Many women with breast cancer want to do anything and everything to fight the disease as aggressively as possible — in fact, more and more are choosing preventive mastectomies even when their cancer is the noninvasive kind that hasn’t spread. But sometimes less treatment may be the healthiest decision — for instance, new research pinpoints… Continue reading Breast Cancer Update: Radiation or Not?
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Mad at Work? Don’t Have a Heart Attack
There’s a motto that many folks swear by at work — “Go along to get along” — and it suddenly looks like very bad advice. That’s because new research has found a link between suppressing workplace anger and increased risk for heart attack. In other words, holding anger inside at the office could literally kill… Continue reading Mad at Work? Don’t Have a Heart Attack
The Anticancer Diet
David Servan-Schreiber, MD, PhD University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine At any given time, the average person might have thousands of cancer cells in his/her body. Individually, these abnormal cells are harmless, but any one of them could potentially proliferate and form a mass of cells (a tumor) that damages normal tissues and can spread… Continue reading The Anticancer Diet
Health Rip-Off Tip-Offs
In our computerized world, crime gets ever more conceptual… as with medical identity theft. This is a type of fraud that occurs when someone “steals” the identity of a person with health insurance and then uses his/her name — and, in the latest twist, insurance coverage — to get treatment that can include doctor visits,… Continue reading Health Rip-Off Tip-Offs
Getting Back to Life After the Death of a Spouse
Phyllis Kosminsky, PhD Center for Hope The death of a spouse is among the greatest sources of grief. We not only lose the person who may be closest to us, we lose the person who most likely helped us function in the world and on whom we depended to help us through life’s traumas. The… Continue reading Getting Back to Life After the Death of a Spouse