This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. But early stage cancer doesn’t always produce symptoms. There are screening tests for some types of cancer, but not for most. Scientists at Johns Hopkins Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Pancreatic cancer has one of the worst prognoses — with a five-year survival rate of 9 percent — in part because there are no telltale symptoms or non-invasive screening tools to catch…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For those diagnosed with colorectal cancer, regular use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, or NSAIDs, is tied to longer survival, a new observational study shows. But that potentially protective link only…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Energy. If you’re not taking vitamin B12, forget about having energy. As The Dr. Oz Show has recommended, “End your energy crisis with Vitamin B12.” The nice thing about sublingual pills is…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Cancer is a very clever, adaptable disease. To defeat it, says medical researcher and educator Paula Hammond, we need a new and powerful mode of attack. With her colleagues at…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. With a net worth of $86 billion, Jeff Bezos certainly has enough money to change the world. What he’s lacked, apparently, was some direction for how to spend it. In…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Sen. John McCain has passed away after battling glioblastoma for over a year. The article below was originally published when McCain went public with his diagnosis.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Jimmy Lin is developing technologies to catch cancer months to years before current methods. He shares a breakthrough technique that looks for small signals of cancer’s presence via a simple…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Last month, advocates and survivors in the eating disorder community publicly worried that the film’s trailer might glamorize anorexia or include excessive triggering imagery. The National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) recommends against showing “dangerous…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. I’ve often wondered why it is that companies of every size and shape, across industries and geographies, take pride in differentiating their brands through supporting research on AIDS, breast cancer,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Last month, in a government building in Maryland, I put on virtual reality headset and got a glimpse of the future of medicine. That virtual reality model is just one…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Clinical trials underway at Fred Hutch and elsewhere of CAR T cells for cancer have shown promising early results. These still-experimental therapies genetically reprogram a patient’s own T cells —…