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In 2013, Nick Mulcahy reported for Medscape that oncologists at the Duke Cancer Center used the term “financial toxicity” to…
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The Association of Health Care Journalists and the National Cancer Institute announced they will collaborate this year to present the…
Opioid addiction is at crisis levels in the United States. Over two million people are addicted to opioids, which include…
First there was the “dubious milestone,” as The New York Times called it, of black women for the first time…
For much of modern medical history, the elusive holy grail of medical research has been a “cure for cancer.” Today,…
“When you pry the bacon from my cold, dead, cancerous hands …” Some days it seems the press loves nothing…
Siobhan O’Connor recently explored in a Time magazine piece an issue that has been gaining traction in both the medical…
The public radio show “On the Media” recently devoted its entire hour to an insightful and poignant episode on cancer…
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The use of snuff and other smokeless tobacco products by American high school students is up significantly, even among high…
A lot has been said lately about the geography of health, with maps citing longevity by ZIP code, and other…