As a breast cancer survivor, I feel particularly qualified to assert my opinion on the latest U. S. Preventive Services Task Force's guidelines regarding mammograms. I'm uncertain at this point exactly whose best interests are served by this organization, but as one whose "starting annual mammograms at age 40" prevented "one additional death," I hope my story merits publication in your newspaper. ...more

November 20, 2009

Before fire, there was only raw food. In recent years, a number of Americans have embraced this diet. A diet of raw foods, sometimes called living foods, involves eating whole, unprocessed raw foods. Most raw foodists are vegans, but some may eat meat, fish or dairy products. ...more

November 4, 2009

An average of 17 times a day, I enter an automobile, twist my arthritic hip and stretch my bursitis ridden shoulder to place a safety harness across my med port. The port is plumbed directly into my heart for chemotherapy. My surgeon told me that a medium level impact while wearing my seat belt would probably unplug the port. Death would occur in about three minutes. ...more

August 29, 2009

The days of one-size-fits-all cancer treatment are numbered: A rush of new research is pointing the way to tailor chemotherapy and other care to what's written in your tumor's genes. ...more

February 16, 2009

North Carolina State's Kay Yow, the Hall of Fame women's basketball coach who won more than 700 games while earning fans with her decades-long fight against breast cancer, died on Saturday. She was 66. ...more

January 24, 2009

EDITOR'S NOTE: In Part 1, chef Grant Achatz's Chicago restaurant, Alinea, has been named by Gourmet magazine as the best restaurant in the country. All is going well when Achatz is diagnosed with tongue cancer. ...more

July 2, 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

Jordan Gann, a con artist serving a sentence for stealing from a woman in Hillsborough County while posing as a doctor, was given a longer sentence Tuesday for doing the same thing to a woman in Pinellas County. ...more

June 4, 2008

CLEARWATER - Jordan Gann, a con artist serving a sentence for stealing from a woman in Hillsborough County while posing as a doctor, was given a second and longer sentence today after doing the same thing to a woman in Pinellas County. ...more

June 3, 2008

I'll never forget the day my 33-year-old daughter Michelle was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. ...more

May 11, 2008