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A low-fat diet may help reduce women's risk of a breast cancer recurrence.
By Page Rockwell
December 18, 2006
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Research suggests a connection between breast cancer and hormone-replacement therapy. Time to blame the estrogen?
By Page Rockwell
December 15, 2006
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U.S. soldiers charged with rape, progress for pregnant women with malaria, Mike Tyson on fighting women and more!
By Pamela Merritt
October 18, 2006
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Breast cancer gene mutations, cola and osteoporosis, male birth control options and more!
By Page Rockwell
October 9, 2006
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Battling breast cancer in the Middle East, dangerous diet cocktails, the National At-Home Dads Convention and more!
By Page Rockwell
October 6, 2006
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October brings Barbie and breast cancer awareness.
By Rebecca Traister
October 3, 2006
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The annual Blogger Boobie-thon raises eyebrows ... and money for the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.
By Carol Lloyd
September 28, 2006
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At least among overweight and obese women, being active in the year before diagnosis was found to reduce patients' risk of death.
By Page Rockwell
September 11, 2006
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How much should we worry about yet another "silent killer"?
By Lynn Harris
August 16, 2006
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New research sheds light on why the disease kills more African-Americans than Caucasians.
By Lynn Harris
June 7, 2006
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A new proposal in Britain could allow women with a family history of the disease to screen embryos for susceptibility.
By Rebecca Traister
May 9, 2006
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I've uprooted myself over and over again in a short time. Now I don't know where I belong.
By Cary Tennis
April 19, 2006
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New study reveals that a genetic test misses certain mutations.
By Sarah Goldstein
March 22, 2006
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A small, survey-based study finds an encouraging link between coffee consumption and reduced risk for the disease.
By Page Rockwell
January 10, 2006
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A new study says mammograms are still essential to fighting cancer.
By Sarah Karnasiewicz
October 27, 2005
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Does "shopping for the cure" cheapen the reality of breast cancer?
By Ayelet Waldman
October 10, 2005
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It's been more than 50 years since studies first sounded the alarm about hormone replacement therapy. Women, silenced by shame, have been guinea pigs of the pharmaceutical industry for too long.
By Trisha Posner
July 10, 2002
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Big medicine is making big bucks on the disease, but we're still far from a cure.
By Laurie Tarkan
November 10, 2000
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The National Cancer Institute decides not to publicize the results of a publicly funded implant study. What's the deal?
By Denise Dowling
October 9, 2000
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First came the whining feminists. Next, the inevitable male backlash. Health research has become a casualty of the battle between the sexes.
By Cathy Young
September 20, 2000
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Women.com's new cartoon superheroine, Lacey Brazeer, is an insult to feminists of any gender.
By Andrew Leonard
September 19, 2000
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Writing a soap opera and waiting for my grandmother to die, I didn't know who would finish first -- she or I.
By Kerry Madden
August 21, 2000
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Gene studies are sexy and well funded, but they can buttress racial thinking and distract the public from the socioeconomic roots of disease.
By Jacqueline Stevens
August 11, 2000
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Healthy women at high risk for breast cancer are choosing to have both breasts removed, even while doctors are advocating less invasive treatments for those who are already sick
By Naomi Mendelsohn
June 20, 2000
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How the Texas brothers who secretly funded attack ads against McCain have made millions managing state money under the Bush administration in Austin.
By Joe Conason
March 6, 2000
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