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Talking About Cancer, Or Not
I have a lot of friends these days who have had cancer. And then I have friends who have not had cancer but sometimes we still talk about cancer or my health. But then I have friends who do not have cancer or any big ailments and don ' t really know about the disasters of my health so we talk about other things. Like life.Recently, through the wonders of social media, I reconnected with two old friends from high school who I hadn ' t seen in decades. I have sort of told them about all my health issues. But definitely not all of them. I have gotten together with one or both of them a few times.I got together with the one wh...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - December 13, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: cancer awareness quality of life Source Type: blogs

Managing That Sleep Thing
Yesterday I got to my last craft show of the season. I got set up and then sat down in my booth to regroup before the show started. I was nice and warm and I started to fall asleep. At 9 o ' clock in the morning. In front of hundreds of people. Several times during the day, I had to get up and walk around (and steal fudge samples from the booth next to me for the caffeine) to stay awake.Why do I get so tired? One of the many reasons is the fatigue caused by my fibromyalgia (and its insomnia) and rheumatoid, to a lesser degree. It also turns out I have been diagnosed with sleep apnea which causes me not to sleep very well. ...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - December 4, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: apnea fatigue lack of sleep Source Type: blogs

The complexity of the white coat
I remembered staring at the computer screen with the radiologist hoping that by staring at the images, they would change in some way. It did not seem fair that a nice lady that I was evaluating in the emergency room would be consigned to such tragic images. I was rotating through the emergency room during my second year of residency, and one of the patients had come in just for a cough, and part of her evaluation consisted of a CT scan of her chest. As one of my assigned patients, I was responsible for evaluating things from her lab reports to her imaging, and then informing her of any important findings. While I was talki...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 3, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/chiduzie-madubata" rel="tag" > Chiduzie Madubata, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Cancer Source Type: blogs

The Amazing Future of Dentistry and Oral Health
Amazing new technologies such as virtual or augmented reality, 3D-printing or CRISPR will revolutionize dentistry and our whole attitude towards oral health in the future. Let’s look at the top 8 digital technologies. One of the most common childhood nightmares is going to the dentist. Who would not understand it? You have to sit in a huge chair illuminated by all-seeing light. You have to endure that someone looks inside and pokes around in your mouth using edgy and frightening devices. And finally, when the torture is over, that same someone tells you not to eat your favorite sweets and brush your teeth regularly. Grr....
Source: The Medical Futurist - November 24, 2016 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Future of Medicine 3d printing augmented reality CRISPR dentistry digital GC1 genomics Healthcare oral health technology virtual reality Source Type: blogs

Its A Miracle
I have been running around like a crazy person for the last few days, and will continue to over do things all through the long holiday weekend with three days of four house guests, hosting the big dinner, and then two craft shows over the weekend.Although I was completely exhausted by yesterday afternoon, I noticed a lack of noticeable amounts of pain. I was so tired I couldn ' t stay awake after dinner - in bed before 8 (and feeling no shame about it). I went to bed, did wake up for an hour or so, but feel rested this morning. I hope to take a significant nap this afternoon as well.But pain? I have been doing pretty well....
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - November 22, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: fatigue miracles naps pain levels Source Type: blogs

Tips for a Successful Internship at LIVESTRONG
Mariah is a fall public relations and external affairs intern at the LIVESTRONG Foundation in Austin working with the public relations team and various other facets of the external affairs department. She will graduate in the spring with a Bachelor of Science in Public Relations and Mass Communication from Texas State University.As a public relations undergrad, I have spent most of my college career interning with for-profit PR firms in and around Austin. As I patiently searched the web for open positions that fit my criteria for a fall internship this summer, I knew I wanted to find a position that would offer me a work e...
Source: LIVESTRONG Blog - November 21, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Guest Source Type: blogs

Propaganda for Death and Aging is Everywhere
We all live in societies in which near every formative story and teaching glorifies the process of aging to death. The foundations of our myths paint death through aging as an essential, good thing. This is the natural outcome of thousands of years of creative human culture in which nothing could be done about aging. People came to terms with it by building tools - stories, myths, coping mechanisms - to enable psychological comfort in the face of the horrible and the inevitable. The best of these tools prospered because they allowed the societies that used them to prosper, and so we have today what has been termed the "pro...
Source: Fight Aging! - November 7, 2016 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Daily News Source Type: blogs

Bump
Sunday morning is special around here. We used to get the paper daily but now just don ' t have time to read it. So the Sunday paper is special. I get to spread it out and read as much as I want. We also tend to make a nice breakfast to eat together.But this Sunday was a bit different. I was still in my pajamas and barefoot and headed back to our room to get something. As I stepped into our room and stepped on a piece of tulle from one of my craft projects. That was a bit slippery and my feet went one way and I went the other.The resulting damage was from the fact that I landed on my hip, elbow, knee, and shoulder.... I to...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - November 1, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: falls resting Source Type: blogs

