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Kara, her mom and me When someone is stricken with a serious illness their world is rocked. I know, it has happened to me with cancer twice. And, in this age of social media, you might well go searching online for information and posting your story of fear and uncertainty. The health-related communities are [...] Pharmacists are among the most accessible of medical professionals, but sometimes we hesitate to consult with them about our medications, or we forget they are there to help. Don’t hesitate to ask your pharmacist! Learn more… 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 [...] Today Andrew Pollack, reporter for The New York Times, wrote a front page story about Dr. Lowy, hot chemo, and how other medical centers are now picking up on it for other advanced cancers including colon and ovarian. They are even advertising it as one last bit of hope when often there is virtually none. Now, some of the big names in GI cancers are suggesting this approach has merit and may offer longer survival then some super expensive drugs. There’s a debate going on. [...] Andrew blogs from the 2nd day of the American Society of Hematology’s 52nd Annual Meeting. [...] Hear what’s hot in new information for your heart as Andrew is on location at the AHA in Chicago.
Chicago Heart Smarts from Patient Power® on Vimeo. I have always heard that Northwestern Mutual Life (“The Quiet Company”) was a grade A company. And for years I have been happy to have a disability insurance policy and a term life one with them. I got those policies back in the early 1990’s and it was a good thing I did. In 1996 [...] More and more people are telling me their own Powerful Patient stories. I love it! I heard this one at lunch today in Las Vegas as I reconnected in-person with CLL friend Dave Garcia, 50, a veteran pit boss at the famous Bellagio casino. Dave and I met via the Internet seven years ago after [...] I have never had a mammogram. No doctor would recommend one for me, a 59-year-old male. But they would for any woman over 40. Yet many women don’t have them, or forget to keep having them yearly. So our partner, the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, is spearheading a novel campaign in the Pacific Northwest to [...] |
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