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July
24, 2009
News
Headlines
No ''Cadillacs'' in U.S. Healthcare Reform
Proposals
Pre-Op Chemo Plus
Radiation Does Not Extend Survival in Patients
Childhood
Radiation Therapy Ups Breast Cancer Risk
Vitamin D Deficiency Adversely Impacts
Multiple Myeloma
Bariatric Surgery
May Reduce Cancer Risk in Obese Women
BRCA2 Breast Cancer More Sensitive to
Chemotherapy
Sunitinib Prolongs
Survival in Advanced, Kidney Cancer
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Can You Pay for It?
President Barack Obama took his case for the urgency of
healthcare reform to the American people Wednesday night, warning that to do
nothing is not acceptable. He said he and members of Congress have great health
care -- reform isn't urgent for them. The need for reform is urgent for
people who are seeing their premiums and co-pays going up while their benefits
decline or coverage is denied. Reuters
Health and Science Editor Maggie Fox writes in the Reuters Blog about one
case in point - cancer patient, Angela Kegler
McDowell.
SuperSibs
Across the country
there are many children who just learned their brother or sister has cancer. By
some estimates this happens more than 46 times a day, turning the world on its
ear. There's an organization that can help the siblings while mom and
dad need to focus on the patient. SuperSibs. Find out more about SuperSibs at their
web site here. You can refer a family to SuperSibs by calling (866)
444-7427. Here's
an article about how SuperSibs helped one family.
Wish Come
True
Seventeen-year-old Colette Jaycox has leukemia, but
politics runs in her veins. When she applied to the Make-A-Wish Foundation, it
wasn't for a trip to Disneyland or Sea World, it was to spend the day with
Jim Lehrer at WETA in suburban Washhington D.C. while he and his staff prepared
his weekday hourlong news show on PBS, "The NewsHour." She and
her family were flown from Freemont, California to spend the day, Tuesday. Read
more about her wish in the Washington Post, here.
Hotdog! - the
lawsuit
Americans spend
billions of dollars every year on hotdogs and other processed meats. A
group called the Cancer Project believes those products should carry a warning -
"Consuming hotdogs and other processed meats increases the risk of
cancer." The vegan advocacy
group filed suit in New Jersey this week seeking to force hotdog
manufacturors to put warnings on their products. Read
about it here. The National Hotdog and Sausage
Council opposes the warnings.
In the Lab/In the
Clinic
Stop and Smell the Flowers - It really does reduce
stress. The science now proves it, according to research published in the
American Chemical Society's Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry.
In rats anyway, certain odors were shown to alter gene activity and blood
chemistry in a way that can reduce stress. Read
more about it
here.
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