October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and many manufacturers and media outlets haven’t waited for the first of the month to blanket America in pink. You can buy anything from a “Save the Ta-Tas” T-shirt to a pink punching bag to support the cause.
Inevitably, with cancer awareness months comes a surge of public opinion that […]
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A state-run breast malignant neoplastic disease organisation is offering $23 million in grants to men of science studying the environmental causes of breast malignant neoplastic disease and why some groupings of women look to be at greater hazard based on their ethnicity or where they live.
The Golden State Breast Cancer Research Program announced […]
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I recently returned from an American Association of Cancer Research conference held in Washington DC, Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research. I was very grateful for the invitation. I attended the conference as part of the AACR’s Scientist-Survivor Program. The program is a wonderful one, I am very privileged to be a part of it. I […]
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Despite significant research showing the benefits of some complementary and alternative treatments such as acupuncture, they are still considered outside the mainstream…
Follow the link to the audio podcast from Dr. Michael Wilkes. He does a weekly commentary on politics and ethics in medicine on KCRW.
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“If you’re using blood money, you need to tell people you’re using blood money…”
Dr. Claudia Ingrid Henschke, a professor of radiology and Chief of the Chest Imaging Division of the Weill-Cornell Medical Center of New York-Presbyterian Hospital, is at the center of an exploding research scandal for having accepted tobacco company funding for a study […]
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Over the past 20 years, the incidence of esophageal cancer, a highly fatal form of cancer, has rapidly increased in the United States. A recent research study has linked chronic, longstanding, […]
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Late in the afternoon on Friday, AAI got the following report from Dawn Glanc’s team in Alaska. Dawn was selected as one of four climbers to climb an unnamed and unclimbed peak in Alaska in order to raise awareness of cancer research.
The four mountaineers attempting an unclimbed mountain in Glacier Bay National Park […]
Today on C-Span:The Senate Commerce Consumer Affairs Subcmte. is looking at the health hazards caused by chemicals found in plastic products. Water bottles and other common household items often contain bisphenol-A (BPA), a chemical that leaches out of plastic and may be harmful to consumers. Sen. Mark Pryor (D-AR) chairs the hearing. A couple […]