Jade Goody has given her final interview with the British OK magazine. Jade Goody is a British celebrity who is dying of cancer. She is also the mother of two children. In the OK interview, Jade says she wants to be remembered as the "girl who put up a fight and would never let herself get beaten do...

Last Thursday I went for a run. I had to. It was such a beautiful day here - 80 degrees and sunny with a breeze. I mean, that's great weather at ANY time but right smack at the end of winter and just a mere 4 days after a big SNOWSTORM and man, that made for a good day. There is a trail near our...

Ovarian cancer, which is known as the silent killer because it's so hard to detect in early stages, killed 15,000-plus women in the US last year. But now, doctors are a step closer to developing a way to screen for it. [Us News & World Report] Mandy Moore and Ryan Adams, who just got engaged...

Yesterday, I had an update from Megan--she's still fighting, but the news is not good. Her radiation oncologist, the doctor who had recommended stereotactic radiation to treat her brain mets, has what is called a "peer-to-peer" review with the local California Blue Shield m...

My recent post on moderate drinking and breast cancer risk spurred a lot of comments.  So I thought you might also be interested in a new initiative from the National Institutes of Health called Rethinking Drinking. The goal is to help people assess the risks and/or benefits of their drinking h...

Biotech, cancer, Inflammation Luke Timmerman wrote: Some members of the band that pumped out a one-hit wonder at Icos are getting back together to see if they can produce at least one more hit at Seattle-based Calistoga Pharmaceuticals. Calistoga has been building up its management team over the pas...

One of the things that cancer has done for me so far is give me a new understanding of weakness.  Over the last few years there has been a "grace revival" in the church through influences such as Tim Keller, Sonship, Scotty Smith, Jerry Bridges, Steve Brown and others. And one of the things that al...

Most adults would rather keep talk about colons behind the bathroom door. It’s time to talk, says Kim Turgeon, MD, FACP, gastroenterologist in Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan Health System. Regular wear and tear on the colon can cause little out-pockets called diverticula in one in...

Somewhere, someone who never cared for her in better days is masturbating right now over a recent picture of Jade Goody, the woman as glowing mannequin-saint; willowy and graceful, not emaciated; luminous and iridescent, not papery. Somewhere else, a young woman is dying. Hollowed out, eternally tir...

Once cancer has invaded and set the new pace for your life, you’d be hard pressed to try and change it....