Tag: cancer
Marijuana is a lot more than just THC – a pharmacologist...
James David Adams, University of Southern California
Medical marijuana is legal in 33 states as of November 2018. Yet the federal government still insists marijuana...
People diagnosed with cancer often don’t embrace the term ‘survivor’
Leonard L. Berry, Texas A&M University ; Andrea Flynn, University of San Diego, and Scott Davis, University of Houston-Downtown
“Cancer survivor” has become a catch-all...
When it comes to brain tumors, a patient’s sex matters
Joshua Rubin, Washington University in St Louis
Have you ever wondered why, in most species, males are larger and more ornamented than females? It’s an...
Beating breast cancer only to die of opioid use – a...
Rajesh Balkrishnan, University of Virginia
The availability of life-prolonging treatments such as hormonal therapies and other targeted chemotherapy has led to a sharp decline in...
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...
EXPLORING NATURE
Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the...
Jonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Vijay Limaye, University of Wisconsin-Madison
