When you’ve done the type of research I have for nearly a decade, the world looks a bit different to you. Commercials featuring attractive, happy actors living life to the fullest while a soothing, hypnotic voice urges you to “talk with your doctor” about such-and-such a drug look a bit sinister. Breast cancer awareness month […]

For decades, a false but pervasive belief in the medical community suggested that autoimmune disease, developmental disorders, and cancer could be traced back only to the genetic traits and health of the mother. By and large, fathers were off the hook…until now. If you plan to become a father and are obese, new studies have […]

Until my uncle remarried, I had never heard of chemotherapy being used for anything other than cancer. When my new aunt told me she took something called Methotrexate for her rheumatoid arthritis, I assumed it was some kind of painkiller or anti-inflammatory. “No,” she said, with a strange, dreamy kind of smile. “It’s chemotherapy.” I […]