Consumer Health Digest is a free weekly e-mail newsletter edited by  William M. London, Ed.D., M.P.H. , with help from  Stephen Barrett, M.D...

Health is a general term with multiple definitions and causative factors. Exercise is mentioned in most conversations regarding health but t...

"Google ‘ cancer ’ and you’ll be faced with millions of web pages. And the number of YouTube videos you find if you look up ‘cancer cu...

“Segregation is a cancer in the body politic, which must be removed before our democratic health can be realized.”  NO community is immune t...

"A recent report  by the organization known as Cancer Research UK presents some worrisome data describing the population's lack o...

"Real science knows that the biggest risk for cancer, as it is with just about every disease, is age." Cancer As Modern Lifestyl...

The cells inside a tumour change and evolve just like animals in the wild. Understanding how this works could help us stop cancer in its tra...

Your one stop shop for real science and myth-debunking about Gardasil

"If you read some woo that cancer is more prevalent now than in the past. Well, that’s wrong . And if you read some other junk medicin...

Another study in support of the finding that there is no association between cell phones and brain cancer. " - - - avoiding cell phon...

"It’s doctors like Dr. Nikiforov who see a medical practice that is not adequately science-based and fix it, not quacks like Mr. Ji, w...

Harriet Hall , who has been one of my favorite skeptics for decades, highlights a new book delving into the mysteries of cancer. Sharks Ge...

" - - - we must reduce exposure to known carcinogens through aggressive environmental regulation at the city, state and federal level....

A dramatic cure for cancer would be like aliens landing on the White House lawn – everyone would know about it.

"Now Witkowski has written a new book, to be published later this year, Psychology Led Astray: Cargo Cult in Science and Therapy ,   t...

It's several years off, but "A new study shows that some cancers hold within them the seeds of their own destruction, which coul...

An active life protects against cancer. Researchers now understand why