Amanda Marcotte, Pandagon AlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. May 13, 2008. A study linking HPV to oral cancer in men puts anti-choice advocates between a rock and a hard place.
Geoffrey Lean, Independent UK. March 30, 2008. Brain expert warns of huge rise in tumors and calls on industry to take immediate steps to reduce radiation.
Simon Usborne, The Independent UK. March 19, 2008. Artist John D Edwards's latest paintings tell a harrowing story: how he fought his way back from penis cancer.
Kim Ridley, Ode. March 14, 2008. Scientists are finding that spices can ease inflammation, kill bacteria and viruses, and even cause cancer cells to self-destruct.
Paul Armentano, AlterNet. March 10, 2008. Headlines suggested a study proved pot is a greater cancer risk than tobacco -- but the media didn't even wait for the report to be released.
Paul Armentano, NORML AlterNet: Health and Wellness. March 6, 2008. So for the second month in a row we have researchers from New Zealand telling us that pot smoking has little-to-no association with cancer.
Maggie Mahar, AlterNet. February 12, 2008. The public has been denied important information on the link between pollution and health problems including lung, colon and breast cancer.
Christine Wenc, AlterNet. December 6, 2007. In her new book, Devra Davis exposes scientists and government officials who have worked to downplay or dismiss preventable causes of cancer.
Matt Corley, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. November 20, 2007. Matt Corley: The health plans of Giuliani, McCain and Thompson would likely exclude cancer survivors such as themselves.
Michelle Chen, In These Times. November 19, 2007. Industry special interests are burying information on cancer-causing chemicals and, according to watchdog groups, the government is helping them do it.
David Usborne, The Independent UK. November 13, 2007. After years of anti-obesity public health advice, a major new study causes an outcry by concluding that the moderately overweight live longer.
Heather Gehlert, AlterNet. October 25, 2007. Author Stacy Malkan reveals the dangerous truth about everyday products we put in our hair and on our skin.
Barbara Ehrenreich, Barbaraehrenreich.com. August 7, 2007. The perennial temptation to blame disease on sin or at least some grave moral failing just took another hit.
E MagazineJune 18, 2007. Groundbreaking research found that synthetic chemicals have likely played a large role in the rising incidence of breast cancer throughout the world over the last half-century.
Guest Blogger, AlterNet: PEEK. April 20, 2007. Lucinda Marshall: Exploring the links between hormone replacement therapy and breast, endometrial and ovarian cancer deaths.
Barbara Ehrenreich, AlterNet. March 30, 2007. It's bad enough to learn that Elizabeth Edwards' cancer has returned -- now we have to worry about what ugly things the right-wing and mainstream media are saying.
Terry J. Allen, In These Times. December 13, 2006. How computed tomography (CT) scans are exposing you to 500 times more radiation than a conventional chest x-ray.
Francesca Lyman, Ms. Magazine. October 19, 2006. Certain parts of the country have significantly higher rates of breast cancer -- but major organizations won't invest in research to find out why.
