Patrick Swayze: "I'm Going Through Hell"
Patrick Swayze, who has been battling pancreatic cancer for a year, sat down with Barbara Walters for an exclusive interview that airs Wednesday night...
Patrick Swayze, who has been battling pancreatic cancer for a year, sat down with Barbara Walters for an exclusive interview that airs Wednesday night...
AP | Posted 01.05.2009 | Living
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Scientists at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences hope to begin clinical trials this spring on a vaccine to preven...
Deepak Chopra | Posted 12.29.2008 | Politics
In the spirit of President-elect Obama's call for unity, the present divide between opponents and supporters of the war in Iraq needs to be healed. O...
R. B. Stuart | Posted 12.28.2008 | Politics
My sister Fran's cancer appeared at the beginning of January. She felt tired, bloated, and had an unusual feeling of fullness, and immediately thought her term in Iraq was the culprit.
Jeff Biggers | Posted 12.23.2008 | Green
Coal ash contains mercury, lead, and arsenic. Nearly 800 Olympic-size swimming pools of that toxic mix are flowing into the waterways of Tennessee right now.
Nancy Chuda | Posted 12.23.2008 | Green
In the eighties, we knew very little about the dangers of living with and around chemicals, and even less about the compounded exposures due to their cumulative effects.
AP | Posted 12.18.2008 | Entertainment
LOS ANGELES — Sam Bottoms, who had small but memorable roles in the 1970s classics "Apocalypse Now" and "The Last Picture Show," has died. He wa...
Don McNay | Posted 12.13.2008 | Business
I'm not the only person thinking twice about giving money to charity. Or about spending money. Most people have the same kind of hesitation that I have. And this compounds the financial crisis problem.
Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 12.11.2008 | Living
In the short time I knew James O'Keefe, he wouldn't mind if I called him friend. He touched my life in ways that few ever have or ever will.
Howie Greene | Posted 12.11.2008 | Politics
She's a cancer survivor. She's a great fundraiser. She speaks Spanish, Yiddish and some form of English. Fran Drescher is a lot of things -- but the next Senator from New York?
AP | MIKE STOBBE | Posted 12.09.2008 | Living
ATLANTA — Cancer will overtake heart disease as the world's top killer by 2010, part of a trend that should more than double global cancer cases...
Dr. Michael J. Breus | Posted 12.09.2008 | Living
The food comas that will descend on many of us over the holidays may not actually come from the turkey, ham or other holiday meal. You'd have to eat a...
Eric Broder | Posted 12.04.2008 | Living
Aquarius: The upper peninsula of Michigan asks you to lead its secessionist movement. Your grown grandchildren find your assertion that you were once a member of the Cure difficult to accept.
AP | Posted 12.02.2008 | Entertainment
NEW YORK — Patrick Swayze is angry about tabloid reports that say he doesn't have long to live. The actor, who was diagnosed with pancreatic can...
Phyllis F. Mitz | Posted 11.26.2008 | Living
Scorpios typically ignite their controlling behaviors out of a need to keep themselves safe -- emotionally and otherwise -- rather than out of deliberate meanness or cruelty.
Laura Ziskin | Posted 11.17.2008 | Entertainment
This past September 5th, Stand Up to Cancer launched in a powerful way... we raised more than $100 million for innovative cancer research projects.
Dr. Jeffrey McCombs | Posted 11.17.2008 | Living
Obama keeps reminding us that we need to prepare ourselves for making sacrifices in order to correct the excesses of the past. This applies as much to our diet as much as it does to the economy.
Michelle Cote | Posted 11.11.2008 | Living
The Pan-Massachusetts Challenge was born 29 years ago when a young adventure athlete named Billy Starr decided to bring together a group of his friends to raise money to fight cancer.
Reuters | Posted 11.10.2008 | Entertainment
Country singer Merle Haggard, recently diagnosed with lung cancer, had part of a lung removed and is recovering at home, his spokeswoman said on Sunda...
Reuters | Julia Steenhuysen | Posted 11.06.2008 | Living
In a puzzling twist, women who have a history of migraine headaches are far less likely to develop breast cancer than other women, U.S. researchers sa...
Simran Sethi | Posted 11.06.2008 | Green
From Seventh Generation's discussion on "Children and Chemicals," featuring Jane Houlihan of the Environmental Working Group, pediatrician Dr. Alan ...
Dante Zappala | Posted 11.06.2008 | Politics
Don't think of an elephant and what's the first thing that comes to mind? And so it goes that I try not to think, 'Dad should be here.' Phillies win...
AP | HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 11.05.2008 | Entertainment
Michael Crichton, the million-selling author who made scientific research terrifying and irresistible in such thrillers as "Jurassic Park," "Timeline"...
Betty Brink | Posted 10.29.2008 | Living
The medical neglect in our prisons is too-often accepted by the public as just another price paid by those who commit crimes.
New York Times | Posted 10.29.2008 | Entertainment
On a film soundstage here, a tense scene was unfolding, with the actor Lou Diamond Phillips, playing a rogue cop, holding a gun aimed at the head of a...
If you think people laugh at your skiing skills then think again. A man was a...
The Anchorage Daily News reports that Levi Johnston, the father of Bristol Palin's...
Rep. John Conyers has written a letter to Democratic colleagues urging them to join...
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I want to play poker with Harry Reid. Really I do. Rather than call for a...
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Rachel Maddow appeared on "The Daily...
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Patrick Swayze, who has been battling pancreatic cancer for a year, sat down with Barbara Walters for...
An article in next month's Atlantic asks, "Is porn...
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The Internet is awash with rumors over the cause of the tragic death of actor John Travolta's...
ABC | Posted 01.06.2009 | Entertainment