6 Tips To Ensure Safe and Comfortable Holiday Travel

From: Home Care Assistance For many, gathering with family and friends for the holidays means boarding a plane and traveling hundreds, or even thousands, of miles. Traveling during the holiday season is stressful not only because of traffic, overbooked flights and frequent delays but also because planes are hotbeds for sickness. For seniors, traveling can [...]

Vitamin D Supplements Won’t Help Prevent Disease: Review

From: Drugs.com Low levels of vitamin D have been implicated as a potential cause of diseases ranging from cancer to diabetes. Now an extensive review suggests it’s really the other way around: Low levels of the “sunshine vitamin” are more likely a consequence — not a cause — of illness. In their review of almost [...]

Breast Cancer Helpline Expands Hours

    BREAST CANCER HELPLINE 888-753-LBBC (5222)   BREAST CANCER HELPLINE EXPANDS HOURS BY KEVIN GIANOTTO, , ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, MARKETING, PUBLIC RELATIONS AND CORPORATE RELATIONS, LIVING BEYOND BREAST CANCER   Living Beyond Breast Cancer expands their helpline live calling hours to Monday through Friday 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. ET. to help those in need. [...]

The importance of sex in the midst of a cancer diagnosis

by James C. Salwitz, MD From: KevinMD.com It occurs to me that I talk to my patients more about death and dying, than about sex.  It is not that I lack interest or an appreciation of the importance of intimacy, but like most physicians I fall into the trap of fighting the dread disease, instead [...]

Imaging breast cancer with light

From: The Almagest Netherlands researchers unveil their ‘photoacoustic mammoscope,’ a new device that could someday be used for routine breast cancer screenings Breast cancer is one of the most common forms of cancer and cancer deaths among women worldwide. Routine screening can increase breast cancer survival by detecting the disease early and allowing doctors to [...]

The Spirit of the Holiday Season

It’s hard to believe that it is just 2 ½ weeks until Christmas.  Holiday parties and celebrations of the season are underway and everywhere you look, the decorations are up and the shopping is in full swing.  And it seems that even the weather is contributing with beautiful snowy scenes that normally are seen only [...]

TB Vaccine May Work Against Multiple Sclerosis: Study

From: Drugs.com A vaccine normally used to thwart the respiratory illness tuberculosis also might help prevent the development of multiple sclerosis, a disease of the central nervous system, a new study suggests. In people who had a first episode of symptoms that indicated they might develop multiple sclerosis (MS), an injection of the tuberculosis vaccine [...]

Breast Cancer Risk Related to Changes in Breast Density as Women Age

From: Digital Journal PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Automated breast density measurement is predictive of breast cancer risk in younger women, and that risk may be related to the rate at which breast density changes in some women as they age, according to research being presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America [...]

Many Women Receive Unnecessary Pap Tests, Study Finds

From: Drugs.com Doctors in the United States overuse Pap tests for cervical cancer screening in some groups of women, according to a new study. Researchers found that women who have had their sex organs removed and others considered too old to worry about cervical cancer are among those getting tested. “Almost two-thirds of women who [...]

ESTROGEN: NOT JUST PRODUCED BY THE OVARIES

A University of Wisconsin-Madison research team reports today that the brain can produce and release estrogen — a discovery that may lead to a better understanding of hormonal changes observed from before birth throughout the entire aging process. The new research shows that the hypothalamus can directly control reproductive function in rhesus monkeys and very [...]

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