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Editors at the venerable New England Journal of Medicine must be a bit embarrassed this week, having had to issue a correction admitting that it should have disclosed that a lung-cancer detection... Read more...
As if quitting smoking wasn't difficult enough, now comes word that there's a genetic link that makes people more likely to be hooked on tobacco. TheĀ AP reports that three separate teams of... Read more...
> Prior to Britney Spears's hospital files being illegally viewed by some members of UCLA's medical staff, Farrah Fawcett suffered the same fate. Records of her cancer treatments at the same... Read more...
It's discomforting--the more you look, the more you find tobacco companies funding medical research. Last week, we learn that a 2006 study concluding that 80 percent of lung cancer deaths could be... Read more...
According to an article in the New York Times, a 2006 study that concluded that 80 percent of lung cancer deaths could be prevented by the use of CT scans was backed by grants from a cigarette... Read more...