Closing the Gap: Why Are More Black Women Dying of Breast Cancer?

Closing the gap: Why are more black women dying of breast cancer?
In Houston, a black woman is twice as likely to die from the disease, according to the research published in Cancer Epidemiology that ranked major metro areas. In Los Angeles, the risk goes up to 70 percent. Since the 1990s, survival rates for white …
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McNeely: Taxpayers are real losers in drug war
Rick Perry, at a March 7 panel discussion on criminal justice at the Conservative Political Action Conference, said Texas has shifted to a “smart-on-crime” corrections system, saving money and human potential by moving drug addicts toward treatment …
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Authors' advice: from brain power to mental health
Hamdy, medical director at Harvard's Joslin Diabetes Center, worked with exercise physiologist Sheri R. Colberg on what became a 12-week plan modeled on Joslin's own treatment program. Ultimately, their goal is to help patients take less medicine and …
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