On tour with Debbie Reynolds: the feisty and fit actress speaks out about an all-too-common problem--overactive bladder.
"I love the road, greasepaint, and roar of the crowd. I love perfoming live," Debbie Reynolds, as fit and feisty as ever, told the Post while on tour in Canada. "I am onstage two hours singing, dancing, and doing impressions in a variety show. It keeps you on your...

Fast facts about cancer.
The immune system and inflammation have been implicated in the pathogenesis of cancer. A research team led by Karen L. Margolis, M.D., of the HealthPartners Research Foundation in Minneapolis, wanted to know whether the white blood cell (WBC) count was associated with cancer in postmenopausal women. The...

Prognostic Factors in Breast Cancer.
College of American Pathologists Consensus Statement 1999 CATEGORY 1 Tumor Size Tumor size is one of the most powerful predictors of tumor behavior in breast cancer.[1-6] The frequency of nodal metastases in patients with tumors smaller than 1.0 cm is 10% to 20%,[1,7]...

Komen Tulsa Affiliate Awards $265,000 to Local Organizations to Aid Breast Cancer Fight.
TULSA, Okla., Jan. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- The Tulsa Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure has selected four Tulsa-based non-profit organizations to receive grant awards totaling $265,000, with an additional $92,707 earmarked for national breast cancer research. The announcement was made today by Affiliate President Chris Payne during...

Historic Hospital Begins Its New Life as MetroSouth Medical Center.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-3 August 2008-Historic Hospital Begins Its New Life as MetroSouth Medical Center(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com As hundreds of employees, community members and officials cheered and clapped, a giant blue ribbon parted and the hospital in Blue Island, Ill. began its new life as...

Promoting self-examination behaviors in men: a touchy subject?
In the United States a man is more likely to be diagnosed with cancer during his lifetime than the typical American woman. Over a lifetime an American man has a 50% chance of developing cancer while an American woman has a 33% chance (American Cancer Society [ACS], 2006). Once...

New study confirms link between breast cancer and hormone therapy.
A sharp drop in breast cancer rates from 2003 to 2004 is linked to an even larger drop in women's use of hormone therapy that began around 2000, according to a Kaiser Permanente study in the Aug. 1 issue of the "Journal of the National Cancer Institute" that confirms...

States Want Insurance Coverage for Cancer Screening.
Over 8 million people in the United States today have been diagnosed with cancer at some point in their lives. The disease chalks up a $107 billion bill every year, according to the National Institutes of Health. Treatment of breast, lung and prostate cancers account for over half of...

Breast cancer: the poor relation of cancers.
Breast cancer is one of the fastest growing killers in the United States; it is the leading cause of death for women aged 40 to 44. The statistics are staggering (see "The Numbers," p. 4). Incidences of breast cancer are up 53 percent since 1950. Today, one in nine...

Health Plans Push for Routine Chlamydia Screening.
If you're not routinely screening sexually active young women for Chlamydia trachomatis now, your health plan may soon ask you to change your ways. Starting Jan. 1,2000, the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), a group that tracks health plan performance, will add annual chlamydia screening of...