This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Suppose you wanted to sabotage Obamacare and could not get Congress to help. Short of repeal legislation, the next best strategy would be to cut off funds to health insurers—in…
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. Both chambers unanimously passed the Clay Hunt Suicide Prevention for American Veterans Act, sending the bill to the president for his signature. The bill aims to improve mental-health and suicide-prevention…
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. William Li presents a new way to think about treating cancer and other diseases: anti-angiogenesis, preventing the growth of blood vessels that feed a tumor. The crucial first (and best)…
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. When a receptionist hands out a form to fill out at a doctor’s office, the questions are usually about medical issues: What’s the visit for? Are you allergic to anything?…
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…