On Thursday morning, former President Jimmy Carter held a press conference in which he calmly announced that he was beginning treatment for metastatic melanoma. A small tumor had been removed from his liver during an operation on August 3, but … Read More »
Light to moderate drinking — or about one drink per day — was associated with a 13 percent increase in alcohol-related cancers in women, according to a study published in the British Medical Journal in August. The elevated risk for cancer … Read More »
JUNE Worried about getting a sunburn? Swap your Fitbit for June. June is a wearable device that looks like a jeweled bracelet and bills itself as a “beauty coach that will help you fight a major source of skin-aging: UV.” … Read More »
Laura Post In 2005, Laura and her husband Tim opened a bakery in Ypsilanti, Michigan, fulfilling a lifelong goal of Tim’s. In July 2012, Tim was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. He died in October 2013 at age 53. … Read More »
ICYMI Health features what we’re reading this week. This week, we were drawn to a Q&A with the journalist correspondent in a new film on the dark realities of India’s surrogacy industry, as well the news that Australia’s poster girl … Read More »
In 2013, Jennifer Glass was diagnosed with stage IIIB lung cancer. To help document her life, she took a photo every day and then, in March 2014, she set it to music and uploaded it to YouTube. Since then, the … Read More »