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The Bottomline at ASH for Patients

Andrew sums up what all the news out of ASH means for you, the patient. [...]

Promising Lymphoma News

Andrew blogs from the first day of the American Society of Hematology’s 52nd Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida, highlighting the day’s discussions.

Promising Lymphoma News from Patient Power® on Vimeo.

Popular Health Search: Your Doctor’s Name

Andrew takes you behind the scenes of what health information people are searching for online, and how we know. [...]

The Tyranny of Life Insurance Companies

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 [...]

The Issues From ASCO

The Issues From ASCO from Patient Power® on Vimeo.

Birthday Breakfast with “ The Miracle Baby”

My youngest child, Eitan, is 13 today and we are all looking forward to his Bar Mitzvah (Jewish coming of age ceremony) next weekend. This morning Esther and I took Eitan out for a bagel breakfast before school. He loves the attention, of course.

Any parent would rejoice in having a growing, healthy kid, but [...]

Beyond the Sisterhood of Mammograms

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 [...]

22-Year-Old Cancer Survivor: Model Powerful Patient

Caroline Hale, of Nashville, is an incredibly articulate recent college graduate who is an exemplary cancer survivor. I was delighted to have her as a guest on our Cancer Survivorship webcast earlier this week, sponsored by Vanderbilt Medical Center. We asked Caroline if she would write a guest blog. She responded with her usual passion [...]

How A Cancer Survivorship Program Saves Lives

As you may know, I am a 13-year leukemia survivor and delighted to take no medication and live a full life every day. Because of the many interviews I do with experts it has hit home that I am at higher risk for other cancers, very late effects of the powerful medicines I took in [...]

Bada Bing! We’re Tops in Health Search

I am so excited! As you may know, Microsoft is launching its revved up search engine, “bing,” in an effort to finally do some catching up on Google and, if their dream can come true, surpass them. The hope is that “bing it” will become common in our language just like “google it” has.

Bing [...]