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Bryan Cain-Jackson: Skin Cancer Awareness

2013-05-17T11:16:33Z

Skin cancer is the most common form of cancer and often occurs in the face because that is the most sun exposed area of the human body - this is with the cancers that experts believe to be largely the result of cumulative UV exposure starting off during childhood.

Read more: Cancer, Skin Cancer, Skin Cancer Prevention, Impact News

Landon Donovan: The Worst 'Red Card' I've Ever Received

2013-05-16T10:30:51Z

I recall distinctly the moment we received the news that my father had been diagnosed with skin cancer; it's not the kind of thing you forget easily. The bump on his eyelid that worsened quickly was more than just a bump, it was something that had the potential to change our lives.

Read more: The Skin Cancer Foundation, Impact-Sports, Skin Cancer, Skin Cancer Prevention, Landon Donovan World Cup, Landon Donovan, Landon Donovan Soccer, Impact News

Dave Dubin: It's All About the Shoes

2013-05-13T09:11:13Z

This weekend we had our first AliveAndKickathon New England. This was the first venture outside my comfort zone. As always, I'm thankful. Thankful for those who tolerate my world, encourage me, and participate in whatever capacity they are compelled.

Read more: Colon Cancer, Colondar Cancer, Preventing Cancer, Cancer, Impact News

Xaque Gruber: Kitt Shapiro Remembers Her Mom, Eartha Kitt, on Mother's Day... And Everyday

2013-05-10T17:25:46Z

My mother would have named me Kitt whether I was a boy or a girl, and often introduced us to people, saying, "I'm Eartha and she's Kitt," as if I completed her. And, in some ways, I guess I did.

Read more: CBS Sunday Morning, Kitt Shapiro, Colon Cancer, Mother Daughter Relationships, Composting, Eco-Friendly, Mother's Day, Rufus Wainwright, Eartha Kitt, Cbs, Poetry, Women News

Megan McFeely: Sacred Mole

2013-05-08T16:16:29Z

I am not angry at my doctor. I feel compassion for her, because she was trained in the mechanical model, but I write this today for myself, as a reminder that it is okay to take my time and listen to my body, even if there are time pressures and the schedules of others to accommodate.

Read more: Sacred, Caregiving, Healing, Skin Cancer, Health, Biopsy, Health Care, Biopsies, Healthy Living News

David Shing: Razorfish Converge Shingerview: Yael Cohen, Founder and CEO, Fuck Cancer

2013-05-07T13:12:44Z

It's said that laughter is the best medicine and for Yael Cohen, CEO and Founder of Fuck Cancer, that is her prescribed strategy in jump-starting conversations around cancer.

Read more: Fuck Cancer, Convergence, David Shing, Shingerviews, Razorfish, Yael Cohen, Video, Business News

Jim Moret: When Pain Becomes the New Normal

2013-05-07T10:53:15Z

1,735 days and counting. That's how long our son, a sensitive, loving and talented 15-year-old boy, has been in the grips of debilitating, life-altering and totally consuming, neurological pain.

Read more: Chronic Pain, Depression, Parenting, Medicine, Children, Pain, Rare Medical Conditions, Medical Conditions, Raising Children, Chronic Conditions, Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, Healthy Living News

WATCH: Blind Biker Shows Off Amazing Tricks

2013-04-24T17:16:13Z

Matt Gilman, who you can see in this video performing amazing tricks on a bicycle, lost his vision in 2004, due to complications attributed to Type 1 ...

Read more: Blind, American Diabetes Association, Video, Maryland Impact, Trial Biking, Inspiration, Dc Impact, Matt Gilman Blind Biker, Tour De Cure, Matt Gilman, DC News

Stig Egil Bojesen: Mapping Telomerase

2013-04-22T16:24:44Z

Some weeks ago I gave birth to a child after being pregnant for more than four years. The birth was postponed several times, but finally it came; along with 12 brothers and sisters, and with more than 1,000 parents.

Read more: Telomerase-Activity, Telomere Length, Telomerase Mapping, Telomerase Gene Mapping, Stem Cells, Cancer Cure, Genetics, Cancer, Telomerase, Science News

Lisa Kaas Boyle: In a Viral World, Critical Analysis Is Critical: Lessons Learned at Transmedia Hollywood 4

2013-04-17T14:02:32Z

The petrochemical lobby has the bucks, the high-priced ad agencies, lawyers, and legislators in their pockets. We have the truth and our creativity.

