Cancer
Mobile phones and health: The Difference Engine: Voices in the head
What is it about radio waves that frightens so many?(26)
Diagnosing cancer: To screen or not to screen
Controversies over whether or not screening for cancer is a good idea(5)
Cancer therapy: Taking aim sooner
If personalised medicine is to achieve its full potential, it should be used earlier on in clinical trials(9)
Where pharmacuetical firms are concentrating their efforts(12)
Drug companies in America: The costly war on cancer
New cancer drugs are technically impressive. But must they cost so much?(37)
Medical statistics and the NHS: Cancer and the NHS
Suddenly the soundbite changes from “Britain worse than Europe for cancer survival” to “Britain worse than small proportion of Europe that bothers to submit data for cancer survival”(13)
Oncology: Making cancer glow away
How to track down tiny tumours(13)
Prevention of cancer: Wonder drug
Aspirin continues to amaze(16)
Charity: 450,000 guys named Mo
Changing the face of men’s health(8)
Cancer and obesity: Malignant flab
At last, an understanding of how overeating causes cancer(6)
Cancer: With hope, farewell fear
The long struggle to understand cancer(3)
Drugs in Africa: A lot of pain
Africans need more morphine(15)
Diagnosing bladder cancer: A yellow submarine
A way of making bladder examinations slightly less ghastly(7)
Genomics has not yet delivered the drugs, but it will(4)
Cancer therapy: Three steps forward…
After decades of trying, researchers have made progress against melanoma, lung cancer and leukaemia(6)
Consumer genomics: The part where I find coffee won't kill me...
Some of these tests, I would be willing to bet, are just as useful, and accurate, as over-the-counter pregnancy tests, and nobody complains that women risk not understanding the results.(2)
Genes and patents: More harm than good?
Patenting genes is bad for diagnosis(8)
Nutrition and health: Protection racket
Eating lots of fruit and vegetables may not help stave off cancer, after all(17)
Health reform non-scandal: A revealing anecdote
What a presidential story tells us about the health-care debate in America(36)
Cancer and stem cells: A strand apart
More evidence that tumours, like healthy organs, grow from stem cells(7)
Cancer research investments are bearing fruit(3)
A potential anti-cancer therapy: Identifying the enemy within
An implant that instructs the immune system to fight cancer(4)
Cancer, health insurance, bankruptcy
Better care versus universal insurance. Why is this even a choice?(51)
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