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Lying in bed one night in 2007, Peter Criss felt something strange: a small lump on his left breast.

Malaria. Tuberculosis. Alzheimer's disease. AIDS. Pandemic flu. Genital herpes. Urinary tract infections. Grass allergies. Traveler's diarrhea. You name it, the pharmaceutical industry is working on a vaccine to prevent it.

Tall evergreens outside The Community Hospital's outpatient entrance will soon light up the sky in pink and lavender, in honor of people who light up our lives every day and in hope that a cure will be found for cancer.

This recipe for Szechwan shrimp, made with shrimp, red pepper, ginger, green onions and soy nuts, is both lowfat and delicious.

First mammograms. Now—in an apparent coincidence—Pap smears. New guidelines by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists say most women in their 20s can have a Pap smear every two years instead of annually to catch slow-growing cervical cancer. The change comes amid a separate debate over when regular mammograms to detect breast cancer should begin, in [...]