On The Pulse - 20th June 2014
No benefits from surgical resection in mesothelioma (Source: OnMedica Blogs)
Source: OnMedica Blogs - June 20, 2014 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: blogs
not just about breast cancer
Today's post is a guest post from the Mesothelioma Cancer Alliance. This is the first guest post ever on this blog but I wanted to share this issue and felt it would be best if someone from MCA explained the issue in their own words.Here are some facts provided by Cameron Von St. James, whose wife Heather is a mesothelioma survivor. Note that while Cameron is in the US and writes about that country, asbestos is not banned in Canada, either (Update: This is the June 16 editorial from the Globe and Mail: "Ottawa's sunny outlook on asbestos is out of step with the facts."). In fact, Canada's Mesothelioma Center says our count...
Source: Not just about cancer - June 16, 2014 Category: Cancer Tags: cancer blog community preventing cancer show and tell Source Type: blogs
Baron and Budd Announces $177 Million Settlement for Seven States Against Avandia Manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline
DALLAS, Jun 13, 2014 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- The national law firm of Baron and Budd has reached a $177 million settlement with GlaxoSmithKline on behalf of the states of Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, New Mexico, South Carolina, Utah and West Virginia regarding the deceptive advertising of the diabetes drug Avandia. This result represents the largest settlement of a pharmaceutical case ever for several of the involved states, and a much higher settlement for each individual state than what they would otherwise have received in a multistate settlement reached in 2012. Baron and Budd attorneys Russell Budd, Burton LeBlanc, Lau...
Source: PharmaGossip - June 13, 2014 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: insider Source Type: blogs
May is National Cancer Research Month – Check Out Heather’s Story
In honor of National Cancer Research Month, I wanted to share with you “Heather’s Story”.
Heather was just 36 when she was diagnosed with mesothelioma and given 15 months to live. She had just given birth to her first–and only daughter–just 3 1/2 months before the diagnosis. With a new baby in her arms, she was given the grim prognosis of just 15 months to live. Miraculously, she beat the odds and she is still here 8 years later.
Mesothelioma is one of the most aggressive and deadly cancers–and people are usually just given one year to live after they are diagnosed. There is no known cur...
Source: Octopus Mom - May 5, 2014 Category: Nurses Authors: Ferrar Copywriters Source Type: blogs
Is Commerce Controlling Our Attention and Thinking?
I was just glancing over some Web stats regarding page views and advertising revenues and the thought occurred to me that, on the Web at least, our attention and thinking is being distorted in the direction of buyable stuff. Here's my simple reasoning, backed by some stats.1. Web content creators in many cases are interested in monetizing their sites.2. The way to make money on a site is to display advertisements.3. The ads displayed are often linked to the content of the page.4. People click on ads that offer things of interest, which are often tangible products.5. The bigger ticket the tangible product, the more the clic...
Source: The Virtual Salt - April 25, 2014 Category: Mental Illness Authors: Robert Harris Source Type: blogs
Novel “Jantibody Fusion Protein” Cancer Vaccine Holds Promise Against Ovarian Cancer
A novel approach to cancer immunotherapy – strategies designed to induce the immune system to attack cancer cells – may provide a new and cost-effective weapon against some of the most deadly tumors, including ovarian cancer and mesothelioma. A novel approach to cancer immunotherapy – strategies designed to induce the immune system to attack cancer […] (Source: Libby's H*O*P*E*)
Source: Libby's H*O*P*E* - March 8, 2014 Category: Cancer Authors: Paul Cacciatore Tags: Discoveries Immunotherapy Preclinical Testing Vaccines cancer vaccine dendritic cell Harvard Medical School Jantibody fusion protein Jeff Gelfand M.D. Mark Poznansky M.D. Ph.D. Massachusetts General Hospital mesothelin MGH Vaccine Source Type: blogs
Affordable Health Insurance for Individuals
Do You Need Reasonably priced Individual Health insurance? Consumers is capable of significant cost savings by simply picking a policy which allows them to pay out more out-of-pocket costs This typically means having to pay a yearly allowable as well as co-payments with regard to services as well as prescription medications. Before getting his legislation degree, he or she spent years as an effective business owner, supervisor, and sales rep. A recent study of neighborhood behavioral well-being organizations found out that on average, Per-cent of repayment for providers came from personal insurers. You realize...
