Surprise, surprise

[Smile when you smash that breast!] OK, I have to admit that I'm late with this news. I found it as I was filing away a page from the T...

Magic mushrooms & no magic bullet for patient communication

Johns Hopkins tells us that researchers are looking at illegal drugs to help people with OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder), PTSD (post-tr...

More confusion but you'd think there wouldn't be

[by the immortal Posada] I've been getting mammograms every six months for the remaining breast. Today I went again, and the procedure i...

Can cleaning products cause breast cancer?

Yes, maybe, sort of. Could be--according to a study just published in Environmental Health . Researchers conducted phone interviews in 1999 ...

[NYT photo; patient claims surgery was unnecessary] The New York Times tells us that that 17 percent of D.C.I.S. cases identified by a comm...

Single and want to be on TV?

Want to tell your cancer story on TV? This is a query from SIngle-Woman.tv, Query: Looking for stories from men and women who were single wh...

Son of Son of Meltdown/I am Zapped

One symptom of my polycythemia vera is itchy skin. All over? two people asked in one day. No, not all over. Not my hands or feet or face or...