Downsizing Your Breasts: A New Surgical Approach to Breast Cancer
A study conducted several years ago showed that breast reductions in general reduced the risk of breast cancer in women who were at high ris...

Autism s Not Like the Measles
If you haven t already read Measles not worth the risk, an October 6th op-ed by epidemiologist John Laurence Kiely, go here. Kiely recalls...

Will genetic testing motivate you to healthier life?
With genetic testing companies sprouting everywhere, people now have the resource to know their risks for certain types of disease. Companie...

ImClone vs. GM — No Contest on Market Capitalization
Here s an unreality check to give some perspective of the carnage on Wall Street: The market cap of biotech upstart ImClone Systems is nea...

Mercks Gardasil Given to 1 in 4 Teenage Girls
It was only in March of last year that a national experts committee recommended that teenage girls get vaccinated with Merck s Gardasil...

Ethnicity's Influence on Breast Cancer
Breast cancer is predominantly a disease of the economically developed world, but rates are rising in Asia and economically developing count...

Fecal DNA tests
As a follow-up to my post on the updated USPSTF guidelines on colon cancer screening, a reader asks me to comment on fecal DNA tests, which ...

Does BPA interfere with breast cancer treatment?
The health concerns about bisphenol-A (BPA), a component of hard polycarbonate plastic, has been extended once again (see here, here, here f...

Storm-petrel DNA Gives Clues to Cellular Aging
At Bucknell University Mark Haussmann has been studying the DNA of storm-petrels, seabirds that have unusually long lives. From a Bucknell p...