The latest sorta-presidential candidate to say the C-Word is famous teevee star Fred Thompson. The scary looking old man says he was diagnosed with lymphoma two years ago. But it’s in remission, he doesn’t even have any symptoms, and it’s “easily treatable with drugs” should it ever return. MORE »

In a shrewd bid for that public service Pulitzer, the New York Times has been running a series of articles about five diseases that, while extinct in the developed world, continue to afflict Third World nations. In Sunday’s paper, the Times reported on filariasis, a disease of the lymphatic system that causes swelling and fever. MORE »