Are Our Attempts to Reduce Risks Of Disease Helping or Harming? Jenny Chen and Robert A. Aronowitz Science & Medicine As a physician in the 1990s, Robert A. Aronowitz was taught to put women who were about to go through menopause on hormone replacement therapy. They were being sold as risk-reducing medicines—they were...
Why is Genome Instability a Hallmark of Cancer and Aging? Irene Park Medicine, Science, Science & Medicine One of my college biology professors once told his students that when a person lives long enough, he or she will eventually get cancer. He wasn’t wrong—older age is a major risk for developing cancer as...
