Dr Jacob “Jack” Kevorkian died on June 3, 2011 of complications arising out of chronic kidney disease, hepatitis C and a blood clot, at William Beaumont...
The lead article in the New York Times this Saturday revealed that each year 75,000 patients nationally have apparently unnecessary double chest CT scans. Whi...
Her father was perhaps the unluckiest patient ever. She told me that he had seven different cancers. He had lung cancer. Then he had lymph node cancer. He had...
Not seen what I have seen. Not been where I have been. Not stood where I have stood. Not felt what I have felt. For 35 years, watched the grim harvest reaped by...
In recent years there has been a drop in the rates of several cancers … lung cancer is slightly less, breast cancer has decreased because of less estrogen use...
This weekend it was exciting to see several local events raising money to fight cancer. The American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life was held over Saturday n...
In order to defeat the enemy, it is important to understand it. Cancer patients in this country this year will visit doctors, hospitals and emergency departme...
Shiloh, Vicksburg, Petersburg, Richmond were battles that forged a nation. When we remember President and General Ulysses S. Grant and his contribution to our h...
When you have a medical problem and are consulting a physician, is it more important to know the question or the answer? If you are having any kind of test, s...
Pancreatic Cancer continues to consume lives. This disease, which will affect 43,140 in this country in 2011, continues to be extraordinarily difficult to detec...