Cancer

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Are we asking the right questions about hormones?
Medical research depends on knowing what you're looking for.
Brother knows best
Dave Eggers talks, with some reluctance, about the staggering work of being a genius parent.
Marlboro Man lives
Big Tobacco money is being spent differently than before, but it's still targeting our youth.
A Christmas story starring Jane Russell
Her time with us was short, but we will never forget the comely tan-and-white terrier.
Word doctor
A Harvard physician believes poetry can soothe and even heal his patients.
Sharps & Flats
To deny Celine Dion is to deny the culture that made her a star.
Letters to the Editor
The "other woman" should dump that loser! Plus: Brill's Content editor questions Salon angle; e-commerce today, gone tomorrow?
"The Red Devil"
A woman with cancer rediscovers her body through a passionate love affair.
Eating Satan's footprints
What can the onion and garlic diet do for you? Ask, rather, what you can do for Macedonia.
Cry for me, Puerto Rico
The next big issue after the clemency controversy is the growing pressure to throw the U.S. Navy off its test bombing range.
Thicker than blood
Why does college life teach students to lose the family to find the self?
My Mother, the disaster
When my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer, of course I came out to help. But I didn't expect her to seduce the doctor.
My first biopsy
Medical tests revealed a most insidious disease: Fear.
Triumph of the cure
Lance Armstrong beat testicular cancer and then won the Tour de France. Was it a miracle or is he a poster boy for the power of modern medicine?
"Living in the Lightning: A Cancer Journal"
One woman learns how to manage her fear.
Saving our skins
The FDA and dermatologists are arguing over sunscreen labels.
The third breast
A couple examines its breast together.
No sweat
A recent e-mail is scaring women away from antiperspirants.
Ted Hughes, R.I.P.
A brief obituary of the British poet Ted Hughes, who died Wednesday Oct. 28, and links to Salon's glowing review of his last book of poems, 'Birthday Letters.'
Fighting the wrong war
The government could cut cancer deaths by a third by educating Americans to eat right. But dollars for diet education are scarce, while the cancer research budget fattens up.
One Blue Thing
Renée Zellweger buckles under the emotional weight of the brutally melodramatic 'One True Thing.'
The Salon Interview - Richard Powers
The author of "Gain" on cancer, corporations, the blankness of the Midwest and the elusive art of seducing readers.
Wake up and smell the flug
In the Mouth of the Cave
Casualties of the Marijuana War
It isn't just cancer and AIDS patients who are suffering because of America's anti-pot hysteria. Hundreds of small-time users are in jail -- for life.
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