HACKENSACK, N.J. — For just a moment, patients can forget they’re in a cancer center.
The Manhattan skyline offers a spectacular background for lush boxwoods, vibrant flowers, and the herbs and vegetables growing in the rooftop garden at the John Theurer Cancer Center at the Hackensack University Medical Center.
The garden,...
MINNEAPOLIS — Christian Peterson has heard the questions so many times that he has stock answers ready: Yes, he knows that he’s running barefoot. No, he didn’t run so fast that he came out of his shoes. And, for the record, he’s not crazy.
He has one more answer that typically comes as surprise: It’s not painful. “People are always...
Developing more sensitive screening methods so physicians can detect cancer sooner is only part of the battle. Making these screenings available to the public is another key step. To accomplish that, researchers face several hurdles, one of which is knowing whom to screen.
Screening everyone would bankrupt the medical system. So...
Denise “Deni” Hill had been telling everybody for months: “I am going to win.”
She told family, friends, trainers and “The Biggest Loser” that she was going to take the at-home prize at the “The Biggest Loser: Couples” finale on May 24.
“I shocked them all. I don’t think they saw it coming,” said Hill, of Bountiful, who did,...
MIAMI — Savannah Sill’s summer break is a fantasy vacation for even the most fervent travel buff.
She will start out in New England, hang a right past the Great Lakes, drop in on Minnesota’s Twin Cities, cruise through America’s heartland and scale the Rockies before finally winding down in Seattle.
But her cross-continental...
