Hospital coffee (1)
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It’s much better than it used to be. Hospital coffee, I mean. You can get varieties now. There are carts that give you as many choices as you could ever want. Not that it matters much to me. Black, usually with caffeine. The other week as I was walking down the hall carrying a cup of coffee, I wondered whether it would bother the person I was visiting. Then I decided that I wouldn’t worry ...
Gum May Aid Colon Surgery Recovery (1)
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British researchers found that patients who chewed gum after undergoing colon surgery had bowel movements sooner than those who did not. What do...
MBIs Hold Hope For Early Detection (1)
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From the Mayo Clinic comes word that Molecular Breast Imaging is More Effective than Mammography at Detecting Cancer in High-Risk Women with Dense Breasts The information released this week says "MBI is a relatively new screening method that, while more expensive than mammography, is about one-fifth of the cost of breast MRI (magnetic resonance imaging). With MBI, patients are injected with a short-living radioactive agent that is absorbed by breast tissue. This agent is tracked ...
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I'd like to cry more (1)
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I haven't cried for awhile. Back when doctors first found my cancer, more than a year and half ago, I cried frequently. Later in the year, after I'd been through chemo and radiation and surgery and catastrophic weight loss and side effects, I would sometimes wake in the night and sob in my wife's arms, "I don't want to die." I still don't, and I still have cancer. I'm still taking chemotherapy every two weeks, ...
French doctors use laser to destroy brain tumor in conscious patient (7)
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Filed under: Misc. GadgetsNeurosurgery with robotic assistance is getting pretty old hat nowadays, so it looks like scientists are trying to up the difficulty factor by keeping their patients awake -- a team of French doctors just completed the first successful removal of malignant brain tumor from a still-conscious patient, using a computerized laser and an MRI scanner to guide the probe. The fiber-optic laser was fed into the brain through a 3mm (.12 inch) ...
French doctors use laser to destroy brain tumor in conscious patient - Engadget (29)
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Filed under: Misc. GadgetsNeurosurgery with robotic assistance is getting pretty old hat nowadays, so it looks like scientists are trying to up the difficulty factor by keeping their patients awake -- a team of French doctors just completed the first successful removal of malignant brain tumor from a still-conscious patient, using a computerized laser and an MRI scanner to guide the probe. The fiber-optic laser was fed into the brain through a 3mm (.12 inch) ...
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wvpv said:
that's pretty stinkin' amazing.
Pink Ribbon Coins in Canada (1)
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Hey all you Pink Ribbon Review readers — have you seen the Royal Canadian Mint’s 25-Cent Breast Cancer Circulation Coin? Thirty million of these coins entered into circulation beginning on April 1, 2006. Seriously … does anyone have one? Does anyone want to send me one?? I did some research. This is an award winning coin: It recently received the “Most Technologically Advanced Circulation Coin Award” (August 2008) from the Mint Directors Conference. It was ...
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Sarah Reede said:
I would pay one of my Canadian gals for one of these, please.
Quotes of the Day: Opinions on the FDA Declaring BPA Safe (1)
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We noted recently that a draft report from the FDA concludes that BPA is safe for babies. The response from others: "The FDA's assessment relies on just two studies which were funded by the American Chemistry Council (ACC). This ignores dozens of other studies done by independent scientists which have found evidence of health consequences," Dr. Sarah Janssen, a physician and scientist with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). "The chemical industry's efforts to hide ...
Inflammation, aging, and cancer (2)
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A number of relatively recent review articles have discussed the connections between inflammation and aging, as well as between aging and cancer. The connections between all three of these scourges have now been reviewed by Vasto et al., who pay special attention to the neglected arm of the triangle — the relationship between inflammation and tumorigenesis. Inflammation, ageing and cancer Cancer is generally recognized as an age-related disease. In fact, incidence and mortality rates of ...