Read more: The Twilight Saga, 5 Gyres, UCLA School of Theater, Transmedia Hollywood 4, Erick Huerta, Jonathan Mcintosh, The Simpsons, Falling Whistles, Film and Television, Transmedia, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, Buffy vs. Edward, The Cancer Talk, Ann Pendleton-Jullian, Sean Carasso, Fuck Cancer, Plastic Pollution Coalition, American Chemistry Council, Media News

Laurie Fenton Ambrose: The Case for Lung Cancer Screening -- Now

2013-04-11T15:57:06Z

Cancer screening in general has come under concerted attack. Until there is greater progress in treating late stage and metastatic cancers of any type and in making the highly-touted biomarkers tests more accurate, screening is only way to find cancer at an early, curable stage.

Read more: Detecting Lung Cancer, Cancer Screening Costs, Lung Cancer, Personal Health, Lung Cancer Screening Costs, Cancer Screening Trial, Cancer Screening, Early Detection Lung Cancer, Lung Cancer Screenings, Early Detection, Lung Cancer Treatment, Lung Cancer Screening, Cancer Screenings, Healthy Living News

Kelly Bergin: Chronic Pain and Pep Talks

2013-04-09T17:27:56Z

Chronic pain is hard to explain and even harder for people to understand. They assume your new medicine will make you better. They assume you'll be fine once the medicine kicks in. But the reality is that most of my moments, even the most joyous ones, are quietly humming with pain.

Read more: Chronic Pain, Thyroid Cancer, Cancer Chronic Pain, Cancer Pain, Cancer, Generation Why, Healthy Living News

Erin Havel: The Cost of Cancer Drugs and Research

2013-04-09T12:25:25Z

In their Intellectual property case, the pharmaceutical company Novartis was asking to block a generic form of their cancer drug Gleevec from being created and sold by India. As a writer and also a person living with chronic myelogenous leukemia, I understand both sides of the battle.

Read more: Cancer Drugs, Big Pharma, Prescription Drug Costs, Chemotherapy, India Novartis, Cost Medications, Cancer Medication Research, Gleevec, India Pharma Novartis, Intellectual Property Drugs, Cancer Pharma, Cancer Novartis, Patent Law Drugs, Healthy Living News

Dave Dubin: Model Life, or Life of a Model

2013-04-09T12:12:50Z

I take my role as a Colondar model very seriously. When a patient first gets diagnosed with colon cancer, or any cancer, and sees that there a dozen people this year, and dozens more previously, who have not only survived, but thrived, it makes them feel that they can be one as well.

Read more: Survivor, Model, Colon Cancer, Colondar, Young Adults Cancer, Generation Why, Cancer, Cancer Survivor, Healthy Living News

Matthew Kavanagh: The Economics of Cancer: Learning From India About Innovation

2013-04-05T17:53:48Z

But what if you want to incentivize investment in bold new drugs instead of me-too drugs? What if you want to encourage research into new areas that tangibly improve people's health? Then maybe, like India, you would only grant patents when that higher standard is met.

Read more: India, Patents, Patent Law, Medication Research, Cancer Drugs, Drug Development, Medications Patents, Drugs Patents, Drug Research, Drug Patents, Medication Patents, Medication Development, Cancer Medications, Health News, Healthy Living News

Paul Raeburn: Did Time Magazine Offer Favorable Coverage to M.D. Anderson Cancer Center?

2013-04-05T11:31:55Z

Did Time promise M.D. Anderson favorable coverage in return for buying the ad? Both Time and M.D. Anderson told me that did not happen. But there are reasons to be suspicious.

Read more: Conflict of Interest, Alternative Cancer Cures, Ad Placement, Phony Cancer Cures, Magazine Ad Guidelines, Good Journalism Practices, American Society of Magazine Editors, Asme, Cancer Cure, War on Cancer, Cancer, Adjacent Ads, Curing Cancer, Media News

Dave Dubin: 12th Most Attractive Colon Cancer Survivor in 2012

2013-04-02T15:51:33Z

It's always a little awkward to do self-promotion. Afterwards, I started thinking about the non-profit world, especially the world of colon cancer, and I realized that it's okay, in fact, necessary, to do self-promotion. Otherwise, you can't make a difference, and you can't get sponsors.

