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Surfing the medical muddle
Special to the SunWhen James Anderson was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1993, he turned to his daughter, a nurse practitioner, for help. "She came home with a cardboard box full of everything imaginable," said Anderson, a retired Air Force colonel from LaPlata. "She...Tags: Networking, Health and Safety at School, Computer Networking and Internet, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Health and Medical Professionals
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Pfizer halts study of lymphoma drug unlikely to help survival
ReutersMay 20 (Reuters) - Pfizer Inc, which has been on a hot streak with three recent approvals of cancer drugs, stumbled on Monday, saying it was halting a late-stage trial of a drug for aggressive non-Hodgkin lymphoma after independent monitors found it was...Tags: Health Treatments, Biotechnology, Food and Drug Administration, Hodgkin's Lymphoma, Leukemia
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Health Technology Park In Connecticut Could Create Thousands Of Jobs
The Hartford CourantA $368 million health technology park — anchored by a cancer treatment center — could create as many as 2,500 jobs to north central Connecticut in the next five years, the project's developers say. The developers of ProTech Park said they...Tags: Medical Specialization, Research and Development, Massachusetts General Hospital, Technology, Hospitals and Clinics
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Does prostate cancer treatment help older, sick men?
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Older men with other illnesses may not live long enough to benefit from aggressive prostate cancer treatments, such as prostate removal or radiation, and they'd have to live with their side effects, says a new study. "If you'...Tags: Heart Problems, Death, Stroke, Medical Specialization, Diseases and Illnesses
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El Paso cancer patient is glad Angelina Jolie raised awareness of double mastectomy
El Paso Times, TexasEl Pasoan Alice Chavez knows what it's like to be Angelina Jolie. At least when it comes to her health. Like, Jolie, Chavez has undergone a double mastectomy. She had cancer in her left breast, and a risk of cancer in the still-healthy one. "In...Tags: The New York Times, Celebrities, Ovarian Cancer, Plastic Surgery, Medical Specialization
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Mother, daughter reflect on their experiences with cancer-causing gene mutation
The Daily Times, Farmington, N.M.For More Information Those interested in more information about the BRCA mutation can contact the San Juan Regional Medical Center's Cancer Navigator at 505-609-6259. Additional information about support and resources available to those diagnosed with...Tags: Breast Reconstruction, Ovarian Cancer, Diseases and Illnesses, Medical Procedures and Tests, Endometriosis
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Clermont location is Goodwill Industries of Central Florida's first 'American-made' retail store
Goodwill Industries of Central Florida has opened its first "American-made" retail store and Job Connection Center at 1855 S. Grand Highway, Clermont. Completed in partnership with Winter Park-based Williams Company, roughly 98 percent of the...
Tags: Healthcare Provider, Women's Health, Medical Specialization, Leesburg, University of Georgia
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Supporters, Survivors Rally at Relay for Life
The Chronicle, Centralia, Wash.More than 44 teams set up tents at the Southwest Washington Fairgrounds Friday afternoon to participate in the 2013 Relay for Life of Lewis County, which is scheduled to continue through 4 p.m. today. Faye Mullins, of Onalaska, started a team last...Tags: Relay for Life, Medical Specialization
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Surgeon and patient: Jolie decision right
The Dominion Post, Morgantown, W.Va.WVU Hospitals Interim Chief of Surgical Oncology Hannah Hazard said a double mastectomy is something doctors counsel patients to undergo if they have the same genetic trait that led actress Angelina Jolie to undergo the procedure. Hazard performs...Tags: Vaccines, Angelina Jolie, Ovarian Cancer, Women's Health, Breast Cancer
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Budget cuts limit cancer treatment options
The Dayton Daily NewsCancer clinics across southwest Ohio are struggling to provide drug therapies for many of their patients as a result of Medicare cuts in reimbursements for cancer drugs included in the government's spending cuts known as sequestration. The 2 percent cut...Tags: Healthcare Provider, Medical Specialization, Hospitals and Clinics, Medical Research, Mastectomy
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Misdiagnosis: More Common Than Drug Errors or Wrong-Site Surgery
The Hartford CourantUntil it happened to him, Itzhak Brook, a pediatric infectious disease specialist at Georgetown University School of Medicine, didn't think much about the problem of misdiagnosis. That was before doctors at a Maryland hospital repeatedly told Brook his...Tags: MRI (imaging), Colleges and Universities, Hospitals and Clinics, Internal Medicine, Georgetown University
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Sisters increase awareness of hereditary breast cancer
Richmond Times-DispatchWhen tests showed that sisters Dina Reinhardt and Tracie Abrams both carried the breast cancer 1 gene mutation, significantly raising their risk of developing breast and ovarian cancers, both decided to have their breasts removed. Reinhardt, 36, married...Tags: Healthcare Provider, The New York Times, Ovarian Cancer, Medical Specialization, Biology
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