How to tank a cancer-fighting drug

There's a liquid drug that women can get injected into a layer of muscle -- three separate times over a six-month period -- that can protect them from a kind of cancer. From a scientific perspective, that's amazing. In terms of public health, it's a breakthrough.

Love lessons from bad breakups

I'm getting married in two months, and now I see why checking into a mental facility is likewise called "committing yourself." Luckily, not one of my mini nervous breakdowns since accepting Paul's proposal has been about him.

Delightful return of 'Nanny McPhee' but not so for 'Vampires'

Five years have elapsed since Emma Thompson made her mark as the flipside of Mary Poppins, a caretaker of the young who only emerges when she is needed and not wanted.

I never knew Cousins was using drugs

I FIRST saw Ben Cousins play when coach of West Coast and he was still at school running around as a chubby little half-forward.

Point of Terror

Recommended The Movie: Point Of Terror , a Crown International film from 1971, isn't really a horror film. The cover art for the DVD (taken from the original poster art, and rightly so) would certainly lead you to believe that and the trailer for the film absolutely tries (and nearly succeeds) to pass it off as one, but this is basically a really bad soap opera with some naked boobies that come ...

Not many films are really fun for the whole family

As I write this I’m gearing up to review the family film “ Nanny McPhee Returns,” which hits theaters on Friday . Mostly that means trying to put myself in a childlike state.