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Tips From A Cancer Survivor To Help Ease Your Fear About Medical Tests

beliefnet.com | Posted 09.28.2009 | Living

Read More: Medical Test, Fear, Valerie Reiss, Cancer Prevention, Cancer Screening, Annual Scans, Cancer, CAT Scan, Medical Tests, Living News

It's that time of year again for me. Testing time. Ye Annual CAT Scanne. Like the Olde Time Ice Cream Shoppe. But with doctors and isotope-laced Cryst...

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Is Your Body Burning Up With Hidden Inflammation?

Mark Hyman, MD | Posted 09.27.2009 | Living

Read More: Mark Hyman MD, Ultrawellness, C-Reactive Protein, Inflammation, Immune System, Mark Hyman, Dementia, Depression, Hidden Inflammation, Fish Oil, Obesity, Functional Medicine, Vitamin D, Autism, Cancer, Heart Disease, Living News
Mark Hyman, MD

Finding out whether or not you are suffering from hidden inflammation is critical, because almost every modern disease is caused or affected by it. If your immune system and its ability to quell inflammation in your body are impaired, watch out. You are headed toward illness and premature aging.

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Medical Scans Lead To High Doses Of Radiation For Some Patients, Study Finds

nytimes.com | ALEX BERENSON | Posted 09.26.2009 | Living

Read More: New England Journal of Medicine, Cancer, Radiation, Medical Tests, Living News

At least four million Americans under age 65 are exposed to high doses of radiation each year from medical imaging tests, according to a new study in ...

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Video: Pathologist and Surgeon Team to Find the Extent of a Breast Cancer

Kathy Plesser, MD | Posted 09.26.2009 | Living

Read More: Breast Conservation, Cancer, Nyu Cancer Center, Breast Cancer, Health, Breast Cancer Treatment, Living News
Kathy Plesser, MD

Dr. Deborah Axelrod, a breast surgeon and Dr. Baljit Singh, a pathologist, talk about breast conservation on video.

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What Senator Ted Kennedy's Brain Tumor Means For The Rest Of Us

health.com | Posted 09.26.2009 | Living

Read More: Politics, Cancer, Senator Ed Kennedy, Edward Kennedy, Ed Kennedy, Health, Glioma, Brain Cancer, Brain Tumor, Senator Edward Kennedy, Living News

Glioma is a catchall term that includes many different types of tumor, including astrocytomas, oligodendrogliomas, and ependymomas, according to the A...

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Do Tell: Letters, Texts and Sleepovers

Trish Kinney | Posted 09.25.2009 | Living

Read More: Pornography, Bone Marrow Transplant, Birds and Bees, Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Program of North Carolina, Silver Platter Girl, Cancer, Sexual Abuse, Texting, Living News
Trish Kinney

Such old-fashioned letters rarely bothered with the minutiae of a typical electronic transmission but instead were more focused on feelings and hopes and things that came straight from the heart.

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Lyme/Autism Group Blasts Genetically Modified Foods as Dangerous

Jeffrey Smith | Posted 10.07.2009 | Living

Read More: Seeds of Deception, Roundup Ready, Roundup, Infertility, Safety Test, Toxin, LIA Foundation, Lyme Induced Autism Foundation, Patient Advocacy, Liberty Herbicide, Campaign for Healthier Eating in America, Soy, Allergy, Shopping Guide, Digestive Disorders, Amy Dean, Cancer, Infant Mortality, Environmental Toxin, Genetic Engineering, American Academy of Environmental Medicine, Sterility, Genetically Modified Foods, Corn, Genetically Engineered Foods, Carcinogens, Reproductive Problems, Inflammation, Immune System, Rbst, Beneficial Bacteria, Arpad Pusztai, GE Crops, Gmos, Autistic Spectrum, Bt, Institute for Responsible Technology, Kimberly Wilcox, Liberty Link, Rbgh, Gut Flora, Genetic Roulette, Gmo, Insulin-Like Growth Factor 1, Livestock Disease, Dna, Fraternal Twins, Fda, Side Effects, Immune Reaction, World Health Organization, Autism Relief Foundation, Food Allergies, Herbicide-Tolerant, Lyme Disease, Jannelle Love, Animal Feeding Studies, Genetically Modified Organisms, Igf-1, Soy Allergies, GM Crops, Autism, GE Foods, Bovine Growth Hormone, Non-GMO Shopping Guide, GM Foods, Allergies, Aaem, Non-Gmo, Bt-Toxin, Living News
Jeffrey Smith

Stop eating dangerous genetically modified foods! That's the upshot of the Lyme Induced Autism (LIA) Foundation's position paper released today.

