Henry Black and George Lundberg on combating the misinformation in consumer medical news, the ethics of the physician as entertainer, and other ills that plague medical reporting.

Dr David Kerr reports on a compelling epidemiologic study of lifetime risk for cancer in the United Kingdom demonstrating that for many adults, there is now a 1 in 2 chance of getting cancer.

Shared decision-making about your personal health choices is more complicated than you may realize, says Dr Lundberg.

NIH Director Francis Collins describes the challenges and opportunities of launching the President's precision medicine initiative.

Dr Fryhofer provides a summary of important information about the recently licensed HPV 9 vaccine.

Oncologists Cliff Hudis, past president of ASCO, and Sid Mukherjee talk about the PBS documentary adapted from Mukherjee's Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Emperor of All Maladies.