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A Connection Between the Zika Virus and Curing Brain Cancer?
Not long ago, Zika virus was dominating headlines. A new infection was hardly ever heard about before then, yet is now affecting hundreds of thousands of people in Latin America, causing disfiguration and microcephalia in new-born babies. Microcephalia is caused by severe delayed and abnormal development of the brain, resulting in the range of intellectual disability, dwarfism, poor motor functions and speech. With no cure or even preventive vaccination available, many women in the most affected regions were reportedly considering postponing any planned pregnancies. The virus was actually discovered back in 1947 in Zika fo...
Source: World of Psychology - October 28, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Psych Central Staff Tags: Brain and Behavior Brain Blogger Health-related Publishers Research brain cancer Delivery glioblastoma Immune System microcephalia Pregnancy Sexual Contact stem cells Zika virus Source Type: blogs

Poor Quality Sleep: A Silent Source of Disability in Breast Cancer
The post below ran on Huffington Post Healthy Living on May 13. It is authored by Hrayr Attarian, MD, FACCP, FAASM, Member of the Society for Women’s Health Rearch Network on Sleep and Associate Professor of Neurology, Northwestern University, Circadian Rhythms and Sleep Research Lab for the Society for Women’s Health Interdisciplinary Network on Sleep. Poor quality sleep is a major contributor to reduced quality of life and can have a negative impact on mood and energy, cognition, metabolic and immunological function, as well as lead to weight gain [3]. Sleep-related complaints are quite common in women with b...
Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - July 14, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Cancer Source Type: blogs

Battling Cancer – and Losing My Mind
I have been trying to complete a blog for the past few weeks. My mind won’t focus, I am easily distracted and I have difficulty finding the words I want to use. The only thing I can attribute this to is chemo brain. In addition to the surreal aspect of being diagnosed and treated for advanced cancer, the impact of the treatment on my cognitive process makes me feel like I am dealing with a disability. The American Cancer Society quotes doctors as saying chemo brain is “mild cognitive impairment.” But the thought of returning to work as a registered nurse with this debilitating brain condition concerns me more than th...
Source: Life with Breast Cancer - April 16, 2014 Category: Cancer Authors: Kathy-Ellen Kups, RN Tags: Breast Cancer chemo brain chemo therapy metastatic breast cancer Source Type: blogs

What ’s it like to be a child and your sibling is diagnosed with cancer?
By Christian Jarrett When the dreadful news arrives that a child has cancer, understandably the focus of parents and health professionals turns to supporting the sick child as best they can. But also caught up in the nightmare are the child’s siblings. Not only will they likely be consumed by shock and fear, but they must adapt to the cancer journey the whole family has to embark on. Official health guidance here in the UK and in the USA states that it’s important to provide support to the siblings of children with cancer. Yet the reality is we know relatively little about their experience. A new study in Cli...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - September 14, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: researchdigestblog Tags: Cancer Health Positive psychology Qualitative Source Type: blogs

Narrative Matters: On Our Reading List
Editor's Note: “Narrative Matters: On Our Reading List” is a monthly roundup where we share some of the most compelling health care narratives driving the news and conversation in recent weeks. End Of A Journey For those who knew Paul Kalanithi or read about his medical journey, it was a sad month to say goodbye to the neurologist, whose battle with lung cancer was told in stages, as he came to terms with his fate and the disease that would soon overtake him. “Time for me is double-edged,” Kalanithi writes in his essay, “Before I Go,” published in the spring 2015 issue of Stanford Medicine. “Every day brings...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - April 21, 2015 Category: Health Management Authors: Rebecca Gale Tags: Featured Narrative Matters Cancer Mental Health patient experience Source Type: blogs

If PSA Tests Don't Impact Survival, Why Do Insurance Companies Do The Test Without Your Knowledge?
A discussion on Twitter caught the eyes of my colleagues yesterday, and raised a very interesting question: should insurance companies be allowed to do PSA testing to detect prostate cancer on men as a condition of getting insurance? What started the discussion was a blog post by a well-known and respected medical blogger who goes by the name "Skeptical Scalpel." In his blog he detailed the saga of a 56 year old man who had a pre-employment physical in order to be covered by his new company's health insurance plan. He was not informed that he was going to have a PSA test. It was just done as part of the process. No informe...
Source: Dr. Len's Cancer Blog - August 21, 2013 Category: Cancer Authors: Dr. Len Tags: Cancer Care Early detection Prostate Cancer Screening Survivors Treatment Source Type: blogs

