A team of researchers at UC Irvine are developing a what it hopes will be a more reliable prostate cancer test that uses urine instead of blood. It involves urinating on a stick coated with a virus that attracts a protein associated with the disease. It would also be very inexpensive. Every year roughly 240,000 men in the US are diagnosed with prostate cancer. The current testing method often finds tumors that are low risk and

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Medicare Has Stopped Paying Bills For Medical Diagnostic Tests. Patients Will Feel The Effects Scott Gottlieb Contributor Unhealthy Prognosis for Venture-Backed Diagnostics Bruce Booth Contributor By Scott Gottlieb, MD Medicare has sharply changed the way it pays for diagnostic tests, cutting payment rates and curtailing coverage for some new tests altogether. The makeover in the way that Medicare reimburses molecular diagnostics has been foreshadowed for years, but was abruptly put into effect this summer. Affected

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Celebs 4 hours ago Dame Helen Mirren all by herself is pretty terrific. But put the 70-year-old Oscar winner in the outfit of the Queen, and she wears it like a superhero. Recently, she stormed outside mid-performance of her London show “The Audience” (in which she plays Queen Elizabeth II) to unload on noisy drummers (and later publicly wore a handmade T-shirt supporting their cause). But her latest deed goes one step further: Last week,

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During a Monday, May 20 press conference at the Palais de Festivals at the Cannes Film Festival, Academy Award winner Michael Douglas held back tears thanking director Steven Soderbergh — who cast him in the over-the-top role of the late Liberace in Behind The Candelabra after his life-threatening battle with stage-four throat cancer. PHOTOS: Stars who’ve conquered cancer “It was right after my cancer that this beautiful gift was given to me,” Douglas, 68, shared with

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Two sisters were escorted from a mall in King of Prussia, Pa., on Sunday because they were wearing hats reading “F— CANCER” with the “C” in the expletive replaced by a pink breast cancer awareness ribbon, the Philadelphia Daily News reported. Zakia Clark, 29, and Tasha Clark, 27, said that they were wearing the shirts to honor their mother, Jackie Underwood, who had passed away on May 14 at the age of 51 after a

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The American Cancer Society — one of the nation’s best known and influential health advocacy groups — is 100 years old this week. Back in 1913 when it was formed, cancer was a lesser threat for most Americans. The biggest killers then were flu, pneumonia, tuberculosis, and stomach bugs. At a time when average life expectancy was 47, few lived long enough to get cancer. But 15 doctors and businessmen in New York City thought

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Illustration: Alexey Malina Right now, as you read these words, your life is in danger. Somewhere within the vast self-contained micro-universe known as you, in one and possibly more of your trillions of cells, something is going wrong. A vital protein, perhaps, is being altered or destroyed as one cell divides to create another. The mutated cell, an incorrect version of its former self, will continue to multiply, compounding and extending its grotesque influence as

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[View the story "Tuesday's Wall St. Events" on Storify] Jeffrey Rowbottom, a managing director at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, was greeting guests Tuesday evening at a charity event at the Sea Grill in Rockefeller Center, when one issued a challenge. “If you give what I consider an acceptable speech, I will put $5,000 in the fund,” said Daniel Toscano, who runs Morgan Stanley‘s leveraged and acquisition finance group. The money would support melanoma research, a cause

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