Health checks (1)
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Filed under: Fitness, Food and Nutrition, General Health, Healthy Aging, HealthWatchA recent review in the Annals of Internal Medicine shows that many people go for their annual physical not because they feel it is necessary, but to ease their worries of the unknown. Makes sense to me. Still, there are other health checks you should undergo on a fairly regular basis, as they may not always present immediately symptoms.Cholesterol. After turning 45, it's wise to ...
Incense may lead to increased risk of cancer (1)
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Filed under: Teens & tweens, Health & safety, Alcohol & drugsI've never liked the smell of incense and actually find it rather discomforting. When I was in high school, however, a lot of kids I knew liked burning it -- quite possibly as a means to cover up certain other odors they didn't want noticed by their parental units. It turns out, though, that they may have been better off taking their chances on getting ...
Nano-Sunscreens Not As Effective (1)
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Image source: Getty Images The Cosmetics Design-Europe website reported this week that scientists at the University of Rochester found that sunscreens containing nanoparticles are not as effective at protecting people with sun-damaged skin. Tests done on lab mice using quantum dot nanoparticles (to simulate the titanium dioxide nanoparticles found in sunscreens) showed that the particles "penetrated UV damaged skin more than non-compromised skin." This is particularly important as people put sunscreen on burned skin therefore ...
Freakonomics: What Does a Sick C.E.O. Do to His Company? (27)
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When Steve Jobs was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2003, Apple waited until after his surgery to tell the public and shareholders - yet company stock only fell 2.4 percent on the next trading day. But Jobs's gaunt appearance while speaking at the Worldwide Developers Conference in June and the speculation about his health [...]
La muerte súbita mata más que los accidentes, el cáncer de pulmón y el sida (1)
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La muerte súbita es una muerte inesperada, no traumática, que produce una pérdida brusca de la conciencia y de la que se puede volver si se llega a tiempo. Pero también cada año acaba con más vidas que los accidentes de tráfico, el cáncer de pulmón y el Sida juntos.Según los datos que maneja el director de la unidad de arritmias del Hospital Marqués de Valdecilla, Juan José Olalla, es una de las principales causas ...
A Pop-Star Pastor's Public Fall and the Christian Cult of Celebrity (by Jarrod McKenna) (3)
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It was only last month that Sydney newspaper The Herald Sun's Faithworks blog carried a post with this paragraph: There is an amazing moment on the latest Hillsong DVD, This Is Our God, when Michael Guglielmucci, stricken with cancer, walks on stage with an oxygen tent to boldly sing his song "Healer." He doesn't know how long he has to live, but still proclaims the goodness of his God. Earlier in the year, Mike's overtly ...
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when are we going to stop pedestal-izing, then crucifying our leaders when they inevitably fail?
Women’s Health in the News (1)
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photo credit: Stig Nygaard For those of you who didn’t know, I have a heart for Africa and especially African women’s health. I keep my eyes out for African women’s health news and I was encouraged to see that cervical cancer is becoming a news headline in Ghana. Ghana News - Women’s Health: Cervical Cancer. If you’re at all interested in African women’s health, you should drop me a line, I’d love to talk more ...
'D'-fender of the year (1)
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Filed under: Fitness, Food and Nutrition, General Health, Women's Health, Men's HealthVitamin D is very unique in that it can be obtained not only from diet, but also from exposure to sunlight (which is kind of strange, then, that milk supposedly loses many of its nutrients if it is exposed to light, but I digress ... ) This is good news, since a report appearing in the Archives of Internal Medicine shows that 400 IU ...
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Stand Up To Cancer (http://www.StandU...) is an initiative to raise philanthropic dollars for accelerating ground breaking research through an unprecedented collaboration uniting the major television networks, entertainment industry executives, celebrities and prominent leaders in cancer research and patent advocacy [1]. On Friday, September 5th, at 8:00 pm EST and PST, ABC, CBS and NBC will donate one hour of simultaneous commercial-free prime time for a national fundraising event. In 2008, over half a million Americans ...Shared by Walter Jessen (22)Contribute commentTelegraph News (43) permalink
An obituary of verymuchalive Apple founder Steve Jobs has been accidentally published by the respected Bloomberg business news wire.Contribute comment
