"The Big C" returns

I saw the cable cancer show, just once, last year, when it was launched. It was the only episode I could watch for free, since we don't...

The new fountain of youth

[This is how I would look having coffee in London in 1740 if I were male. I'm the one in the powdered wig and breeches.] All of us are t...

A cure for lymphedema?

A French doctor has pioneered the transfer of lymph nodes from the groin or other body area to the underarm in order to put a stop to lymphe...

News to me: estrogen is not the enemy

Two gynecologists have told my friend S she needs a hysterectomy, which she is scheduled to have in August. She told me that the docs told h...

So what did they expect?

Researchers in Portland, Oregon, found out that when people lost Medicaid dental benefits...they went to the dentist less, their dental hea...

Test problems

Ah, it can make life difficult from time to time when your basic fear is of annihilation. I'm afraid of my personality being squelched, ...