cancer prevention
"The American people -- even before they are born -- are bombarded continually with myriad combinations of these dangerous exposures," the President's Cancer Panel says. And that means more spending on prevention in addition to treatment.
Two-Thirds of Voters Favor a $1 Tax Hike on a Pack of Cigarettes
7:00PM 2/10/2010
A new nationwide poll finds that two-thirds of U.S. voters support a $1 increase in tobacco taxes per pack. The tax could raise more than $9.1 billion in new annual revenue for states, says the report released by a coalition of public health organizations claims.
Promising New Developments on the Breast Cancer Front
5:30PM 12/14/2009
Company News, Technology, Health Care, Sanofi Aventis, GlaxoSmithKline
The San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, held Dec. 9-13, brought mostly good news for breast cancer patients and drugmakers. And that's a welcome development: Aside from non-melanoma skin cancer, breast cancer is the most common form of cancer in women and the second-leading cause of cancer death...
Cancer killed fewer Europeans in the first half of this decade, largely thanks to a decrease in smoking. A new study finds that while death rates from cancer varied between men and women and among countries, they generally improved in all major European nations.
The study, published Monday in the...
A recent New York Times story is chilling enough to certainly turn the health care world upside down.
The message: Cancer screenings might not save lives. In a shocking and polarizing move, the American Cancer Society is backpedaling on cancer screenings, amending its previous stance that...
At 43, Marisa Acocella Marchetto finally had life in its place: she was getting married for the first time and her cartoons were in demand by The New Yorker. Suddenly all of her success took a back seat to breast cancer, which she had to fight without health insurance. Marchetto captured this...
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