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Protect Your Breasts With Vitamin D

Christiane Northrup, MD | Posted 09.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Sunlight, Breast Heath, Breasts, Immunity, Cancer, Vitamin D, Breast Cancer, Health, Christiane Northrup, Wellness, Dr. Christiane Northrup, Living News
Christiane Northrup, MD

A study conducted by Cedric Garland and other researchers determined that women with vitamin D levels above 52 ng/ml have half the risk of developing breast cancer as those with 13 ng/ml.

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Killing the Killers: How We Can Eliminate Heart Disease and Cancer

Dr. Larry Dossey | Posted 09.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Health Care Reform, Alternative Medicine, Integrative Medicine, Heart Disease, Cancer, Complementary Medicine, Functional Medicine, Living News
Dr. Larry Dossey

We need to wake up to the obvious: the solution is already here, and it rests on prevention, not invention.

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You Say Organic, I Say Organic

Ashley Koff | Posted 09.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Organic Products, Organic Farming, Cancer, Cancer Prevention, Organic Eating, Organic Food, Organic, Green News
Ashley Koff

"No system is perfect, but organic is by far the best option we have today, far surpassing any other system both in methods and integrity," says Dag Falck, Organic Program Manager for Nature's Path Foods.

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WATCH: Chevron's Ecuador Problem Forces Andy Rooney to Drop the H-Bomb...Something He Really, Really, Hates to Do

Paul Paz y Miño | Posted 09.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Ecuador, Chevron, Big Oil, Corporate America, Andy Rooney, Media, Cancer, 60 Minutes, Oil Companies, Green News
Paul Paz y Miño

Andy Rooney hates what Chevron is doing -- leaving 18 billion gallons of wastewater and 17 million gallons of crude oil to pollute Amazonian communities, and then trying to pretend that nothing ever happened.

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Nobody Out-Novaked Novak

Richard Laermer | Posted 09.18.2009 | Media

Read More: Cnn, Richard Armitage, Fair Game, Cia, Crossfire, Valerie Plame, Cancer, Journalism, Robert Novak, Evans-Novak, Media News
Richard Laermer

Robert Novak was disliked by many -- liberals, mostly -- but he was a soldier, veteran, and a remarkable, unceasing journalist.

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If Pot Prevented Cancer You Would Have Read About It, Right?

Paul Armentano | Posted 09.17.2009 | Living

Read More: White House, Norml, Marijuana, Obama, Pot, California, Epa, Cannabis, Lung Cancer, Ucla, Alcohol, Brown University, Thc, Cancer, Legalization, Tashkin, Armentano, Living News
Paul Armentano

Investigators from Brown University reported that lifetime marijuana use is associated with a "significantly reduced risk" of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.

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Health Care Reform: Management or Leadership, America? You Pick.

Dr. Susan Corso | Posted 09.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Big Pharma, Insurance Companies, President Obama, 50 Million Uninsured, Team Obama, Health Insurance, Cancer, Healthcare, The AMA, Living News
Dr. Susan Corso

I wasn't going to weigh in on the healthcare reform debate. Truthfully, the debate seems particularly pointless to me because I don't think there is a...

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Shannon's Story: Health Care and Our Desperate Need for Cultural Healing

Cynthia Boaz | Posted 09.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Lifestyle, Holistic Medicine, Healthy Lifestyle, Personal Health, Healing, American Culture, Diet, Western Medicine, Leukemia, Aml, Health, Acute Myelogenous Leukemia, Health Care Reform, Cancer, Health Care, Sleep, Gandhi, Nonviolence, Integrative Power, Living News
Cynthia Boaz

We in the United States have a health care system that creates (rather than eases) burdens for those battling critical illness. We have it all backwards.

