cancer

Colorectal cancer cases among Americans age 55 and younger nearly doubled between 1995 and 2019. Why? What can people do to lower their risk?

This week on the podcast, two stories about women setting a brave — and joyful — new course in the wake of sickness and loss.

The success of the legal strategy increases the likelihood that this becomes the first in a series of complaints seeking compensation for, and control of, Lacks’ cells.

Insurers will be prohibited from imposing fees on breast and lung testing.

This week on the podcast, two tales about curative powers that fall outside the established medical field.

Johns Hopkins neuroscientist David Linden’s life has been studying how the brain decodes what makes us human. Now the self-described “science nerd” is applying his curiosity to his own diagnosis of terminal cancer. We ask how he’ll spend the time he has left.

We’ll go On the Record with neuroscientist David Linden. He studies how the brain makes sense of the world and our place in it. Now he’s applying some of what he’s learned to making sense of his own diagnosis of terminal cancer.

On Baltimore City’s first official Indigenous Peoples’ Day holiday, Maryland’s COVID positivity rate remains below four percent. The governor plans to replace a detention center in Baltimore with a therapeutic treatment facility. Students in Anne Arundel are testing out of quarantine. And in recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, some advice from a breast surgeon on how to manage your breast health.

Getting in-person cancer care may come with added risk during the COVID-19 pandemic. But doctors have been thinking of new forms of treatment and taking…

The Maryland Senate will have a new leader for the first time in 33 years when the legislature reconvenes in January.As expected, Senate President Thomas…