Dan Dean

After your waste gets hauled away each week, it either goes to a recycling facility or a landfill. While it ceases to be your household problem, it can have severe impacts on your health and the environment.

Tough discussions with friends and family around gun safety can feel awkward. But avoidance can result in dangerous circumstances.

Whether it’s older adults, work commuters, or kids behind the handlebars, there’s no doubt that e-bikes have taken the country by storm.

Researcher Caitlin Fields explores how people decide whether to get the Covid-19 vaccine.

What is the greatest accomplishment in the history of public health? One word, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC): vaccines.

Local residents are taking recycling into their own hands, protecting their health, the health of the planet, and the city’s budget.

Hospital chaplains play a pivotal role in providing care, comfort, and consolation to people going through medical issues including gun violence

Society’s ambivalence toward mass shootings. Our attention clasps on to the next tragedy-du-jour — what psychologists call “psychic numbing”

When children get sick, pediatricians and parents often take the same approach and assume that it’s an everyday malady.

Each of the 1 million Covid-19 deaths leaves behind a web of loved ones. The U.S. is in a state of mass grief.

Is the cost of travel insurance — for trip cancellations or for your health — ever worthwhile?

Only 13% of people over age 65 in the U.S. have a tattoo. Here are a few of them — and the stories their tattoos tell.

Art boosts mental cognition. Working with the brush or camera keeps the artist focused solely in the present moment of creation.

By Dan DeanDan Dean is a writer, cancer survivor, and founder of Cancer Dudes, which supports men after being diagnosed with cancer. dan-dean.com4 essentials to know about healthcare in senior living communities When people consider a move into a senior living community, their health needs often ran…

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Many men hide their emotions and vulnerability in an effort to maintain a sense of manliness or power, but suffering in silence can have drastic implications for men’s health and make cancer treatment more difficult.

Non-Hodgkin lymphoma survivor Dan Dean spoke with several experts about the advances in genomic testing, which have enabled oncologists to treat patients with new “targeted therapies” that fight cancer based on the specific features of a tumor.

At the June 2019 annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), 2 experts discussed the implications of new treatments for chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). The blood cancer known as CLL is often diagnosed late, and until recently the initial treatment was chemotherapy alone.…

“Lung cancer”—what first pops into your head when you hear that?

Cancer survivor Dan Dean weighs the many factors involved when deciding what to tell, or not tell, an employer about a cancer diagnosis and the job-related potential implications.

People affected by cancer find that dating requires a different playbook to navigate through relationships.

The long-term side effects of treatment can be an overlooked part of cancer care. “We’re learning as they’re surviving, and we can’t assume we know everything,” says Pam Simon, MSN.

Non-Hodgkin lymphoma survivor Dan Dean tackles the stigmas and difficulties associated with mental health diagnoses and therapies.

Although adolescents and young adults (AYA) have been recognized as a unique patient population for nearly 30 years, their survival rates for certain types of cancers have stagnated. On one hand, A…

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