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Acupuncture for Lymphedema

bcconnections wrote 2 weeks ago: By Rebecca Olson, Life Science Research Assistant, Stanford Cancer Institute and Breast Cancer Conne … more →

Tags: Complementary medicine, Side Effects, studies, Acupuncture, breast cancer side effects, Cancer, Holistic, Lymphedema, Needles

Dr. Monica Morrow on Breast Cancer

The Anti-Cancer Club wrote 4 weeks ago: This is an excellent interview by Zoraida Sambolin with Dr. Monica Morrow from Memorial Sloan Ketter … more →

Tags: Cancer Resources, doctors, Anti-Cancer, take charge, Diagnosis, Psychology and cancer, anti-cancer health, Anti-Cancer Club, Cancer Research

Breast Cancer Gene Mutation Also Reveals Risk For Ovarian Cancer1 comment

Harlem World Magazine wrote 4 weeks ago: Anna Ruffino lost her aunt in January 2012, then her mother that November, to the same disease. … more →

Tags: health, Healthy Harlem, harlem health, cancer, Angelina Jolie, Cancer, ovarian cancer, BRCA mutation, mastectomy

Watson Goes to Washington, Shows Off Latest Health-Care Work to Lawmakers

greateribm wrote 1 month ago: - by Emi Kolawole, in The Washington Post IBM supercomputer Watson was in Washington, D.C. late last … more →

Tags: Connect With IBM, leadership, Learn and Share, Stay informed, learn, IBM Research, Technology, Innovation, Health Care

The Process of Making Meaning from the Cancer Experience1 comment

The Anti-Cancer Club wrote 2 months ago: This is an excellent talk from Wendy Lichtenthal, a clinical psychologist at Memorial Sloan-Ketterin … more →

Tags: Food for Thought, Life With Cancer, Health 2, Anti-Cancer, Psychology and cancer, anti-cancer health, impact of words, Anti-Cancer Club, cancer and stress

Cycle For Survival Takes Manhattan

agirltravels wrote 2 months ago: March 2nd and 3rd Cycle For Survival took over Manhattan at 3 Equinox gyms Thousands of riders joine … more →

Tags: Charity, Fitness, New York City, Cycle for Survival, A Girl Travels, Retinoblastoma, Cystic Ovarian Cancer, Ovations for the Cure, Equinox Fitness Center

Joseph Chetrit and Partners Sling $150 M. at Former Cabrini Medical Center Site

abarbarinobserver wrote 3 months ago: Joseph Chetrit is in contract to purchase the 1.5-acre former Cabrini Medical Center site at Second … more →

Tags: 1275 York Avenue, 525 East 73rd Street, Cabrini Medical Center, Clipper Equities, Harry Macklowe, Joseph Chetrit, joseph sitt, Mark Weiss, Mayor Michael Bloomberg

Robin Roberts returns to GMA, discusses treatment and clinical trial participation

ccrcanderson wrote 3 months ago: Written by: Toni Mullin, Data Coordinator  Robin Roberts is back at work co-hosting Good Morning Ame … more →

Tags: Community Clinical Research Center, Research, Celebrities, MDS, stem cell transplantation, Graft-versus-Host, Treatment, Testimonial

Dr. Watson Goes to Work1 comment

Rich wrote 4 months ago: Back in early 2011, I wrote a number of posts here about IBM’s Watson system, which scored a c … more →

Tags: health health care, Intelligent Systems, Cancer, IBM, Medical diagnosis, Watson, WellPoint

Does Size Really Matter? - Deciding On A Health Facility

pedelmanjr wrote 4 months ago: Memorial Sloan Kettering.  The Mayo Clinic.  MD Anderson.  University Of Pennsylvania.  The list goe … more →

Tags: Cancer, Family and Friends, the heart, Side Effects, Inspired By, cancer, Treatments, Hodgkin's Disease, Heart Surgery

Cycle for Survival, Join Me?5 comments

theshellhammer wrote 4 months ago:   Doesn’t this sound like fun? It also sounds really intense and I think it will be! Don … more →

Tags: New York experiences, Cancer, Cycle for Survival, rare cancer, Research

Reality TV Bites! My Pitch To The Major Networks

pedelmanjr wrote 4 months ago: Shows based on reality.  Oh, the humanity! “You’re gonna lose your mind watchin’ T … more →

Tags: Cancer, Adoption, Bullying, Family and Friends, Education, Recreation, animals, the heart, Food

Service6 comments

Tracey wrote 5 months ago: I came across this meme on Facebook over the summer, and saved it to my desktop. Every now and then, … more →

Tags: Politics, health, Barack Obama, breast cancer, National Day of Service, Cancer

Headed in the Right Direction

BcomingFree wrote 5 months ago: Since we couldn’t get the answers we wanted from the doctors we visited, my mom called a docto … more →

Tags: cancer, hospital, Cancer, Pain, health, Medicine, Chemotherapy, Radiation, chemo

In 2012, Hospitals Expand Real Estate Footprints, from Brooklyn to Harlem

abarbarinobserver wrote 6 months ago: The city’s aging population, a drive for state-of-the-art facilities and strong hiring across the he … more →

The Cancer Bomb: How Nuclear Sludge Gave Birth to an Experimental Leukemia Drug

pclarkobserver wrote 6 months ago: Milking nuclear sludge (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) In the early years of the Cold War, U.S. scie … more →

Tags: Dr. David Scheinberg, uranium 233, thorium, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Actinium Pharmaceuticals, actinium-225

A Visit to Memorial Sloan-Kettering

karinatayag wrote 6 months ago: Kapampangan—my native dialect—is spoken by a very, very small population of the world. You could onl … more →

Tags: Cancer, toxic waste

Life, Interrupted: Hurricanes and Cancer - NYTimes.com2 comments

Andrew wrote 7 months ago: Yet another aspect to Hurricane Sandy and its impact of ongoing cancer (and other) treatment  from S … more →

Tags: lymphoma cancer, Medicine, Suleika Jaouad, NYTimes, life interrupted, Sandy

A Hospital Says ‘No’ to an $11,000-a-Month Cancer Drug - NYTimes.com

Andrew wrote 8 months ago: multivu.com A good piece by Memorial Sloan-Kettering oncologists on intelligent and appropriate cost … more →

Tags: lymphoma cancer, Medicine, Cancer Drugs, drugs, Colon Cancer, Avastin, Peter Bach, leonard-saltz, Zaltrap


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