September is Cancer Awareness Month for: Gynecologic cancer, Ovarian cancer, Leukemia and Lymphoma, Prostate cancer, and Thyroid cancer. Know the facts about each, and think about taking some of the suggested actions to support awareness. As the infographic shows–Cancer touches everyone.… Continue Reading
Even when still available, Thioridazine was anything but a first-line drug in treating psychosis or schizophrenia–and that was before it was withdrawn from the market. In the class of the first-generation or ‘typical’ antipsychotics, its main purpose was to treat… Continue Reading
Have you ever found an article so fabulous, new, and ground-breaking that you can’t wait to blog on it, and share with the entire blogosphere this knowledge it seems only you–for the moment–possess? Perhaps it’s the discovery you’ve always longed to… Continue Reading
The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live. ~Flora Whittemore We spend our lives making decisions that will impact the rest of our days on this earth. We pick a career, select a mate, decide to have… Continue Reading
I’m a yoga junkie. I practice every day, and never miss my class on Wednesday nights–ever. Had one of my children chosen a Wednesday night for their wedding, I just would have begged off from 7-8:30, manipulated my body into… Continue Reading
“A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking real money” ~attributed to Everett Dirksen Unfortunately for us, the phrase goes differently–and, in cancer research, we’re already talking about ‘real money.’ A retraction of a scientific paper on… Continue Reading
So back to Henrietta Lacks and her overly hardy–some say virulent–cervical cancer cells. You may recall from last post that Ms. Lacks’ cells, entitled HeLa, were taken without her permission, and without recompense to the family. They were nabbed by one Dr.… Continue Reading
Henrietta Lacks was young, poor, unassuming, African-American. From Virginia, she earned her living as a tobacco farmer, happily married, had five children, and died of cervical cancer at 31. But her story doesn’t end there. In pain and bleeding as the… Continue Reading
My youngest granddaughter is, according to her father, a Super-Spreader, a throwback to the days of SARS. When she gets a cold, it’s not enough to share it with her nanny, mother and father–rather, she magnanimously bestows it upon all… Continue Reading
My guess is that, as he spent his days in second and third grade as all elementary students do–gazing out the window, learning a bit, chewing up pencils at the electric pencil sharpener, beginning to learn cursive just so they… Continue Reading
“A clown is like an aspirin, only he works twice as fast.” ~Groucho Marx In a family of total characters and would-be comedians, I can find it hard to hold my own in the humor department. When the rest of the… Continue Reading
Ever feel the need to come to a place where you could find out answer to your questions about the most common types of cancer, your queries if animals can accurately assess those who have the disease, your wonderings about the… Continue Reading
