Breast Cancer Awareness

Angelina Jolie wrote an op-ed in the NY Times about getting a preventive double mastectomy. She did this because she tested positive as a carrier of the BRCA gene.  If one tests positive for this genetic mutation, one has up to a 65% lifetime risk of getting breast cancer. If one tests positive

Millions are in need of new organs worldwide, and thousands of people die every year while waiting for an organ transplant. By sharing your status on your Facebook Timeline, we can start a movement to save more lives! TAKE THE PLEDGE to share your donor status and invite friends to do the same

Help the CDC track FLU NEAR YOU! (and help us fundraise for cancer research with every flu symptom report!) http://www.flunearyou.org/?a=bef3277d90399c 'Flu Near You' is sponsored by the American Public Health Association and Children's Hospital Boston. What can you do on Flu Near

Harvard's 36-year-long Nurses Health Study is recruiting women to study cancer risk in the next generation of women. And we need your help! The Nurses Health Study needs 100,000 nurses and nursing students to continue its landmark research on breast cancer. Not a nurse but know a friend? Help us