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Shoe-Stealing Cat Burglar Actually Dresses Like a Cat

(June 29) -- There's a cat burglar preying on New York City shoe stores. She's not a cat burglar so much for the style and grace with which she pulls off her heists. It's more because of the dinky Halloween-style cat mask she wears while stealing her ill-gotten wares. And that story isn't weird enough to lead my column...

Diet, Exercise Touted in Fight Against Breast Cancer

(March 25) -- Lifestyle changes, rather than better screening, are going to be the key to curbing breast cancer rates, a panel of experts told a conference in Barcelona, Spain, today. "What can be achieved with screening has been achieved. We can't do much more," Carlo La Vecchia, head of epidemiology at the University of...

Great Facebook Bra Debate: Success or 'Slacktivism'?

(Jan. 8) – Broadcasting the color of your bra to your friends and colleagues is not typical or even acceptable behavior for most women, yet that's precisely what thousands of female Facebook users were doing this week, ostensibly to raise awareness of breast cancer. Logging on to the world's most popular social...

Study: Pomegranates May Help Fight Breast Cancer

(Jan. 6) -- The antioxidant-boosting pomegranate just got a boost of its own: U.S. researchers say that on top of all its other health benefits, the ancient fruit fights breast cancer as well. A rare compound found in pomegranates, ellagic acid, helps stop the growth of hormone-fed cancer cells, according to a study...

Teresa Heinz Says She's Fighting Breast Cancer

BOSTON (Dec. 23) -- Teresa Heinz says she is being treated for breast cancer discovered through mammography and argues that younger women should continue undergoing the tests despite a federal panel's recent recommendation to reduce their frequency. The 71-year-old wife of the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee, Sen....

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05/27/12 Why this image of a model who isn't ill is a slap in... Source: Daily Mail - London - UK It is a photograph of a woman naked from the waist up, completely bald.
05/26/12 Skp2 activates cancer-promoting, glucose-processing Akt Source: ScienceDaily ScienceDaily (May 26, 2012) HER2 and its epidermal growth factor receptor cousins mobilize a specialized protein to activate a major player in cancer development and sugar metabolism, scientists report in the May 25 issue of Cell.
05/25/12 Hooter's Girls to play softball to raise funds for... Source: The St. Augustine Record - St. Augustine FL Hooter's restaurants in San Jose, Southside, Orange Park and at the Jacksonville Landing will hold a joint benefit softball game Sunday to support breast cancer research.
05/25/12 HER2-Positive Breast Cancer Source: The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) In the latest Case Record of the Massachusetts General Hospital , a 32-year-old woman noted a crease in her right breast.
05/25/12 Why People Stick with Cancer Screening, Even When It... Source: Time The data on PSA testing to detect prostate cancer has long been shaky â so much so that the discoverer of PSA (or prostate-specific antigen, an enzyme made by the prostate) himself decried the test two years ago as "hardly more effective than a coin toss."