Urgent care clinics just for cancer patients
It’s tough being a cancer patient. The illness is serious and sometimes fatal, treatments can have serious side effects, and the fatigue and stress can be overwhelming. It gets worse when patients end up in the emergency room where they are exposed to people who may be contagious and encounter medical staff who may not know how to address the special needs of an oncology patient. So I was heartened to read about urgent care centers specifically for cancer patients. Centers like the one at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas cater to the requirements of cancer patients. They provide same-day ap...
Source: Health Business Blog - May 2, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: dewe67 Tags: Economics Hospitals Patients cancer Source Type: blogs

Cancer Patients May Not Get The Rehab They Need: A Missed Opportunity To Consider
This blog post first appeared at: Curious Dr. George  Rehabilitation medicine is one of the best-kept secrets in healthcare. Although the specialty is as old as America’s Civil War, few people are familiar with its history and purpose. Born out of compassion for wounded soldiers in desperate need of societal re-entry and meaningful employment, “physical reconstruction” programs were developed to provide everything from adaptive equipment to family training, labor alternatives and psychological support for veterans. Physical medicine and rehabilitation (PM&R) then expanded to meet the needs of those injured in Wo...
Source: Better Health - April 5, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Dr. Val Jones Tags: Health Tips Opinion Cancer Rehab Oncology Physiatry PM&R Rehabilitating From Cancer Rehabilitation Medicine Source Type: blogs

If you have cancer , you may be eligible for Social Security Disability Benefits
There are two programs you may qualify for. These programs are known as 1) Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and 2) Supplemental Security Income (SSI). To qualify for either program, you must prove to the Social Security Administration that you suffer from a disabling condition that completely prevents you from performing any type of work activity whatsoever. Almost all cancers qualify. For a complete list of all conditions that qualify for disability, visit the SSA’s blue book: http://www.ssa.gov/disability/professionals/bluebook/ In order to prove your case, you need to submit as much medical proof as possibl...
Source: Dr.Kattlove's Cancer Blog - July 1, 2013 Category: Oncologists Source Type: blogs

Another T-Cell Advance Against Cancer
The technique of using engineered T cells against cancerous cells may be about to explode ever more than it has already. One of the hardest parts of getting this process scaled up has been the need to extract each patient's own T cells and reprogram them. But in a new report in Nature Biotechnology, a team at Sloan-Kettering shows that they can raise cells of this type from stem cells, which were themselves derived from T lymphocytes from another healthy donor. As The Scientist puts it: Sadelain’s team isolated T cells from the peripheral blood of a healthy female donor and reprogrammed them into stem cells. The researc...
Source: In the Pipeline - August 14, 2013 Category: Chemists Tags: Cancer Source Type: blogs

This is what it’s like to face recurrent cancer while going broke
I am one of many people today “living” with cancer. I want to focus on the impact cancer has on my personal finances, and this is probably true for any chronic illness, not just cancer. First, you often have to give up your job. While undergoing chemo, most of us don’t have the energy for a full time job. And if you do keep working, there are all the appointments, scans and second opinion consultations, which make having a regular job difficult. Not to mention the scanxiety, as it’s been called, which makes it hard to concentrate on anything besides your health. Many of us are relying on our savings...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - August 4, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Tags: Patient Cancer Source Type: blogs

The public diagnosis of cancer and how President Carter did it right
President Jimmy Carter has been diagnosed with metastatic melanoma. Recently, he gave a press conference where he discussed the history of his illness, his plans for treatment, and answered questions from the media. It was superb. Carter, now 90 years old, demonstrated an impressive understanding of his medical circumstance. As someone who thinks and writes on patient empowerment, here are my favorite moments: 1:52 — Carter explains that his liver abnormality was found via MRI, quickly correcting the word “cancer” to “growth, a tumor,” demonstrating his knowledge of the limitations of that modality. In the n...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - September 4, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Tags: Conditions Cancer Dermatology Source Type: blogs

The Combination Diagnosis
Presto, you were a healthy person, who in addition to going out for drinks and appetizers with friends on weekends, you also used to go to the gym, hike, bike, swim, blah, blah, blah. All sorts of activities. Then, the ball drops. Now you have cancer and another ailment which prevents you from doing much of everything.You read about those ' other ' cancer people, who took their athleticism to new heights after their cancer diagnosis. They climb not just mole hills, but Mounts Everest and Denali in the same month. They learn to stand on the big fat boards and pole their way across the Pacific. They boast about their return ...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - June 18, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: cancer diagnosis disability Source Type: blogs