For Medicine (Post, October 6, 2009)
 
Adding Up The Radiation From Scans (Post, October 6, 2009)
 
That'll Be $418 For Use of the Examining Room: 'Facility Fees' Are Taking Many Patients by Surprise (Post, October 6, 2009)
 
When Eating Right Is A Grass-Roots Effort (By Jennifer LaRue Huget, October 6, 2009)
 
The Checkup: Health in the News and in Your Life (Post, September 15, 2009)
 
The Checkup: Health in the News and in Your Life (Post, September 8, 2009)
 
Lab Produces Monkeys With 2 Mothers: Research May Help Women With Genetic Disorders but Raises Ethical Questions (Post, August 27, 2009)
 
Packing a Heavier Warning: Elsewhere, Cigarette Boxes Bear Graphic Evidence of Smoking's Ill Effects; U.S. Labels Will Soon Do the Same (Post, August 4, 2009)
 
Millions of Children In U.S. Found to Be Lacking Vitamin D: Links to Diabetes, Heart Disease Examined (Post, August 3, 2009)
 
Blaming the Hospital, A Widow Turns Activist: She Says the Staff Was Unresponsive (Post, July 21, 2009)
 
A Cancer Patient's Perspective: Focus on Enhancing The System's Assets (Post, July 21, 2009)
 
An Appetizing Reason to Take a Flexible Stance on Vegetarianism (By Jennifer LaRue Huget, July 14, 2009)
 
Blacks With Equal Care Still More Likely to Die of Some Cancers (Post, July 8, 2009)
 
'Frequent Fliers' Add Billions to Hospital Bills (Post, June 30, 2009)
 
The Checkup: Health in the News and in Your Life (Post, June 30, 2009)
 
Tomorrow's Pain Will Come Soon Enough: Aided by a Proponent of Mindfulness, a Cancer Patient Learns to Focus on the Joys of Today (Post, June 30, 2009)
 
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