Tag: cancer
Does Monsanto’s Roundup cause cancer? Trial highlights the difficulty of proving...
Richard G. "Bugs" Stevens, University of Connecticut
Does glyphosate, the active ingredient in the widely used weedkiller Roundup, cause non-Hodgkin lymphoma? This question is at...
An ethical dilemma for doctors: When is it OK to prescribe...
Travis N. Rieder, Johns Hopkins University
America’s opioid crisis is getting worse. The role of prescription opioids has both the medical establishment and the government...
Want to fix America’s health care? First, focus on food
Dariush Mozaffarian, Tufts University
The national debate on health care is moving into a new, hopefully bipartisan phase.
The fundamental underlying challenge is cost...
Our obsession with hereditary cancers didn’t start when….
Our obsession with hereditary cancers didn't start when we discovered the breast cancer gene
Devon Stillwell, Johns Hopkins University
Angelina Jolie received much public attention for...
The compound behind all those stories about red wine being good...
By Mohit Kumar Jolly, Rice University
If you’re a teetotaller, your friends have likely tried to convince you to taste red wine by swearing on...
Could leading anti-malarial be used as an experimental treatment for bowel...
By Sanjeev Krishna, St George's, University of London
While the medical world is transfixed by the urgency of finding and testing new potential treatments for...
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Mothers in prison aren’t likely to see their families this Thanksgiving...
Jill McCorkel, Villanova University
On a mid-October morning, I drove from Philadelphia to State Correctional Institution Muncy, Pennsylvania’s oldest and largest women’s prison.
The prison,...