Source: DoctorMental - December 15, 2013 Category: Internists and Doctors of Medicine Tags: Affordable Health Insurance for Individuals Source Type: blogs
Moms, Aunts and Grandmas are Picking up the Phone
Today thousands of people are coming together to make a call. They won’t be calling their partner, doctor or friends. They’re calling Congress.
If you just rolled your eyes at the thought of calling Congress, stay with me for a minute, this will be fun. I promise.
I work with people, perhaps just like you, from all over the country that are concerned about unregulated toxic chemicals ending up in our homes, products, children’s bodies, and the places we work and live.
Most of the grassroots members of Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families don’t consider themselves “political” and yet they are calling Congress for t...
Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - December 9, 2013 Category: Pediatricians Authors: Lindsay Dahl Tags: Perspectives Environmental Health Safety Source Type: blogs
Author’s Debut is a Tough, Lyrical Addiction Memoir
"If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going." –Prof. Irwin CoreyI’ve never made a secret of the fact that I don’t really like addiction memoirs—with notable literary exceptions, from Thomas de Quincey to William S. Burroughs, including worthy modern efforts from James Brown, Jerry Stahl, Sacha Z. Scoblic, and others. Writing well about addiction is a rare gift, and newcomer Jessica Hendry Nelson, in If Only You People Could Follow Directions: A Memoir, comes at the problem elliptically, in some cases deliberately pruned of strong emotion. This works in her favor, as she eschews over-the-...
Source: Addiction Inbox - November 14, 2013 Category: Addiction Authors: Dirk Hanson Source Type: blogs
Fear Less
I started this experiment in fear facing over a month ago and today when I am facing writer’s block on writing about fear, it is partially because I’m not scared of much right now. So, mission accomplished?? I’ll let you know. I don’t know the half-life of my fear-facing batteries.
There are still things I am scared of like car mechanics, and hospital food, and older carpeting, but I’ve faced some of the biggest fears in the last month. So, the hardest work is done.
Get Started with One
I’m hoping you can do this. Start with a list of the things you are scared of—even the ridiculous ones (like lipstick). You ...
Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - November 8, 2013 Category: Pediatricians Authors: Celia Sepulveda Tags: Perspectives Mental Health Source Type: blogs
Presto Chango - UPMC Tries to Make its Employees All Disappear
ConclusionI hope that the outlandish claims now being sanctioned by UPMC leadership may raise awareness of what is going wrong with the leadership of health care organizations in general. As we have been saying for years, health care leadership that puts its self-interest ahead of patients and the public, and which disregards the truth in service of self-interest may be the biggest cause for ever increasing health care costs, and ever declining access and regard for the health of patients and the public. True health care reform would encourage leadership that puts the mission ahead of self-interest, and values ...
Source: Health Care Renewal - October 29, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: deception non-profit organizations UPMC Source Type: blogs
Pfizer's Umpteenth Settlement (for $491 Million Plus a Guilty Plea), but No Person Held Responsible
The world's largest research based pharmaceutical company was in court again, as reported by the New York Times, The drug maker Pfizer agreed to pay $491 million to settle criminal and civil charges over the illegal marketing of the kidney-transplant drug Rapamune, the Justice Department announced on Tuesday. In particular, The recent case centers on the practices of Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, which Pfizer acquired in 2009.Rapamune, which prevents the body’s immune system from rejecting a transplanted organ, was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 1999 for use in patients receiving a kidney tra...
Source: Health Care Renewal - July 31, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Tags: Wyeth impunity crime marketing Pfizer whistle-blowers legal settlements Source Type: blogs
