“It’s the combined taxidermist and veterinarian approach: either way you get your dog back,” says David Himmelstein, an internist at the Harvard Medical School and co-author of a letter published in this week’s issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. The largest tobacco investor on the list, the 160-year old Prudential company with [...]

Bottles with bisphenol A, a chemical that’s linked to health problems including diabetes and heart disease, are leaching it into our bodies. Harvard University researchers reported the first-ever finding yesterday, which showed that when people drank from BPA bottles, the chemical ended up in their urine at a concentration more than two thirds higher [...]

The health risks attributed to smoking cigarettes appear to have actually worsened over time, according to a new study. Dr. David Burns of the University of California, San Diego, presented his findings during a meeting of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco. He noted that although the nation’s rate of lung cancer has [...]

Cancer is a class of diseases in which a group of cells display uncontrolled growth (division beyond the normal limits), invasion (intrusion on and destruction of adjacent tissues), and sometimes metastasis (spread to other locations in the body via lymph or blood). These three malignant properties of cancers differentiate them from benign tumors, which are [...]