Over the weekend I began to worry if I have been unfair. Just last week in a webcast about the latest comprehensive treatments for brain cancer I urged patients to seek treatment, or at least a consultation, at an academic medical center where they have sub-specialists in neuro-oncology and related specialties. I do believe that [...]

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I have been hosting webcasts about cancer for years. And when it has come to discussing research, one cool area beginning years ago was the idea that a patient could be treated with a cancer vaccine – not one like we receive as kids to prevent a disease, but rather a shot you’d receive after [...]

Here’s the scenario: You are told you have a severe heart rhythm problem. One where your heart could either stop or go into such uncoordinated contractions that you will die…unless a high tech device, a defibrillator, is implanted to instantaneously jolt your heart back into healthy pumping. You are grateful you live in a time [...]