Television 'Jeopardy!' Host Alex Trebek Says He Has Pancreatic Cancer Pancreatic cancer has low survival rates, but Trebek stayed positive and joked about his three-year hosting obligation under his contract. James Doubek
Health Vitamin D And Fish Oil Supplements Mostly Disappoint In Long-Awaited Research Results After years of debate, a major government funded study failed to find any overall benefit of taking widely used supplements to protect against heart disease or cancer. Patti Neighmond
Health She Chose To 'Go Flat' And Wants Other Breast Cancer Survivors To Know They Can Too After her double mastectomy, writer Catherine Guthrie came to embrace her new body, without breast reconstruction. But, she has learned, women have to push the medical system to support this choice. Rachel D. Cohen
10 months later: 'There's hope after a cancer diagnosis' Ten months ago, Alexes Harris' health was precarious . She'd just had a stem cell transplant in the hopes of combating a rare form of leukemia. The... Katherine Banwell
The article that changed one cancer researcher's career path Dr. Fred Appelbaum started his career in the 1970s when leukemia patients were given months to live. He worked with Dr. Don Thomas, a researcher at Fred... Ruby de Luna
Seattle doctor’s radical idea saves 70,000 people a year There was a time when the cure for leukemia was almost as lethal as the disease. Before bone marrow transplants, patients were treated with arsenic or... Ruby de Luna
Take a selfie, help screen yourself for cancer University of Washington researchers have created a smartphone app that could help users screen themselves for a range of diseases, including pancreatic... Kate OConnell
My mom lost her beautiful black hair, but it actually didn’t suck My mom’s hair has always been a source of pride for her.
You want technology? Then pay for scientific research Let's talk for a minute about how invention works in our world. One way to divide the process of inventing is into 1) basic science research, and 2)... Daniel Vandervelde
