Mar 01 Watch 4:03 New cancer treatments target disease-causing mutations By PBS News Hour Some cutting-edge research is giving new hope to cancer patients. Researchers are zeroing in on the causes of specific cancers and are finding dramatically different ways to fight the disease. To explain the latest findings, Dr. David Hyman from the… Continue watching
Feb 19 Chemical used to color sodas linked to cancer risk By Anna Sillers The brown coloring in your soda may be linked to increased cancer risk, according to a new study. Continue reading
Jan 28 How playing with dangerous x-rays led to the discovery of radiation treatment for cancer By Dr. Howard Markel When the German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen’s announced his discovery of the x-ray in December of 1895, he was lauded on the front page of just about every newspaper in the world. Indeed, many journalists called this phenomenon “X-Ray… Continue reading
Jan 02 Watch 4:11 Luck, not lifestyle, may be to blame for more cancers than previously thought By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jan 02 Bad luck, not genes or the environment, cause for many cancers, researchers find By Margaret Myers, Jason Kane Sometimes there just isn’t a good explanation for a cancer diagnosis other than random bad luck. That’s what researchers at Johns Hopkins have found. In a study published Thursday in the journal Science, oncologist Dr. Bert Vogelstein and biomathematician Cristian… Continue reading
Nov 07 Scientists create immortal human cells to understand how cancer works By Colleen Shalby Until now, the science behind cell immortality has been relatively unknown, despite its significance to cancer. But the Cell Cycle journal recently reported that researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed a new way… Continue reading
Oct 14 Watch Should terminally ill patients be able to choose when they die? By PBS News Hour After being diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, 29-year-old Brittany Maynard moved her family from California to Oregon to die on her own terms. Oregon law allows Maynard to take lethal prescription medication to end her life. Jeffrey Brown gets debate… Continue watching
Sep 19 When will your prescriptions be cheaper? By Making Sen$e Editor We all know generics are cheaper. But how much cheaper? Economists find a 38 to 48 percent decline in the prices of physician-administered drugs after the drugs' patents have expired. The decline is slightly lower for oral drugs. Continue reading
Sep 05 Watch Can dogs be trained to detect the smell of cancer? By PBS News Hour For the past few decades, researchers have been exploring the possibility that cancer, possibly created by the growth of tumors, actually has a particular odor -- and dogs can pick up on that smell. Some doctors believe this area of… Continue watching
Aug 18 Stinging tumors with scorpion and honeybee venom By Justin Scuiletti When honeybees and scorpions sting, it is usually an act of defense -- a painful one at that, thanks to the venom injected through the stingers. Scientists, however, may have found a way to co-opt those venoms as a means… Continue reading