Study points to possible treatment for lethal pediatric brain cancer
NIH-funded preclinical study suggests epigenetic drugs may be used to treat leading cause of pediatric brain cancer death. SOURCE: NIH...
Month: May 2015
Are you (or your parents) Ready for a Continuing Care Retirement Community?
Making sense of continuing care retirement community The post Are you (or your parents) Ready for a Continuing Care Retirement...
Canadian Dental Hygienists Support Improved Health Services to Remote First Nations Communities
The Canadian Dental Hygienists Association (CDHA) is pleased to see that the 2015 Spring Reports of the Auditor General of...
Fertility and Pregnancy in Bulimia Nervosa
Written by Tamara J. Aitken, RN, MSN, Kimberli McCallum, MD, CEDS, FAPA, and Ginger Nicol, MD Bulimia Nervosa: The Basics...
Planning for our healthy future
All of us in the health care sector work hard every day to ensure that we are meeting the needs...
10 Things All White Folks Need to Consider About the #BaltimoreUprising
By Jamie Utt for Everyday Feminism, cross-posted with permission As I reflect upon the most recent Baltimore Uprising taking place...
#Beaniesforbraincancer raises awareness of limited funding into research of aggressive disease
If Gold Logie winner Carrie Bickmore's aim was to raise brain cancer awareness when she used her acceptance speech to...
East Meets West in Medicine
The Yin (left) and Yang (right) in all its glory. There I go again, a Western guy giving a lecture...
New survey: Percentage of Texans without health insurance drops dramatically
The percentage of Texans without health insurance dropped 31 percent since enrollment began in the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) Health...
Combining targeted drug with chemotherapy offers longer life to b-cell cancer patients
Because of the significant benefit found in combining the targeted drug ibrutinib with standard chemotherapy for relapsed chronic lymphocytic leukemia...
New Roche Meter & App to Bring Mobile Insulin Recommendations, Despite Recall
In the coming months, we'll see the Roche Accu-Chek Connect system hit the market here in the States -- giving...
