American Cancer Society

Putting sunscreen on a squirmy kid is no day at the beach. Add some water wings and the call of the surf or pool and I've seen moms work faster than a pit crew at the Indy 500. It's a thankless, but important task. SkinCancer.org reports more than 90% of all skin cancers are caused by sun...

May is National Moving Month and an expected 40 million Americans will pack up and move onto a new place. Given that I've moved every single May for the past four years, I truly understand the pain behind the statement "pack up." I just moved over a course of four separate days for a total of...

If the experts can't agree on guidelines for breast cancer screening, then how are women supposed to decide? At the end of the day, the new guidelines from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, a panel of independent experts, have left women quite confused. Several other expert sources,...

Outside the grocery store the other day, a teen-age boy tried to sell me $50 in gift certificates at local restaurants -- restaurant meals, a fast-food taco, a margarita -- for $5. The money, he said, would go to fund high school athletics. I declined the offer, figuring I'd spend much more money...