Robert Herjavec on Improving Cancer Care, Healthcare IT Security, Innovation, and Investment
Last weekend we attended the Stanford Medicine X conference that brought together a variety of people involved in every aspect of health care. Even a few investors were present, but none more famous than Robert Herjavec. He’s the “nice gu...
Source: Medgadget - September 23, 2016 Category: Medical Equipment Authors: Editors Tags: Exclusive Source Type: blogs

Lymphedema and the lymph system
So as an extra gift with breast cancer, I have lymphedema in my left arm. I am very coordinated and fell on our icy front walk and landed on my hand. My arm swelled up and voila, I have lymphedema. I have a ' lovely ' , ' skin tone ' sleeve that I get to wear sometimes. It even provides some sun protection so I get a tan line on my wrist.So what is the lymph system? I had no idea until I fell that day. I sometimes try to find more information on the lymph system.First of all what is lymph? That clear fluid that seeps out of blisters and cuts sometimes. Its the other system in your body like your blood system but it has whi...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - September 21, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: breast cancer lymph nodes lymphedema Source Type: blogs

In Shock
We moved to our new neighborhood last January. January in New England is not a time when people are outside much (unless they are playing in the snow somewhere). People are not outside in their yards and being social. All socializing is inside.We met one family of neighbors a few weeks afterwards because we were outside dealing with snow and ice. We then met more neighbors as the weather got warmer. Because of the street ' s turns, we have one neighbor directly across the street and one next door. Everyone else is around a corner someplace. I met the neighbor across the street, B, in April or so. We talked gardening. She w...
Source: Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog - September 20, 2016 Category: Cancer & Oncology Tags: cancer death Source Type: blogs

How To Think About Health Technology Assessment: A Response To Goldman And Coauthors
From 3,000 miles away—on the other side of the Atlantic and more precisely from England—it is hard not to sense a note of frustration in the Health Affairs Blog post by Dana Goldman, Sam Nussbaum, and Mark Linthicum: “We need health technology assessment. Only we can’t have it. Because we are us. But we need it. But we can’t have it. So what do we do?” It is also hard not to offer sympathy, not least because every country that has what the three authors dub “full” health technology assessment (also referred to here as “HTA”) finds it endlessly controversial. But at least some of the dilemma that...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - September 15, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Nicholas Timmins Tags: Costs and Spending Drugs and Medical Innovation Featured Health IT Europe health technology assessment National Health Service Source Type: blogs

Rapid Biomedical Innovation Calls For Similar Innovation In Pricing And Value Measurement
Advances in foundational science, technology, and clinical knowledge are driving a revolution in patient care. Minimally invasive surgery has reduced rates of post-surgical complications, reduced hospitalization, and dramatically accelerated recovery; direct-acting antivirals have brought a cure for hepatitis C; and novel immunotherapies have brought the promise of increased survival to late-stage cancer patients. The list goes on. At the same time, spending on these innovative drugs and devices has increased dramatically. Between 1980 and 2010, overall personal health care expenditures in the US grew nearly four-fold, dri...
Source: Health Affairs Blog - September 15, 2016 Category: Health Management Authors: Dana Goldman, Samuel Nussbaum and Mark Linthicum Tags: Drugs and Medical Innovation Featured Comparative Effectiveness health technology assessment National Health Service National Institute for Health and Care Excellence PCORI Source Type: blogs

Mockingbird #1: Medical Annotations
I hope everyone has been reading Mockingbird, which recently finished its first storyline. It’s a fun comic featuring an enjoyable character, good writing, and great art. Since much of the first story takes place in a SHIELD medical clinic — and since Bobbi keeps reminding us she has a doctorate in biology — I thought the series was ripe for some elucidating medical annotations. Since I don’t want this post to drag on forever, I’m going to break the storyline down into three separate posts. This first one will just deal with the first issue. Mockingbird #1 Chelsea Cain, writer Kate Niemczyk, a...
Source: Polite Dissent - September 12, 2016 Category: Primary Care Authors: Scott Tags: newtag Source Type: blogs

5 Hidden Benefits of a Good Massage
Aside from the fact that a good massage makes you feel better, what are some of the other benefits to this practice? As a longtime advocate for massage, I decided to delve into its not-as-well-known aspects to see what else it offers beside a well-spent hour on the table. What I discovered are the following five hidden benefits of a good massage. Massage loosens muscles Being in physical therapy for a recent low back pain episode means I’m working muscles that have not seen regular activity for some time. That results in soreness that proves I’m doing things right, but it’s also a little uncomfortable.While the ther...
Source: World of Psychology - September 11, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Suzanne Kane Tags: General Health-related Personal Treatment back pain Immune System Low back pain Lymph Lymph node Lymphatic system Massage Physical Therapy shiatsu Source Type: blogs