Cancer

Angela Buchanan: Posing As Gynecologist, She Tricks Woman Into Months of Sex and a Civil Union

We've heard some strange cases of online impersonation, but this one, as the Brits say, takes the biscuit. Last night Jessica Cooley of the Lufkin Daily News broke the story of Angela Buchanan, a 30-year-old woman evidently smitten with a 51-year-old lady. Buchanan and the woman had been messaging ... More >>

Susan G. Komen Backs Out of Its Planned Parenthood Fiasco (UPDATED)

The ribbon's been a bit charred this week.​New Coke, you have a new rival for corporate ineptness. In a statement on its Web site, the Texas-based Susan G. Komen breast-cancer organization has reversed its fiasco of a decision to cut off funds to Planned Parenthood. We want to apologize to t ... More >>

Iron Men: Five Rock 'n' Roll Cancer Survivors

Sad news emerged today that heavy metal godfather Tony Iommi has been diagnosed with the early stages of lymphoma. It was a big shock for Black Sabbath fans, as the group's original lineup have a new album and a world tour planned for 2012. Though already counted among rock and roll's ultimate sur ... More >>

50/50

Cancer memoir meets Seth Rogen comedy in the slightly uncomfortable film.

CRAVE Cupcakes Team With MD Anderson to Fight Cancer

​CRAVE Cupcakes does more for the Houston community than just give away its "morning cupcakes" as lagniappe at lunch. The cupcake company has partnered with MD Anderson Children's Cancer Hospitals's Art in Medicine program to raise awareness about childhood cancer. Pediatric cancer patients h ... More >>

St. Baldrick's Day Celebration

Blow Hard: Burzynski Gets Favorable Media Coverage

Media darling, Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski​We were glad to see that Austin's FOX affiliate gave Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski -- you know, the doctor who cured cancer -- his second big Texas media blowjob of the month. Houston's KHOU was first with a segment on Great Day Houston back in May. FOX Austin refe ... More >>

Dynamo Fight Revolution, Breast Cancer This Weekend

The Revolution are coming! The Revolution are coming!​The Houston Dynamo have teamed up with Methodist Cancer Center to bring awareness for Breast Cancer. The Dynamo will have a special $20 ticket package for this Sunday's home match against the New England Revolution. The package will include a t ... More >>

Dynamo's Boswell Learns About Boobies

From SBHouston comes word of this video, put up by the Houston Dynamo's Bobby Boswell, of his efforts to film a puvlic-service announcement for Breast Cancer Awareness night.We're not sure how many of these "bloopers" are planned -- especially since the finished product at the end is recorded with ... More >>

Bald in the Land of Big Hair

A Texas woman's follicle envy

Can Music Fight Cancer? MD Anderson's Celebration Singers Think So

Earlier this year, we lost God himself Ronnie James Dio to cancer. Dio had been valiantly fighting the disease at Houston's own MD Anderson Cancer Center. Approximately 1,500 people in America die every day of cancer, but MD Anderson continues to find new avenues to help heal those afflicted, incl ... More >>

Lead Plaintiff In "Toxic Town" Lawsuit Dies

Photo by Daniel Kramer​A little over two years ago, the Houston Press published an award-winning story looking into Somerville, a small town 90 miles northwest of here that contained a plant that made railroad ties."Toxic Town" described the high rate of cancer in the town and focused on the lead ... More >>

What's Your Bra Color? Nah, You Can Do Better

Unless you're one of these ladies, we probably don't care about your bra color.​Black. Beige. Nude. Purple. Fuchsia. What do these colors have in common? Perhaps they resemble the spectrum of brilliance you projectile puked after a particularly steep, single-handed tab at Shot Bar. Good gues ... More >>

R.I.P. Former Ale House and Stag's Head Manager Angela Mullan Jenkins

​A wake will be held from 2-3:30 p.m. Saturday at the Stag's Head Pub for Angela Mullan Jenkins, who passed away Thursday from breast cancer complications. Jenkins came to Houston from Northern Ireland over 30 years ago and worked briefly for a division of Baker-Hughes before beginning her career ... More >>

Cafe Reads: Denise Hazen

An author shares personal stories about triumph over adversity

Sunday's Walk for the Breast Cancer Network of Strength

Photo by Margaret DowningBetty Trobaugh was there in a wheelchair. She enlisted the help of her three daughters to push her through the three-mile course. The first half of the non-competitive walk which started at Sam Houston Park and went down Allen Parkway wasn't bad -- all downhill. Coming back ... More >>

Important "Toxic Town" Trial Starts Up Today

Photo by Daniel KramerThe polluters who turned Somerville into the Toxic Town described in an award-winning Houston Press story may have had a good result in the first lawsuit they faced, but a second one -- beginning a week from today in the town of Caldwell in Burleson County -- may be different. ... More >>

Cancer Doctor Stanislaw Burzynski Sees Himself as a Crusading Researcher, Not a Quack

He's treated thousands of people from all over the world, so why can't he get FDA approval?

Houston's Darque Tan, Leading The Fight Against Cancer

National Cancer Organization Wants Hot Dogs Out of HISD Schools

National Cancer Organization Wants Hot Dogs Out of HISD Schools

Rick Perry's HPV Vaccine Has A New Market: Immigrants

Getting Off On Fighting Crime

Elizabeth Edwards

The politician’s wife discusses her life — the good and the bad

Tax Break for the Rich II

Strange Shape: Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo Named to Texas Monthly List

Toxic Town: Cancer and Birth Defects in Somerville

In Somerville, chances are far better than normal that you will die of cancer or give birth to a deformed baby

Rick Perry Talks Cancer at the Texas Life Science Conference

This Just In: Hard Rock Hosting Melissa Etheridge Listening Party

Mail Call

Snake Snark

No, Thanks. We'll Take Cancer.

Re: Behind the Scenes of a Conference Call

People's Lives

Andrew McMahon is in remission and on the road

A Positive Spin

TRU Dat

All's Mel

Water You Doing This Weekend?

Nothing? Then paddle to the 34th annual Buffalo Bayou Regatta

Step Up

It's cardio for a cause at this weekend's Race for the Cure

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Best Aero

Mac Attack

A cancer patient sues McDonald's, contending a peppered burrito caused his nosebleed

John Prine with Iris DeMent

Friday, December 6

Calories for a Cause

Help fight breast cancer with a sugary snack

Best Dancer/Choreographer/Social Advocate

Jane Weiner

Support without Brassieres

Celebrating mammaries and their many euphemisms

Bayou City Body Snatchers

How cold war fears fueled a hot market for Houston's human parts business.

Seeking the Cure

Ill Treatment

Dr. Carlos Fernandez is battling malpractice charges and his business associates at the Bellaire Cancer Treatment Center

A Question of Power

Do fields from high power lines cause childhood cancer? Years of research have revealed few solid facts. But Joe Jamail has charged the answer is yes, and HL&P knows it. He's headed to court to prove his case - or to dig into the utility's deep pockets.

Hightower Corner

The Chemical/Cancer Connection