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The Good Breast Cancer Charities
As you are asked to ' pink ' all through October, you are advised to give to the good charities and skip the pink crap.Charities are rated by Charity Navigator and Charity Watch. These two organizations list the following as the ' good ' ones to give to:Charity WatchBreast Cancer Research Foundation - a grade of A+, 90% of their funds go to programs (not overhead), and it costs them $7 to raise $100.National Breast Cancer Coalition Fund - A, 83%, $13Breast Cancer Prevention Partners (Formerly Breast Cancer Fund) - A-, 77%, $13Also recommended:Cancer Research InstituteMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer CenterPrevent Cance...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - October 16, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: donating organization pinkification Source Type: blogs

Hormonal treatments for prostate cancer may prevent or limit COVID-19 symptoms
Men have roughly twice the risk of developing severe disease and dying from COVID-19 than women. Scientists say this is in part because women mount stronger immune reactions to the disease’s microbial cause: the infamous coronavirus called SARS-CoV-2. Now research with prostate cancer patients points to another possible explanation, which is that the male sex hormone testosterone helps SARS-Cov-2 get into and infect human cells. SARS-CoV-2 initiates infections by first latching onto its human cell receptor. But it can only pass into a cell with the aid of a second protein called TMPRSS2. Testosterone regulates TMPRSS...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - September 10, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Charlie Schmidt Tags: Living With Prostate Cancer Prostate Knowledge Treatments HPK Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, January 28th 2019
In this study, we show that calorie restriction is protective against age-related increases in senescence and microglia activation and pro-inflammatory cytokine expression in an animal model of aging. Further, these protective effects mitigated age-related decline in neuroblast and neuronal production, and enhanced olfactory memory performance, a behavioral index of neurogenesis in the SVZ. Our results support the concept that calorie restriction might be an effective anti-aging intervention in the context of healthy brain aging. Greater Modest Activity in Late Life Correlates with Lower Incidence of Dementia ...
Source: Fight Aging! - January 27, 2019 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

Nanotechnology Will Break The Curse Running Through Generations
A fictional tale about the healing power of technology The mutation of the CDH1 gene determines the fate of generations of men in a Czech small town. The great-grandfather dies unexpectedly upon returning home from the trenches of the first World War – he survives the bullets of the Italian front but gives in after a pint of beer and schnitzel. The grandfather was already diagnosed with an illness, gastric cancer, which required the removal of his entire stomach – but his life couldn’t be saved either. His son was luckier, he was diagnosed in time with an early stage hereditary diffuse gastric cancer and had e...
Source: The Medical Futurist - March 23, 2019 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Medical Science Fiction Nanotechnology in Medicine cancer generation genetic disorder genetics Innovation sci-fi Surgery Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, May 17th 2021
This study is consistent with previous evidence showing that inflammaging, or age-related inflammation, is naturally heightened in the nervous system. Moreover, the authors disproved their hypothesis that anti-inflammatory microglia-specific genes are responsible for the elevated inflammatory response in aged brains since the expression of anti-inflammatory mediators was elevated in middle-aged brains following infection. Thus, the cause for the increase in pro-inflammatory genes remains to be elucidated. Mixed Results in Animal Studies of Gene Therapy Targeting Axonal Regrowth https://www.fightaging.org/archiv...
Source: Fight Aging! - May 16, 2021 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

The Top 10 Health Chatbots
This study from March 2023 reports how an app developed to help patients’ bowel preparation can increase compliance and thus, the number of successful colonoscopies. In some cases, health chatbots are also able to connect patients with clinicians for diagnosis or treatment, but that is one step further down the line. The general idea is that in the future, these talking or texting smart algorithms might become the first contact point for primary care. Patients will not get in touch with physicians or nurses or any medical professional with every one of their health questions but will turn to chatbots first. If th...
Source: The Medical Futurist - August 1, 2023 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Future of Medicine Healthcare Design List medical Personalized medicine AI technology chatbot digital health chatbots health chatbot Innovation Source Type: blogs

Arts Improve Quality of life for Stroke Survivors and People with Alzheimer's
Photo credit Crystal de Pasille Chabot "Patients who appreciated music, painting and theatre recovered better from their stroke than patients who did not"Patients interested in art had better general health, found it easier to walk, and had more energy. They were also happier, less anxious or depressed, and felt calmer. They had better memory and were superior communicators (speaking with other people, understanding what people said, naming people and objects correctly)." Read more on HealthCentral about how the arts can improve quality of life for stroke survivors: Minding Our Elders: Caregivers Share Their Personal Stori...
Source: Minding Our Elders - March 28, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs

