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As we often say at Patient Power, there is no one source for medical information. The same is true when it comes to support for patients. No one organization is THE place to go and has all the answers. That may sound obvious. But just as it has taken a long time [...] Thank God television and movie script writers are starting to “get it.” Cancer, “The Big C,” doesn’t always kill people, or maim them, or steal their dreams. Lately there have been new TV shows acknowledging cancer as part of life that many can live through. There’s a new movie coming called 50/50 about a young [...] When I was growing up I would read about scientists. I had this image of super smart people in white lab coats being some place far away – untouchable – and hunched behind microscopes. Growing up in the 50’s I thought of Dr. Jonah Salk and what he discovered to wipe out polio. No more [...] I speak to people in the pharmaceutical industry much more than folks who develop medical devices. I know how pharma researchers spend years and hundreds of millions of dollars trying to develop a useful, safe new drug that the FDA will approve for marketing. Certainly there are big payoffs, but the road is filled with [...] |
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