by Sara Gates | May 17, 2013
We’ve talked before how learning about breast cancer can feel like learning a new language. There are many different types, different stages, and different risk factors involved, but perhaps no single term is more confusing than one particularly confounding...
by Sara Gates | May 15, 2013
A recent meta-study published in the British Medical Journal reveals some troubling findings: existing research suggests that women with breast implants are more likely to die from breast cancer than women without them. The news is troubling, but as usual,...
by Sara Gates | May 2, 2013
One of the newest weapons against breast cancer may already be sitting in your medicine cabinet. Researchers from the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Kansas City and the University of Kansas Medical Center presented new findings at an April medical conference that...
by Sara Gates | Apr 18, 2013
Smoking and lung cancer. The link between those two words has led to advertising restrictions, giant warning labels, and cleaner air in restaurants and bars across the country. Most people, even those crowded together under awnings to puff away on rainy days, know...
by Sara Gates | Apr 12, 2013
This April marks the twenty-sixth annual Alcohol Awareness Month, a longtime effort to raise awareness and understanding about the disease of alcoholism, sponsored by the National Council on Alcoholism And Drug Dependence. Schools and community organizations across...
