Skip the Hotdogs; Help Your HeartBeth Fontenot, MS, RD, LDN
Processed red meats raise the risk of heart trouble — and death — by a lot. Have a fish taco.
Read more >Charlotte LoBuono
Breast cancer screening may soon be far more accurate and far more reassuring.
Read more >Beth Fontenot, MS, RD, LDN
Several studies find nutritional supplements provide little or no benefit. But not everyone agrees.
Read more >Esther Entin, M.D.
Women, like Angelina Jolie, and men with BRAC gene mutations have much higher risk for breast cancer.
Read more >Michael J. Gertner
When we eat right, exercise and receive emotional support, even our chromosomes look younger.
Read more >Nancy A. Phillips, M.D. and Gloria A. Bachmann, M.D.
Pain during sex is a common experience among older women, but it doesn't have to be that way.
Read more >Michael J. Gertner
A lab catastrophe leads to a discovery that may give "fat farm" new meaning — stem cells from fat cells.
Read more >Esther Entin, M.D.
You can't see, smell or taste these environmental toxins. But even lose doses can cause cancer.
Read more >Charlotte LoBuono
Tea is a plant food. And much like a serving of fruit or vegetables, it provides important health benefits.
Read more >Nicole A. Shonka, M.D. and Mark R. Gilbert, M.D.
Chemotherapies for glioblastomas aim to prevent tumor cell growth or promote cell death.
Read more >Parvin Peddi, M.D., and Andrea Wang-Gillam, M.D.
The death of Steve Jobs made more people aware of pancreatic cancer, but it remains tough to treat.
Read more >Neil Wagner
For most men the risks connected with PSA tests for prostate cancer outweigh the benefits.
Read more >Alice G. Walton
Disease clusters were made famous by Erin Brockovich, but they are harder to pinpoint than you might think.
Read more >Susan H. Scher, MD
Pap tests save lives, but new guidelines urge women to be tested less often. It's safer.
Read more >Yevgeniya Ioffe, M.D., and Israel Zighelboim, M.D
Endometrial carcinoma can be detected early if you know what to look for.
Read more >Neil Wagner
Some studies of supplements actually found they increase the risk of death. But it may depend on how you crunch the numbers.
Read more >Beth Fontenot, MS, RD, LDN
Eating a wide variety of plant foods is the best way to fend off the oxidation that "rusts" our cells.
Read more >Alice G. Walton
Coffee reduces the risk for cancers — some cancers, anyway. But is coffee always good for you?
Read more >Alice G. Walton
Some of the connections between genes and disease that we accept as fact may not be so strong after all.
Read more >Esther Entin, M.D.
Sun exposure in childhood and adolescence than can set the stage for skin cancers and problems later.
Read more >Alice G. Walton
CT scans can detect lung cancer early and save lives, but there are risks and costs to be weighed.
Read more >Robin Baradarian, M.D., FACG
A primer on colon cancer screening, from virtual colonoscopies to the real thing. Don't sweat it. Do it.
Read more >Jennifer Barrick, M.S., C.G.C., Nancie Petrucelli, M.S., C.G.C., and Michael S. Simon, M.D., M.P.H.
Genetics plays a role in breast cancer risk, so do other hereditary syndromes. Learn what to look for.
Read more >Neil Wagner
CT scans have benefits, but they also have some very real cancer risks.
Read more >Renata Urban, M.D., and Jonathan S. Berek, M.D., M.M.S.
By the time most women seek treatment for epithelial ovarian cancer, the disease has already reached an advanced stage.
Read more >Tom Gilbert
It is important to know if the information you are gathering on the Web is from a credible source.
Read more >Frederick Sweet, Ph.D.
Smoking, Quitting and GeneticsEric Siu, M.Sc., Nael Al Koudsi, H.B.Sc., Man Ki Ho, H.B.Sc., Rachel F. Tyndale, M.Sc., Ph.D
Nicotine's addictive properties are a result of the activation of the special receptors in the brain.
Read more >Susan C. Stewart, M.D.
Modern medicine's battle against cervical cancer is a tale of two worlds.
Read more >Woondong Jeong, M.D., Brier Rolando, M.D., and Robert G. Lerner, M.D.
Woondong Jeong is a hematology/oncology fellow, Brier Rolando is an internal medicine resident and Robert G.
Read more >Dharmen Patel, M.D., Lawrence Shapiro, M.D., and Robert G. Lerner, M.D.
Both women AND men can get breast cancer from inherited breast cancermutations.
Read more >Rami Y. Haddad, M.D.
Earky detection is important for prostate cancer. All men 50+ should havean annual digital rectal exam.
Read more >Manoj Mittal, M.D., and Joseph H. Flaherty, M.D
Sit the terminally ill patient upright if they're having trouble breathing.
Read more >Leo Zacharski, M.D., and Robert G. Lerner, M.D.
Heparin may be the most effective treatment for cancer patients with bloodclots in their legs.
Read more >Robert G. Lerner, M.D.
Testicular cancer is the most common malignancy in young adult males.
Read more >Susan C. Stewart, M.D.
There is an odd perception that colorectal cancer (CRC) is a man's disease.
Read more >Susan C. Stewart, M.D.
Everyone of us has had a friend or relative concerned about their family history of breast cancer.
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