It was the sort of headline that I initially assumed was a prank article: “Active ingredient in magic mushrooms reduces anxiety, depression in cancer patients.” Even more so when I couldn’t find the study it was referring to over on PubMed. But this is a real study, and a real finding: the researchers presented at…
Yes, You’re Still Unlucky If You Get Cancer
Last year in January a study came out that was widely reported as, “cancer is totally bad luck and has almost nothing to do with your lifestyle choices!” That wasn’t what it said, as we reported, but they did make the case for a lot of cancer being pure bad luck. A new study1 used…
Why Aren’t You Listening To Your Fingernails?
Taking care of your fingernails helps to project a professional and polished image, no matter your gender. Turns out paying attention to your fingernails actually confers an additional benefit. Your fingernails can tell if you’re suffering from several different rather-not-go-there illnesses. So as a step in your assessment of your health, take a look at…
Google Earth And Street View: Coming Soon To A Cancer Near You
Welcome to the future, where cancer patients can deploy Dennis Quaid in a nano-sized Google car to take street views of their cancer cell DNA! Ok no, that’s obviously and forever squarely in the realm of science fiction. In fact Google Maps doesn’t even have anything at all to do with (other than serving as…
Obviously It Is Bad Luck To Get Cancer
Let me just cut to the tl;dr: yeah, it still totally matters whether or not you smoke. There’s a new study on cancer risk that was published this week in Science. It does not in fact say that the majority of cancer cases are the result of bad luck — though that’s how C|Net reported…