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When to Offer Health Advice to a Stranger?

If you travel a lot, or you move to a new country as I have, you notice differences in people. Are people thinner than back home? Do they eat healthier food? Do they walk more and use their cars less? Do they smoke? As a reader of my blog you think about health issues. You [...]

Cancer in Someone Hairier Than Me and You

Peanut has a blood cancer – non- Hodgkin lymphoma – and she’s getting great medical care. Do you know her? If you live in South Florida you might. This is one cancer patient who is getting a lot of publicity. Is she a movie star or politician? No. Is she a well-known patient advocate? No. [...]

A Star is Born

As you may know, I have been hosting audio, video and town meeting programs for patients since 1984. And, along the way, I became a patient too, diagnosed with CLL leukemia in 1996. I have been so fortunate to have been restored to good health for many years to let me “keep on keeping on.” [...]

A Bad Diagnosis for a Good Person

My 19 year old daughter had just flown back to the States after great travel through Europe. There’s one more fling before college starts again – a rock concert in Chicago. And then she read a text from a close college friend. The 19-year-old is having brain surgery at a major medical center – UPMC [...]