Read more: Healthy Living Health News, Voiceover, Oncologist, Cancer, New Jersey, Colon Cancer, Generation Y, Healthy Living News

Waffle House Waitress Turned Life Saver

2013-04-02T10:16:43Z

Renee Vance, who began nursing school in January, got some real-life medical experience at the Waffle House chain she's worked at for 27 years.

She...

Read more: American Diabetes Association, Renee Vance, Michael Garcia, Impact News, Kelly Thrasher, Orange Juice, Greatest-Person-of-the-Day, Waffle House, Diabetes, Diabetic Coma, Diabetic Shock, Waffle House Diabetic, Good Samaritan, Impact News

Francesca Kaplan Grossman: I Have Finally Found The Calm That Protects Me

2013-03-29T14:21:45Z

I hate that instead of palming my belly to feel movement of a life, I fingertip-explore my body for lumps of danger. I hate that it will always be possible that there is something wrong, and it will never be that kind of right again.

Read more: Growing, Motherhood, Thyroid Cancer, Calm, Inner Calm, Thyroid, Sickness, Living in the Present, Pregnancy, Living in the Moment, Stress-Less Parenting, Cancer, Calmness, Parents-Moms, Parents News

Why Don't Doctors Know More About How Women Get Sick?

2013-03-27T14:25:02Z

We live in a world where robots help perform surgery and a baby born with AIDS has been functionally cured, but doctors still have a lot to learn abou...

Read more: Gender-Based Medicine, Women and Heart Disease, Colon Cancer, Gender and Illness, Gender Based Medicine, Gender and Medicine, Gender Medicine, Male Female Differences, Gender Disease, Men vs. Women, Women News

Tory Zellick: Got MS? Focus on What You Can Do, Not on What You Can't

2013-03-26T13:29:49Z

A week after returning from a snowboarding trip, Emmy-award-winning talk show host Montel William recalls how, 15 years ago, a doctor not only diagnosed Williams with multiple sclerosis (MS) but also advised Williams that he would be confined to a wheelchair within four years.

Read more: Dr. Oz, Multiple Sclerosis, Caregiver, Caregiving, Ms, Donna Cardillo, Montel Williams, Caregiving Advice, Caregiving Tips, Chronic Conditions, Healthy Living News

Noah Kass: Chronic Pain and Your Social Life: Ask Noah

2013-03-22T18:23:10Z

Clients with whom I've worked suffering from chronic pain symptoms often articulate to me that the most frustrating aspect of living with chronic pain is the unpredictability of the symptoms themselves.

Read more: Dealing With Chronic Pain, Social Support, Social Life, Emotional Health, Maintaining Relationships, Chronic Pain, Chronic Conditions, Fibromyalgia, Wellness, Healthy Living News

David Katz, M.D.: My Colonoscopy

2013-03-21T14:38:02Z

Take good care of yourself, and you will be taking good care of your GI tract. Take good care of your GI tract, and it will very probably take good care of you. But it is working hard every day, and may well suffer effects of wear and tear as a result, much like your skin.

Read more: Dr. Mehmet Oz, Gi, Colon Cancer, Colonoscopy, Dr. David Katz, Colonoscopy Screening, Personal Health, Colonoscopy Prep, Colonoscopy Experience, Colonoscopy and Health, Gi Tract Health, Gi Tract, Colonoscopy Health, Colonoscopy Procedure, Colon Cancer Prevention, Healthy Living News

Davis Schneiderman: On Surviving a Brain Cancer Death Sentence

2013-03-20T18:14:53Z

My father is now a long-term survivor who has completely defied the conventional wisdom about his disease. He has survived for seven years: seven years living with a disease whose five-year survival rate for the most favorable patient class is a dismal 14 percent.

Read more: Preston Robert Tisch Brain Tumor Center, Leptomeningeal-Carcinomatosis, Brain Cancer, Surviving Cancer, Glioblastoma, What-You-Learn-After-Surviving-Cancer, Valerie Harper, Decadron, Chronic Conditions, Healthy Living News

Dave Dubin: Talking About Cancer

2013-03-20T12:10:33Z

Like I said, life is a conversation. I'm good at helping the non-colon cancer world talk about it. What do you wanna talk about?

Read more: Colondar Colon Cancer, Generation Why, Cancerversary, Colon Cancer, Cancer Survivor, Cancer Community, Cancer Surgery, Cancer, Cancer Annniversary, Healthy Living News