Miller Rhodes

Junk. Barren. Non-functioning. Dark matter. That’s how scientists had described the 98% of human genome that lies between our 21,000 genes, ever since our DNA was first sequenced about a decade ago. The disappointment in those descriptors…

(ROTTERDAM, N.Y.) — One student complains because his cafeteria no longer serves chicken nuggets. Another gripes that her school lunch just isn’t filling. A third student says he’s happy to eat an…

My very first patient died — twice. Less than a week after our White Coat Ceremony — the symbolic start of our medical education, in which we donned short white student coats…

Cancer is now the leading killer of Hispanics in the U.S. — the latest sign it’s beginning to displace heart disease as the nation’s top cause of death. The rest of the…

Teens who send and receive sexually explicit texts or photos, colloquially known as “sexting,” are likely engaging in the same kinds of risky sexual behaviors offline, finds a new survey of Los…

If you are like most Americans, there is a bottle of pain relievers somewhere close by your desk as you read this. Whether to treat a headache, back ache, or sore muscles,…

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recently issued a recommendation for adult women stating that routine screenings for ovarian cancer do not have any proven benefits and may actually have harmful effects. The Task Force is…

DON BAYLEY / GETTY IMAGES Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, have identified a rare, hereditary form of autism that may be treatable with nutritional supplements, a new study reports.…

FIGHTING CANCER  WITH FISH OIL Breast cancer accounts for more than 25 percent of all female cancers. It is also strongly linked to obesity, which means as the obesity crisis accelerates, we…

CHECK EARLY, CHECK OFTEN Second only to heart disease, cancer is a leading cause of death in women in the U.S. The survival rate of breast cancer, specifically, can be greatly reduced…