Tweet Cancer mortality has declined since initiation of the “war on cancer,” in 1971, an American Cancer Society study found. American Cancer Society epidemiologist Ahmedin Jemal and colleagues used nationwide cancer mortality data for 1970-2006. They found for all cancers combined, death rates per 100,000 in men increased from 249.3 in 1970 to 279.8 in 1990, and then decreased to 221.1 in 2006, yielding a relative decline of 21 perce ... Jump to full article >>

Tweet Don’t want to make the same old resolution again? A great way to look at resolutions is to think about the things you learned in the past year and make them a part of your life in the New Year. What news in 2009 will make you live differently in 2010? I asked my colleagues at Health what they thought were the biggest health stories of 2009—research they shared with their friends, news that made them change the way they care for themselv ... Jump to full article >>