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Four-country study finds no cancer link to cellphone usage

A large new study is the latest to find no link between rising cellphone use and rates of brain cancer. Researchers in four Scandinavian...
USA TODAY, 12/01/09 by Liz Szabo · More from publication
New cancer cases, death rates decline

The rates of new cancer cases and deaths continue to fall modestly each year, evidence that the nation has made progress in reducing tobacco use,...
USA TODAY, 12/01/09 by Liz Szabo · More from publication
Soy foods could help breast cancer survivors

Soy foods may be safe, and possibly even beneficial, for breast cancer survivors, a new study says. Many breast cancer doctors have been...
USA TODAY, 12/01/09 by Liz Szabo · More from publication
Limited study says turf fields no threat

Although the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday released a limited study of artificial turf fields that found no concerns with the...
USA TODAY, 12/01/09 by Steve Berkowitz and Liz Szabo · More from publication
CT scan radiation linked to cancers, deaths

CT scans deliver far more radiation than has been believed and may contribute to 29,000 new cancers each year, along with 14,500 deaths, suggest...
USA TODAY, 12/01/09 by Liz Szabo · More from publication
You shouldn't believe that medical advice when...

Consumers are inundated with health advice from a host of sources: movie stars, TV docs and even the Internet. Thanks to the Internet, doctors...
USA TODAY, 12/01/09 by Liz Szabo · More from publication

Are celebrities crossing the line on medical advice?

When first lady Betty Ford announced that she had had a mastectomy in 1974, patient advocates say, it was groundbreaking. Breast-cancer survivors...
USA TODAY, 12/01/09 by Liz Szabo m USA TODAY · More from publication
2009 in Review

The emergence of H1N1, the first pandemic flu strain in about 40 years, was the top health story of 2009. A look back at H1N1 and some of the other...
USA TODAY, 12/01/09 by Steve Sternberg; Nanci Hellmich: Liz Szabo; Rita Rubin · More from publication
With cancer screenings, 'more is not always better'

Women across the USA have been shocked and angered by new advice to get fewer mammograms. Yet experts have been debating the risks of mammograms...
USA TODAY, 11/30/09 by Liz Szabo · More from publication
Women insistent on cancer screening

A vast majority of American women plan to ignore controversial new recommendations about mammograms, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll shows. The poll also...
USA TODAY, 11/24/09 by Liz Szabo · More from publication