breast

    By Melly Alazraki

    | 4:20PM 11/17/2009
    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,...

    By Melly Alazraki

    | 4:20PM 10/19/2009
    Drugmaker Amgen (AMGN) did not win the Food & Drug Administration's approval on Monday for its experimental osteoporosis treatment denosumab. Amgen, based in Thousand Oaks, Calif., had been banking on the drug's approval for company growth, but the FDA asked for more information before making a...

    By Andrea Chalupa

    | 1:00PM 10/14/2009
    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...