Top 10 Weird Hair Stories of the Year
Midbrain Meanders While the rest of the Beauty Brains take the day off to run errands and even marathons, it s up to me to put up today ...

Checking the Facts on Insurance Coverage of Hair Transplants
Are hair transplants really covered by health insurance? The Health Blog wondered after hearing presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain slam t...

Prostatic Acid Phosphatase May One Day Replace Morphine for Pain Control
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine and the University of Helsinki have collaborated on a project that identified...

Feds to Crack Down on Narcotics Sales Online
Regulation is becoming all the rage these days, what with the second-guessing of the financial markets. Online pharmacies that sell controll...

Milk and Meat Up Prostate Cancer-Risk
A new study, by Oxford University, claims a meat and dairy diet might BOOST a man s risk of prostate cancer. Scientists attribute the incr...

Pfizer Fires at Unauthorized Viagra PR Missile in Court
We re sorry to say we missed the one-float parade that consisted of an unauthorized Viva Viagra missile making the rounds in Manhattan las...

Colonoscopies Not Recommended After Age 75
The utility of cancer screening over the course of a lifetime follows a sort of bell curve. Now federal guidelines suggest that most people ...

Should kids be tested for the cancer gene?
Mothers who tested positive for breast cancer gene are now asking a tough question - should we test the kids?Women with a faulty gene have a...

Dendreon Shares Climb on Promising Prostate Cancer Data
Dendreon is back. The beleaguered biotech reported that its prostate cancer vaccine Provenge cut the risk of death by 20% compared with a pl...