Debra Sherman
Correspondent
Correspondent
Editor's Note: Debra Sherman died of cancer in April 2014. We were honored to have known her and to share her blogs about her cancer journey with Center for Health Journalism Digital readers.
I've been with Reuters since 1994 and have covered health for the last 12 years, focusing on medical technology. I am currently based in Chicago. Before getting on the health beat (my favorite), I covered U.S. stock, commodity and deriviative markets. I also covered the British stock market in the late 1990s while working for Reuters in London.
<p>The skyrocketing cost of new cancer treatments is putting advances in fighting the deadly disease out of reach for a growing number of Americans.</p>
<p>A new generation of heart devices is giving new hope to patients. Their use has increased 10-fold since January, but ethical quandaries loom: When is it appropriate to disconnect the device and let a patient die?</p>
<p>Reforms unlikely to defeat obesity</p>