Cancer a Metabolic Disease – Not Just a Genetic One
My brother-in-law asked me a question I have not been able to forget: would you pay $100,000 for another 10 minutes of life?
The question came from his neighbor, who has stage 4 pancreatic cancer. My brother-in-law is also a cancer patient. So far, the disease has cost him a kidney and possibly part of his liver, but he is still alive. Several people in my circle are living with cancer.
Their experiences point to a question medicine alone cannot answer: “When survival depends on treatment, when does care become business?“ Continue reading
Bryce Ramsey was 33, a nurse who spent her shifts watching for symptoms in other people. When she noticed blood in her stool, she told herself it was hemorrhoids. She’d just had a baby, and she was exhausted. She had a reason for everything—right up until the day she didn’t.
Last winter, a man named David sat down in my office and told me, in a careful, measured way of someone who has rehearsed a sentence during the drive over, that he believed he was developing dementia. He was 61 and a retired civil engineer.
Mark Cuban thinks America’s health care system can somehow turn the exact same MRI machine into a luxury item depending on which building a patient walks into.
The Moringa oleifera tree grows 15 feet in one year and produces fuel, food, and medicine simultaneously. For 4,000 years, it sustained civilizations across Asia and Africa. Its seeds yield 38-40% oil that runs diesel engines without modification. Those same seeds purify contaminated water, killing 99% of bacteria. The leaves contain 7x more vitamin C than oranges, 4x more calcium than milk, and 2x more protein than yogurt.
Cancer treatment is entering a new phase. The most hopeful breakthroughs are not only helping some patients live longer, but also allowing doctors to ask a question that once seemed out of reach: who can safely avoid chemotherapy?
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This is a reckless, large-scale open-air biological experiment conducted on the American public without meaningful consent. Local communities get no real vote. Once released, these engineered insects cannot be recalled if unintended consequences emerge, including ecological disruption, impacts on other species, or unknown effects on human health. 
Vegetables are a cornerstone of a healthy diet, but with endless options at the market and seasons that never stop shifting, knowing which ones to always keep on hand isn’t always obvious. We asked two registered dietitians to name their standout pick (and share a few honorable mentions) to settle the debate once and for all. Spoiler: Eat your greens. 
The American Cancer Society (ACS) has updated its guidelines for colorectal cancer screening to include new blood-based and at-home stool tests.