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Lockerbie Bomber Drops Second Appeal

AP | BEN McCONVILLE | Posted 09.14.2009 | World

Read More: Lockerbie, Lockerbie Bombing, Scottish Prison, Lockerbie-Appeal, Scotland, Lockerbie Bomber, Lockerbie-Bomb-Conviction, Cancer, Lockerbie Pan Am, Pan Am Flight 103, Abdel Baset Ali Al-Megrahi, Lockerbie Scotland, World News

EDINBURGH, Scotland — The sole man found guilty in the 1988 airplane bombing over Lockerbie is dropping his appeal against conviction, his lawye...

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Cancer Breakthrough! Drug Compound Identified That Kills Cancer Stem Cells

Bloomberg.com | Posted 09.14.2009 | Home

Read More: Stem Cell Research, Mit, Cure for Cancer, Cancer, Home News

A drug that can selectively target and kill the stem cells that drive the growth of tumors has been identified for the first time by scientists who s...

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Art with a Heart

Darryle Pollack | Posted 09.12.2009 | Living

Read More: No Health Insurance, Artists, Breast Cancer, Public Health Insurance Plan, Artwork, Breast-Cancer-Chemotherapy, Health Insurance, Cancer Patients, Chemotherapy, Breast Cancer Patients, Medical Costs, Cancer, Breast Cancer Treatment, Cancer-Cure, Living News
Darryle Pollack

The Hearts for Anna online fundraiser offers a chance to help Anna beat her cancer and get a beautiful piece of art in return.

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Jeff Jarvis: I Have Prostate Cancer

Buzz Machine | Posted 09.11.2009 | Media

Read More: Jeff Jarvis, Jeff Jarvis Prostate Cancer, Cancer, Jeff Jarvis Cancer, Prostate Cancer, Media News

I have cancer, prostate cancer. When the doctor told me, he said that if you're going to get it, this is the one to get. It made feel as if I'd jus...

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'Survivor' Ethan Zohn's Scariest Part Of Cancer: The MEDICAL BILLS

people.com | Posted 09.06.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Cancer, Ethan Zohn, Health Care, Entertainment News

With his usual good humor, Ethan Zohn addresses what he considers the scariest part of being treated for cancer: Dealing with the avalanche of bills t...

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My Own 'Magical Thinking'

Barbara Newman | Posted 09.05.2009 | Living

Read More: Life Transition, Vulnerability, Cancer, Terminal Cancer, Death, Living News
Barbara Newman

What do people do in their most caught-off-guard moment, when "what if" becomes reality? In 2006, when my husband was diagnosed with cancer, I found myself able to answer this question.

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Organics No Better Than Chemical/GMO/Sewage Sludge-Soaked "Food"?

Waylon Lewis | Posted 09.04.2009 | Green

Read More: Farmers' Market, Farmer's Market, Environmental, Toxic, Michael Pollan, Farm, Farmers, Green, Conventional Food, Foodie, Eco, Cancer, Chemicals, Whole Foods, Organic, Organics, Waylon Lewis, elephantjournal.com, Elephant Journal, Toxins, Green News
Waylon Lewis

Studies like the FSA report need to look beyond the dinner plate and recognize that organic farming's avoidance of chemicals offers health benefits beyond nutrition.

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An Overdue Ban On A Dangerous Sweetener

Samuel S. Epstein | Posted 09.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Aspartame, Cancer, Artificial Sweeteners, Aspartame Ban, Searle Aspartame, Gd Searle, Margaret Hamburg, Green News
Samuel S. Epstein

It is anticipated that Dr. Margaret Hamburg, the newly appointed FDA Commissioner and public health advocate, will promptly ban the continued use of aspartame.

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Are You Vitamin D Deficient? 5 Ways The Sunshine Vitamin Could Save Your Life

ABC News | By Raquel Hecker | Posted 09.03.2009 | Living

Read More: The Sunshine Vitamin, Sun, Cancer, Vitamin D Deficient, Vitamin D, Health, Vitamins, Living News

Vitamin D is known as the sunshine vitamin, and it has a lot of sunny benefits, but most Americans aren't getting them because they aren't getting eno...

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Common Misunderstandings About Health Care Reform

Kate Kelly | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Myrna Ulfik, Atul Gawande, Cancer, Lupus Research Institute, Medical Research, Wall Street Journal, Politics News
Kate Kelly

An opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal last Friday caught my attention because of the way it illustrated the many common misunderstandings about health care reform.

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