Regarding "Both McCain And Obama Offer Health-Insurance Headaches" (Our Opinion, Sept. 29): ...more

October 4, 2008

If they new how to trigger cell death, doctors would have a powerful tool for fighting cancer. On the other hand, if they knew how to block cell death, they would have an equally powerful tool with which to battle the ravages of aging. ...more

September 24, 2008

Nearly two-thirds of hospitals fail to check colon cancer patients well enough for signs their tumor is spreading, says a study that advises patients to ask about this mark of quality care before surgery. ...more

September 10, 2008

Christine Merrick's life turned upside-down and nearly slipped away from her last year. ...more

September 2, 2008

Nothing can take away the pain of losing a 15-year-old daughter to leukemia, but the family of a former Burney Elementary School student knows she won't be forgotten at the school she loved. ...more

August 13, 2008

Researchers at California Institute of Technology have developed a "microscope on a chip" using an inexpensive magnifying system that relies on a light-sensing chip instead of lenses to achieve the power of a conventional microscope. ...more

August 2, 2008

Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., made a dramatic return to the Capitol on Wednesday to help the Senate pass legislation that would rescind a sharp cut in Medicare payments to physicians. ...more

July 10, 2008

TAMPA A Tampa couple are in the running for a $100,000 wedding courtesy of Us Magazine. They are pitted against 19 other couples from across the nation baring their lives to the public in hopes of garnering enough votes to be hitched in style. The contest is online and in living color at www.usmagazine.com/wedding-2008-top-20, and as of this morning Courtney Dempsey and Gary Courtney Jr., have garnered about 90,000 votes. ...more

June 23, 2008

It's a lot of money, $100,000. Gulfcoast Oncology Foundation, a Bay area charity for cancer patients, has been promised that sum - if it can raise enough money to match the donation. Director Jane Morse-Swett says the foundation is about halfway there. ...more

June 21, 2008

Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy emerged from the most precarious period after surgery to treat a brain tumor without any complications, spending Tuesday walking hospital hallways, spending time with his family and "keeping up with the news of the day," his office said. ...more

June 4, 2008