Jan 13 Watch Cancer Treatment: Are Personalized Molecular Profiles in Our Future? In the 40 years since the federal government promised to find a cure for cancer, hundreds of billions of dollars have been spent and much has been learned. Still, the diseases continue to claim more lives each year. Health correspondent… Continue watching
Jan 13 Watch Health Reform: Changing the Game for Pediatric Cancer Patients? This is the story of Cooper Trout, a pediatric cancer patient. Continue watching
Jan 09 Watch In Their 90s, D.C. Brothers Still Going for Olympic Gold The Tatum brothers have long dominated their peers at the annual National Senior Games. Continue watching
Dec 22 If It’s Not a War on Cancer, What Is It? By Jason Kane It was President Nixon's "Christmas gift to the nation." On Dec. 23, 1971, he faced the television cameras in the East Room of the White House and declared "total national commitment" to finding a cure for cancer and the funds… Continue reading
Oct 31 Watch For Some Patients, Drug Shortage Creates Life-and-Death Situation Concerns Rise Over Shortages of Prescription Drugs… Continue watching
Oct 25 Watch Boys, Young Men Should Get HPV Vaccine, CDC Panel Says A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention panel has recommended for the first time that boys and young men get vaccinated against the human papillomavirus, known as HPV, to protect them from cancers resulting from sexual activity. Jeffrey Brown discusses… Continue watching
Oct 20 Watch Patients, Doctors Face Tough Questions Amid Changes in Prostate Cancer Screening There have been plenty of questions and reactions in the medical community since a government panel recommended changing the way men are screened for prostate cancer. Health correspondent Betty Ann Bowser reports on some of the responses among patients and… Continue watching
Aug 08 Watch Telling the Story Behind Cancer In New Book, Doctor Explores History of Cancer… Continue watching
Jul 29 Watch ‘The President Is a Sick Man’ Details Secret Surgery of President Cleveland When President Grover Cleveland underwent secret cancer surgery in 1893 the public was kept in the dark for weeks while he recuperated and for decades to follow. Ray Suarez discusses the history with author, Matthew Algeo, who details the happenings… Continue watching
Jul 05 Watch Chavez’s Health Fuels Political Power Struggle in Venezuela Celebrations erupted Monday in Caracas as news spread that President Hugo Chavez had returned to Venezuela after receiving cancer treatment in Cuba. Ray Suarez discusses the nation's recent political struggles with Moises Naim of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace… Continue watching