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POPSCertified Pet Therapy: Dogs visiting the sick and injured at hospitals +PICS She said of Richelle: "That was the happiest I've seen her." I've seen one dog at a hospital near my home, visiting the cancer center, which got me hunting for articles. The elderly patients love the visits just as much as the kids. It's a remarkable thing what these pets do for the patients. Such a great idea, cost very little -. a win situation any way you look at it.
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POPSA funny thing happened on the way to the cancer clinic... More: Being able to laugh in the face of cancer lets you continue to own yourself, as hard as that might be, rather than ceding ownership to the disease. A good laugh reminds you that you are not your cancer.… I know that sometimes laughter seems impossible. After my cancer diagnosis I plunged into a bleak funk. And these days I’m struggling with a post-treatment depression that leaves my days swaddled in wearying grays. But no matter how remorseless the gloom, we humans tend to have our antennae for humor out. We’re the animal that wants to laugh, wants to unlock itself through a chuckle and a chortle. And laughter lets us cope, even in awkward moments.
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POPSThe Democrat’s War on Oncologists and Cardiologists cardiology and 19% on radiation oncology. They’re targets only because of cost: Two-thirds of morbidity or mortality among Medicare patients owes to cancer or heart disease. … Cancer doctors get hit because the Administration believes specialists order too many MRIs and CT scans. Certain kinds of diagnostic imaging lose 24% under new assumptions that machines are in use 90% of the time, up from 50%. There isn’t a radiologist in America running an MRI 10.8 hours out of 12, unless he’s lining up patients on a conveyor belt. But claiming scanners are used far more often than they really are lets the Administration “score” spending cuts. It’s like doling out healthcare by mimicking progressive income taxation; tax the haves into oblivion so eventually all can go without. And this change is applied to all expensive equipment, not just MRIs and CTs, so payments for antitumor radiation therapy will fall by up to 44%.
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POPSNanodiamonds Advance Anticancer Gene Therapy Dr. Ho and his research team engineered surface-modified nanodiamond particles that successfully and efficiently delivered DNA into mammalian cells. The delivery efficiency was 70 times greater than that of a conventional standard for gene delivery. That's just great! :D
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POPSweed helps a boy with autism This little boy is getting help by smoking pot - less aggression, more thoughtful interactions with others, more peaceful expressions. Maybe if the big drug companies could make bajillions off of pot it would become legal!
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POPSMy Life As A Woman I had my last period two months ago and I probably get at least 10-15 hot flashes a day. I really take it pretty well except for the cold chills afterwards. So the blanket gets thrown off the bed and it's full of sweat, and I feel like 5 hours sleep a night is all I need. And I'm working two jobs and my boss is the boss from hell at one of them. And I'm coming out. And I'm sick and just had shots and the first day of a dose pack and and antibiotic. LORD HELP ME JESUS. And I LUV this guy for the salute and I salute him back :)
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POPSThe Beautiful Truth Garrett is a 15-year old boy living in the Alaskan wilderness with a menagerie of orphaned animals. Growing up close with nature has given him a deep understanding of nutritional needs required by diet sensitive animals on the reserve. Unfortunately, the untimely and tragic death of his mother propelled him into a downward spiral and he risked flunking out of school. This led to his father’s decision to home-school Garrett. His first assignment was to study a controversial book written by Dr. Max Gerson.
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POPSAdvancement In Prostate Cancer Treatment Cont: Onik places a grid similar to that used in brachytherapy over the perineum -- the area between the scrotum and the anus -- and takes up to 50 tiny needle samples of the prostate. This technique is less likely to cause infection than the most common prostate biopsy technique, in which doctors approach the prostate through the rectum.
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POPSThe Many Shades of Cancer Fatigue Next there’s the physical fatigue of treatment. I spent three nights in the hospital after my surgery, and that was the time I experienced fatigue that’s beyond fatigue, a fatigue so palpable it seems you could touch it. I wanted to shrivel into the fetal curl of a woolly-bear caterpillar, spin a cocoon of sleep and tell my doctors to wake me when it was time to leave. I learned that sleep is bliss, that sleep heals, that sleep is the essential post-op drug. At home, I had to accept that my fatigue was in charge. Mornings were especially slow as I creaked and winced out of bed. I felt like an old car that needed to have its crankcase oil heated before it would start.
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POPSPossible New Cancer treatment This is a 2004 article. Anybody out there got an update? Gold/glass nano particles cling to tumors and are remotely heated and therefore kill cancer cells.
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POPSWorld First: Brain Tissues from Stem Cells
continues: "In regenerative therapy, only a limited number of diseases can be cured with simple cell transplants. Transplanting tissues could raise hopes for greater functional recovery," the institute said in a statement. "Cultivated tissues are still insufficient and too small to be used to treat stroke patients. But study of in-vitro cultivation of more mature cortex tissues, such as those with six zones like in the adult human brain, will be stepped up," it said. The tissues could also serve as "a mini organ" for use in studying the cause of the Alzheimer's disease and developing vaccines, it said. Embryonic stem cells are harvested by destroying a viable embryo, a process that some people find unacceptable. Riken said cortex tissues were also obtained from "induced pluripotent stem cells," which are similar to embryonic stem cells but artificially induced, typically from adult cells such as skin cells. The research was led by Yoshiki Sasai at Riken Centre for Devel
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POPSJust What the Doctor Ordered: A Massage "When you're ill, you don't necessarily get the kind of human contact we do in our daily lives," says end-of-life-care physician Dr. Jean Kutner, who was the lead author of the study. "Most of the touch you receive is related to procedures, such as getting chemo or having blood drawn."
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POPSBreast Cancer Cells Recycle To Escape Death By Hormonal Therapy "She'll now look for ways to block macroautophagy in an animal model, including using chloroquine, a drug used to treat malaria. "We know patients can take it with few side effects," she says. If it works in animals, the drug, in combination with an antiestrogen, could move relatively quickly into human testing."
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