Telenovelas: Are Spanish-Language Soap Operas Good for Your Health?

Watch Video | Listen to the Audio JEFFREY BROWN: Next, romance, drama and some very direct messages about health care. It's all part of a Spanish-language soap opera that takes its viewers well beyond the usual storylines. NewsHour health correspondent Betty Ann Bowser explains. BETTY ANN BOWSER: It's a sad day for Alicia. She has just learned she is dying from colon cancer. Her boyfriend, Don ...

Eighth retraction marks slide of lung cancer work

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In a reminder of how much a once-heralded area of lung cancer research has crumbled, a former Duke oncologist and his colleagues issued their eighth study retraction late last week. On Friday, Dr. Anil Potti and his co-authors formally withdrew a 2008 study in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) that purported to offer a "genetic signature" that ...

Cancer Chief Varmus Seeks to Solve 24 Mysteries to Reduce Toll of Disease

Why do obese people get cancer more often? How can some turtles live more than a century without ever developing tumors while mice can develop them in a year? Could treatments that hold tumor cells in check without destroying them keep people alive longer?

Shortage Of Research On When There's Too Much Health Care

Published research on excess use of health care is in pretty short supply, so rooting out waste by looking at the existing studies can be a little like limiting your late-night search for lost car keys to the spots right under streetlights.

Damon Runyon grants Fellowship and Breakthrough Scientist awards to 21 top young scientists

( Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation ) The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation, a non-profit organization focused on supporting innovative early career researchers, named 18 new Damon Runyon Fellows at its fall Fellowship Award Committee review. The recipients of this prestigious, three-year award are outstanding postdoctoral scientists conducting basic and translational cancer research ...