Experts face the grim task of deciding who will get treatment during a pandemic or other health disaster — many with chronic illnesses will be left out.

One of the top cancer treatment facilities in the world is offering you the opportunity to e-mail your questions about cancer to their oncology experts. The Mayo Clinic web site has a feature called Ask a Cancer Specialist which allows anybody with internet access the chance to ask Mayo’s experienced specialists their tough cancer questions [...]

South African health officials are hoping the installation a new Positron Emission Tomography – Computed Tomography (PET-CT) scanner will help them reduce cancer deaths in their country. While PET-CT imaging devices are commonly used to diagnose cancer in US hospitals, this is only the second one available to patients in South Africa’s public hospitals. Mr [...]

Hey I love the book store but, let’s face it, buying a bunch of cancer books can get expensive – especially when you’re a patient with medical expenses to consider. And with chemotherapy, radiation, surgery or lab tests on the schedule, it can be hard to find the time to drive from library to library [...]

The US Department of Health and Human Services’ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and the Ad Council have launched a national ad campaign encouraging men over 40 to take an active role in their own health care. The Real Men Wear Gowns campaign, which was created pro bono by McCann Erickson Detroit, includes [...]

Still wondering how you’ll spend your summer vacation? Consider a kid’s cancer camp. Oncology camps offer pediatric cancer patients and their families a great opportunity to have some fun away from the dreary routine of hospital visits. Plus, kids and their parents get to spend some recreational time with others who truly understand what it’s [...]

An article published in the April 2008 edition of the American Medical Association News shows 3,170 pairs of prescription drugs have names that look or sound so much alike they can easily lead to serious medication errors. The report stems from a January 2008 drug review compiled by US Pharmacopeia (USP), a nonprofit organization based [...]

Cancer survivors know treatment side effects have a way popping up at inconvenient times and places — sometimes even at the airport. So what do you do if you’re stuck at the airline terminal and you suddenly start to feel ill? These days you might not need to leave the airport to get medical assistance. [...]

An alternative health company is asking citizens of the United Kingdom to support legislation which would include herbal supplements and other natural treatments in clinical trials comparing the effectiveness of investigational drugs against a placebo. Sweet Cures of York, a marketer of herbal products and natural remedies, has launched a campaign to gain public support [...]

The Advanced Photon Source (APS) at the US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory is helping researchers gain a better understanding of enzymes that help regulate growth or, when not working properly, contribute to cancer development. A team of scientists led by Illinois Institute of Technology biologist Joseph Orgel used high energy x-rays from the [...]