What a Cruise Ship Outbreak Reveals About Your Lifespan
A cruise ship drifting off Cape Verde with 146 people aboard, three deaths, and a virus most Americans had barely heard of a week earlier sounds like the setup for a distant news story. It is easy to file it away as someone else’s problem. A CDC issue. A White House issue. A travel issue. […]
The Headline Said Fruit Causes Lung Cancer. The Study Said Something Else.
A conference talk in San Diego made the rounds last month. The claim got compressed into a single alarming line: healthy eating may cause lung cancer in young non-smokers. That isn’t what the study said. But it’s what the headlines said. The research came from the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center and was presented at […]
What Nobody Tells Cancer Patients About Staying Positive
The pressure to stay upbeat during cancer can feel almost as heavy as the illness itself. Patients are often told to be strong, think positive, and keep fighting. Most people mean well. Still, those words can land like another burden at the worst possible time. This is the part many people miss: not every cancer […]