Bios
Alan Cassels
Stories by Alan Cassels
Breast X-Rays: The Pros and Cons May Surprise You
Mammographies save lives, but not as often as you might think. Know the downsides. Last in a series on medical screening.
Screening for Prostate Cancer: 'Poster Child' for Overdiagnosis
Before you get that test, know the potential problems as well as payoffs. Fifth in a series on medical screening.
Teen Screen: Should We Be Testing for Mental Illness?
The push is on to early identify youth with mental disorders. Do we really know how? Fourth in a series on medical screening.
Screen Your Genes? Be Careful
Genetic tests will more likely shake you up than settle your illness risk concerns.
Welcome to the Heart Scanning Industrial Complex
The truth about tests that claim to help keep your ticker ticking. Second in a series.
Do You Really Need that Medical Test?
Today begins a series on hidden risks of medical screening, and how its benefits can be oversold.
Heart Drugs Are Huge, but New Harms Emerge
Statins' side-effects show what you don't feel might hurt you.
Celebrity Drug Dealers
Selling menopause 'cures' that proved dangerous hasn't change the game.
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- Abbott blames teachers' union, hints at legislation
- Greens exaggerating fracking fears 'to control you': Santorum
- Prime Minister Harper mixes oil with human rights on visit to China
- Civil jury finds former BC premier Vander Zalm guilty of defamation
- Vancouver theatre runs down curtain on section of BC's outdated liquor laws
- BC Premier Clark to replace throne speech with radio appearance
- 'The Kids Are All Right'
- 'Leave Your Shoes On'
- Glaciers, BC Hydro's Melting 'Batteries'
- Frankie Rose Makes Life Tougher for Journalists
- Too Much Energy Used to Mine, Move Bitumen Says BC Firm
- Becoming the Ethical Hunter
- Shadow Workers of the World, Revolt!
- Three Ryan Gosling Pickup Techniques that Don't Work in Real Life
- Could SOPA Pervade Canadian Copyright Law?
- Would You Buy a Used Car from These Libs?
- Shadow Workers of the World, Revolt!
- Economist Calls Gateway Pipeline an Inflationary 'Threat'
- Bill Rees' Last Lecture
- Too Much Energy Used to Mine, Move Bitumen Says BC Firm
- Is Canada Ignoring Signs of a Coming Economic Collapse?
- Harper in China
- How First Nations Are Gearing Up for Legal Battle Against Gateway
- Eleven Oily Questions for Every MP
- Remembering Lloyd Dykk's Wit, Generosity and Superb Prose
- BC Child Care Advocates in Geneva to Complain to UN
- BC, You Love You
- Shadow Workers of the World, Revolt!
- Who Pays Huge Power Bills for Clark's Gas Plants?
- Make It the Canadian Webcasting Corporation
- Harper in China
- When the Prize Is a Chance to Toil on BC's Farms
- Three Ryan Gosling Pickup Techniques that Don't Work in Real Life
- Would You Buy a Used Car from These Libs?
- Time to Zip John Baird's Loose Lips
- Foreign Trade Zones Eyed for Vancouver, Prince Rupert, Prince George
- Board, BC mayors make the case for Vancouver transit audit
- Tensions flare over Vancouver-owned mine in Oaxaca
- Osoyoos Times editor apologizes for comments on RCMP
- BC premier delivers talk show 'throne speech'
- NDP leadership: Thomas Mulcair ahead on first ballot, internal poll suggests
- Sky is the limit for use of mini, unmanned planes
- Prime Minister by day, oil exec by night
- Animal-made 'art' challenges human monopoly on creativity
