Study shows chemotherapy improves survival among older breast ca...

Drug-resistant gonorrhea becoming serious problem
Researchers are issuing more dire warnings about the growing threat of multi-drug-resistant gonorrhea in the US, according to a new paper published the New England Journal of Medicine.

University of Maryland finds restricting post-surgery...
(University of Maryland Medical Center) More than half of the older, anemic patients in a New England Journal of Medicine study did not need blood transfusions as they recovered from hip...

Clinical trial shows first evidence that anal cancer...
(University of California - San Francisco) A large, international clinical trial led by doctors at the University of California, San Francisco indicates that a vaccine to prevent anal cancer...

The Breast Cancer Prevention Diet: The Powerful...
Until recently, there was little women could do to prevent breast cancer. After years of research, nutrition is emerging as one of the most important weapons to fight this deadly disease....

It's Not About the Hair: And Other Certainties of...
For more than two decades, author Debra Jarvis has counseled cancer patients in her work as a chaplain. Then, in an ironic twist, she herself was diagnosed with Stage II breast cancer. This...