A new article published in the Archives of Internal Medicine asks a very controversial question. Do breast cancer tumors go away on their own? In order to try to prove or disprove this theory researchers performed a study. The article shows that at least one type of cancer that was discovered through screening sometimes will disappear. Neoroblastoma is a very rare childhood tumor.  Read more... (304 words, estimated 1:13 mins reading time)

14 year old D’Zhana Simmons is not your ordinary teenager. Last Spring she and her parents discovered that she had an enlarged heart that was not strong enough to pump blood. The only way that she would be able to survive is with a heart transplant. So she and her family traveled from their home in Clinton, South Carolina to Holtz Children’s Hospital in Miami, Florida.  Read more... (165 words, estimated 40 secs reading time)

Anorexia is an eating disorder. People who suffer from anorexia will starve themselves because they feel they are too fat when compared with today’s society. Anorexia can affect anyone of any age – but it usually starts around the age puberty.  Read more... (191 words, estimated 46 secs reading time)

Health experts have are putting together a campaign against the tanning industry. According to the campaign the tanning industry portrays indoor tanning beds and sunbathing a safe practice and even goes so far as to say that it is good for the health of consumers.  Read more... (331 words, estimated 1:19 mins reading time)

Researchers have been working on an experimental breast cancer vaccine and in the process have been able to create one that is more effective. They have hope that this new vaccine will give the patient a cancer fighting gene that will place itself into the infected cells. This will then create immune system proteins that will destroy the tumor.  Read more... (368 words, estimated 1:28 mins reading time)