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How Your Genes Will Drive Personalized Medicine

This month I was honored to be the master of ceremonies at the Personalized Medicine World Conference in Silicon Valley, California. for the second time. About 850 scientists, venture capitalists and physicians attended and most all of them, have many more letters after their name for advanced degrees than I have! These smart folks have [...]

Graduation Day from a Clot-Preventing Clinical Trial

It’s been six months since a warm, swollen right calf sent me to the emergency room at midnight. Ultrasound showed I had a blog clot in my right leg and an asymptomatic one above the knee in my left. Everyone said it was a good thing I sought care because the complication of a pulmonary [...]

Can You “Grow” a New, Healthy Heart?

We talk a lot about cancer on Patient Power. There’s plenty to talk about. But millions more people have a totally different health problem – they have a sick heart. Beyond helping a damaged heart muscle pump as well as it can, even at a diminished level, what if the cells of the beating heart [...]

The Gift of Marking Time in Days Not Years

 

I have just returned from a terrific family trip to Spain and Portugal. Coming from Seattle, where it can be stormy in winter, I am happy to tell you we had sunny weather throughout. As a cancer survivor who tends to worry about the late effects of treatment from years ago or being diagnosed [...]