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Breaking Bad: the antihero ’ s journey through cancer
An excerpt from From Whispers to Shouts: The Ways We Talk About Cancer. “Walt, is that you?” Skyler asks her husband in the final scene of the Breaking Bad pilot. They’re in bed, she’s pregnant, and he’s come toward her in a new way. He’s changed, and she doesn’t yet know why. In this acclaimed Read more… Breaking Bad: the antihero’s journey through cancer originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - April 2, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Physician Oncology/Hematology Source Type: blogs

The beauty of a patient ’ s gratitude
This is not an ordinary 1000 Rupee note. It’s a happy memory for me. For those who say I always share depressing stories, this one is for you, for a change. We performed concurrent chemotherapy and radiation on a 70-year-old lady with nasopharyngeal carcinoma a few months back. She was elderly and frail, and she Read more… The beauty of a patient’s gratitude originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 30, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Conditions Oncology/Hematology Source Type: blogs

The heart of a Desi doctor: Balancing emotions and resources in oncology
I am a Desi doctor, where Desi refers to someone from India, Pakistan, or Bangladesh. I am currently a final-year resident in radiation oncology at a private-sector hospital in Pakistan. During my medical school and house job, I worked in a public sector hospital where I experienced a high patient influx, a heavy workload, and Read more… The heart of a Desi doctor: Balancing emotions and resources in oncology originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 29, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Physician Oncology/Hematology Source Type: blogs

Surviving clinical rounds: tips and tales from a pediatric hematologist-oncologist [PODCAST]
Subscribe to The Podcast by KevinMD. Catch up on old episodes! Today’s guest is Maha Al-Ghafry, a pediatric hematologist-oncologist who shares her experience with clinical rounds. As health care professionals, we know the struggle of clinical rounds, where you receive patient handoffs, pre-round on EHR, physically pre-round on patients, and then move onto some form Read more… Surviving clinical rounds: tips and tales from a pediatric hematologist-oncologist [PODCAST] originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 27, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Podcast Hospital-Based Medicine Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, March 27th 2023
This study has potentially significant implications in the field of OA as it provides a novel strategy for OA treatment. A Vicious Cycle of Heart Failure and Dementia https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2023/03/a-vicious-cycle-of-heart-failure-and-dementia/ The end of life is not pretty. The body is a failing machine of many complex essential parts, and the failures cascade and feed into one another as it breaks down. There is pain, loss of capacity, loss of the self as the brain runs down. There is a tendency to paper over the ugly reality in public discussion, to not talk about the facts of the matter...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 26, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

5 essential tips to help men prevent prostate cancer
1. Eat a healthy diet rich in fruits, vegetables, and whole grains. Eating a healthy diet is an important way to help prevent prostate cancer. Fruits and vegetables are packed with antioxidants, which can help protect your cells from damage that can lead to cancer. Fruits and vegetables that are particularly beneficial for prostate cancer Read more… 5 essential tips to help men prevent prostate cancer originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 23, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Conditions Oncology/Hematology Urology Source Type: blogs

Finding peace through surrender: a personal exploration
Words are everything. They carry energy. They are the currency of our connection to each other. They are the currency through which we will share with future generations; they are how we communicate with people in generations past. And they carry weight in terms of how we speak to ourselves. When we begin to grow Read more… Finding peace through surrender: a personal exploration originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 21, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Physician Oncology/Hematology Palliative Care Source Type: blogs

Towards a Better Understanding of Clonal Hematopoiesis of Indeterminate Potential
Somatic mosaicism arises from random mutational damage to stem cells and progenitor cells. Daughter somatic cells resulting from mutated cells also bear these mutations, and so a pattern of differently mutated somatic cell populations spreads throughout a tissue over years and decades. This is thought to be a mechanism by which nuclear DNA damage can give rise to some meaningful degree of dysfunction beyond cancer risk. Otherwise, one must accept that near all mutations (a) affect few cells, as somatic cells are limited in their ability to replicate, and (b) occur in cells that will be destroyed on some timescale, as they ...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 20, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs

The patient who became my soulmate
As oncologists, we encounter numerous patients on a daily basis and form emotional bonds with many of them, especially if they survive long enough and continue to see the same doctor for several years. This bond can grow so deep that we feel their pain, cry with them, and sometimes even realize that some of Read more… The patient who became my soulmate originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 19, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Physician Oncology/Hematology Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, March 20th 2023
This study also provides the potential for de novo generation of complex organs in vivo. T Cells May Play a Role in the Brain Inflammation Characteristic of Neurodegenerative Conditions https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2023/03/t-cells-may-play-a-role-in-the-brain-inflammation-characteristic-of-neurodegenerative-conditions/ Alzheimer's disease, and other forms of neurodegenerative condition, are characterized by chronic inflammation in brain tissue. Unresolved inflammatory signaling is disruptive of tissue structure and function. Here, researchers provide evidence for T cells to become involved in thi...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 19, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs

Reprogramming Tumor Cells into Antigen-Presenting Cells
Today's research materials describe a clever approach to cancer immunotherapy, focused on the goal of enabling the immune system to better identify cancerous cells. In the past, researchers have made some inroads in training the immune system to attack specific target molecules characteristic of cancerous cells, but this is a slow and expensive process when progressing from single target to single target. Further, any given cancer might be capable of evolving to function without exhibiting any one specific target molecule, and only some cancers of a particular type will exhibit that specific signature molecule to start wit...
Source: Fight Aging! - March 13, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs

From cancer survivor to thriving mind: a journey to true healing and purpose
“I own the world!” was my exact thought when my doctors entered my bone-marrow transplant unit and said I was cancer-free! That joyous moment lasted a few seconds because they immediately declared, “Be careful, you have a 30 percent chance of recurrence from the same cancer and X percent chance of XYZ …” I don’t Read more… From cancer survivor to thriving mind: a journey to true healing and purpose originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - March 5, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Physician Oncology/Hematology Source Type: blogs

Biosimilars have saved patients billions of dollars and are changing the treatment landscape. Here ’ s how.
This article is sponsored by Sandoz, a Novartis division, and global leader in generic pharmaceuticals and biosimilars. When I started working in the health care industry over 25 years ago, I was compelled by a passion to make a difference and improve the lives of those around me. Ultimately, that mission brought me to Sandoz, Read more… Biosimilars have saved patients billions of dollars and are changing the treatment landscape. Here’s how. originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 22, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors:

The regret of leaving an old friend behind
I once knew a lady who eventually died from pancreatic cancer. She was in her early seventies at the time. Her name was Marilyn, and I went to grade school with her son Tom, so we had known each other for a long time. I was in my early thirties when the events happened. Marilyn’s Read more… The regret of leaving an old friend behind originally appeared in KevinMD.com. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - February 19, 2023 Category: General Medicine Authors: Tags: Conditions Oncology/Hematology Source Type: blogs

Fight Aging! Newsletter, February 20th 2023
In this study, researchers stimulate the ghrelin receptor using a suitable small molecule for much of the lifespan of mice, and observe the results. The overall extension of life span is a quarter of that produced by calorie restriction, and so we might draw some conclusions from that as to the relative importance of hunger in the benefits resulting from the practice of calorie restriction or fasting. Interestingly, the short term weight gains observed in mice given this ghrelin receptor agonist in the past don't appear in this long term study, in which the controls are the heaver animals. This is possibly because the rese...
Source: Fight Aging! - February 19, 2023 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Newsletters Source Type: blogs