Arts Improve Quality of life for Stroke Survivors and People with Alzheimer ' s
Photo credit Elina Sazonova ...An article about the study on Eurekalert also reports that "researchers have shown that listening to" music directly stimulates a feeling of pleasure by releasing dopamine in the brain." These results shed light on the importance of lifelong exposure to art for improving the recovery process after a stroke. Introducing art into nursing care after a stroke could help improve stroke survivors' quality of life. Theater has also been used as a type of therapy for people with Alzheimer's disease. NPR reported on an outreach program at the Lookingglass Theater in Chicago that offers people with A...
Source: Minding Our Elders - November 3, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs

Bladder Cancer: Incontinence Can Be a Side Effect
Bladder cancer isn’t a common condition, but the American Cancer Society estimates that there will be 83,730 new cases of bladder cancer (about 64,280 in men and 19,450 in women) and about 17,200 deaths from bladder cancer (about 12,260 in men and 4,940 in women) in 2021. That isn’t something to ignore, either. Bladder cancer tends to occur in older people with about nine out of 10 people who develop this cancer being over the age of 55. The average age of people when they are diagnosed is 73. Though each person's risk of developing the cancer is individual, it will affect approximately one in 27 men and one in 8...
Source: Minding Our Elders - May 2, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs

Microbial Signature for Colorectal Cancer Identified Using Machine Learning
Researchers from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, the University of Trento in Italy, and other international collaborators leveraged a machine learning algorithm to identify a subset of gut bacteria associated ...
Source: Medgadget - April 17, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Siavash Parkhideh Tags: Genetics GI Informatics Oncology Pathology Source Type: blogs

My Most Favoritest Person in the Whole Wide World, My Auntie Judy
Thursday, October 17, 2019Current Mood:  SadI wrote this letter to my Auntie Judy shortly after she passed back on February 1st of this year .  I haven ' t really shared it with too many people but I thought since it was Breast Cancer Awareness Month it was the perfect way to honor an amazing woman who was sadly taken by this horrific disease.  Dear Auntie Judy,You were my “My Favoritest Person in the Whole Wide World.”  Every child should be blessed to have such an amazing Auntie in their life. I remember my Mom telling me a story... We were over your house in Granby and I ’m ...
Source: Sharing My Cancer Crapness - October 17, 2019 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: blogs

The Complicated Prostate: Cancer Is a Concern but There ' s More to Consider
Most younger men don’t spend a lot of time considering the health of their prostate. However, around the age of 50, they’ll likely find that their physicians want to check out prostate health both physically and through blood work known as a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test. The PSA is not a perfect test, but it’s still used to help detect prostate cancer since there aren’t many alternatives. National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month is meant to increase the knowledge about possible prostate problems and make certain that men get checked out regularly. What is the prostate? The prostate is a small organ locat...
Source: Minding Our Elders - September 7, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs

“ Gut bacteria ‘ boost ’ cancer therapy ”
That’s the title of a very interesting BBC News article I read this morning, thanks to my friend Paul: goo.gl/pkXS1J It’s about two recent studies that examined patients with cancer (1. lung or kidney; 2. melanoma), discovering that those who had a lot of “friendly” gut bacteria responded better to immunotherapy. Excerpt: Dr Jennifer Wargo, from Texas, told the BBC: “If you disrupt a patient’s microbiome you may impair their ability to respond to cancer treatment.” Okay, so the patients in the two studies didn’t have myeloma. But I would bet anything that those three types o...
Source: Margaret's Corner - November 4, 2017 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Margaret Tags: Blogroll BBC News Clostridium difficile gut bacteria microbiome probiotics SCT Source Type: blogs

With Bladder Cancer Treatment the Risk of Incontinence Increases
Older adults are more prone to bladder cancer with about nine out of 10 people who develop this cancer being over the age of 55 with the average age of people when they are diagnosed 73.  While individuals vary greatly, the disease will affect approximately one in 27 men and one in 89 women.  Continue to read on Egosancares blog about bladder cancer and how treatment might affect continence issues: Minding Our Elders: Caregivers Share Their Personal Stories.“I hold onto your book as a life preserver and am reading it slowly on purpose...I don't want it to end.” ...Craig William Dayton, Film Composer R...
Source: Minding Our Elders - April 4, 2022 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Carol Bradley Bursack Source Type: blogs