Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors are becoming more common (the bad news) and also more treatable (the good news).

Pancreatic cancer is a dreaded and especially deadly type of cancer. About 44,000 Americans will be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer this year, accounting for approximately 3% of all cancer diagnoses. Unless some dramatic breakthroughs in treatment occur, fewer than 3,000 will be alive in five years.

Steve Jobs fared better than many with pancreatic cancer. The charismatic co-founder of Apple died on Oct. 5, 2011, almost exactly eight years after his cancer was discovered incidentally on a CT scan of his kidneys (the ...

Research is showing benefits for everything from depression to liver disease. Is it just the caffeine?

Remember when people (and their doctors) used to worry that coffee would harm their hearts, give them ulcers, and make them overly nervous?

In excess, coffee, and more particularly, caffeine, can cause problems. But the fretting about two or three cups a day, or even more, is fading as study results suggestive of health benefits from coffee keep on coming in. In 2011, researchers reported findings that coffee drinking is associated with a lower risk of depression among women, a lower risk of lethal ...

Dr. Paul B. Rizzoli is director of the John R. Graham Headache Center at Faulkner Hospital in Boston. He is co-author of The Migraine Solution: A Complete Guide to Diagnosis, Treatment, and Pain Management, a Harvard Health Publications/St. Martin's Press book.

What is a migraine headache?

Migraine can be defined as a limiting headache — a headache that stops you from functioning. The pain is not a mild, insignificant thing you can ignore; you must actively decide what to do about it. Nausea is also a common symptom.

More and more it seems like migraine is a separate illness. In ...

Two studies showed that people with back pain who took yoga classes experienced some degree of relief.

Identity thieves are targeting medical businesses to deceptively acquire billing information.

Drinking tea or coffee with fish may prevent the body from absorbing mercury in the fish.

Winter's cold temperatures contribute to heart problems.

Q. I take Avodart for my enlarged prostate. But I heard that Avodart increases prostate cancer risk. Is that true? Should I quit taking Avodart?

A. You are on the right track about the cancer risk, but it's complicated.

In June 2011, the FDA did, in fact, add a warning to the label of Avodart and other drugs in its class about the possibility of an increased risk of high-grade prostate cancer. And I was a member of the advisory committee to the FDA that recommended that Avodart and drugs in its class not be approved for prostate cancer prevention ...