Health Care

Author Credit: NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF The battle over health care focuses on access to insurance, or tempests like the one that erupted over new mammogram guidelines. But what about broader public health challenges? What if breast...

Broccoli is one of Nature’s great cancer fighting foods. All of the cruciferous vegetables, better known as the cabbage family, contain compounds that fight cancer and modulate hormones. Human studies have shown that cruciferous vegetables...

Let’s be honest we are getting a small amount of insurance reform and no health care reform. For the first time in decades, there may be some controls on the abuses of the insurance companies against patients...

I recently attended a private screening of Pink Skies: a film about women, breast cancer and courage. Explored are the challenges and the questions breast cancer patients and clinicians face everyday, including both conventional and...

Watch this video by Dr. Deborah Rhodes, M.D. from her December 2010 talk at TEDWomen on why mammograms are not enough for early detection of breast cancer in women with dense breasts.  Are you one...

Patients whose General Practitioner Knows Complementary Medicine tend to have lower costs and live longer. Start looking for doctors who know about health and are interested in wellness!! These doctors spend more time with patients, pay attention to lifestyle factors...

A Solution to the Cost of Integrative Cancer Care: Crowd Funding for Health and for Choice It seems the Road to Health is Paved with Gold. Integrative Cancer Care  is expensive. Conventional Modern Oncology care...

Coming Home to Ourselves| Finding Calm, Clarity and Compassion at the Center of the Storm of Cancer and Serious Illness  PART 1 Susan Bauer Wu Shows Us The Healing Power of Mindfulness and a Tender...

Vitamin D can reduce your risk of the flu and complications of flu. Vitamin D contributes to lowering the incidence of infections and inflammation during the fall-winter flu season. The Canadian government has recommended increased...

Over 30 years ago, cancer got really personal for me. Both of my parents were diagnosed. No one else in our family ever had cancer. This got my attention. I questioned whether we had all...

Improve just about every area of your health with wellness tips.  It’s absolutely free, no strings attached. My friends, Brad Costanzo and Bob Serling, at 10 Minute Wellness Tips, have just released a series of short,...

The Seven Traits of Leadership on the High Seas of Cancer By Craig R. Hildreth, MD To My New Oncologist, I am hoping that you can help me. I just found out that I have...