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A researcher at the University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center has garnered this year's Prevention Science Award, a prestigious prize for contributing research about prevention in the medical sphere. Dr. Scott Okamoto is the first person from Hawaiʻi to receive this recognition, according to UH.
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Members of Hawaiʻi's chapter of the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network gathered at the state's capitol last week to lobby for bills that they hope will save lives.
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Kalo Cornett became a health advocate with the University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center while receiving treatment for her second diagnosis. She now offers free rides to Tongan women from Hauʻula to Honolulu to get mammograms. HPR's Zoe Dym has more.
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Imagine yourself as a “Disease Detective” trying to stitch together clues about how illnesses like cancer and diabetes affects different ethnic groups.We…
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The legislature passed 275 bills and appropriated more than 7 billion dollars in state general funds before it adjourned last week. But as HPR’s Wayne…
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The State Legislature did not provide additional funding this session for the University of Hawai’i Cancer Center which is operating with an annual…