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• Cancer Spots and Parking Spots

  
  Chatelaine — Authority: 145
  On the way to the hospital this morning, as we navigated the morning rush hour / rainy day traffic, my husband and I were saying that we would just for once like to leave one of these meetings with some really good news. Just a little luck, that’s all we wanted.  Sometimes it feels like we’ve been so beaten ...
  5 days ago

• Unsure Where Were Headed

  
  Stronger Than Cancer — Authority: 117
  Im numb. And irate. And numb again. I can hardly talk to anyone. I want to scream. Yell. Throw things. Moms cancer is growing. All of the tumors. In both lungs. Dr. Dy is not sure anything can be done. But, as a last resort, he is putting mom on a chemo that she has already been on. 2 years ago. In hopes that it might ...
  5 days ago

• Mummies reveal ancient Egyptians had atherosclerosis

  
  iHealthBulletin News — Authority: 135
  Health.UCSD.edu - A new study involving mummies finds that atherosclerosis, hardening of the arteries, was common in ancient Egyptians, challenging a belief that cardiovascular disease is mainly a modern affliction caused by current-day risk factors such as stress and sedentary lifestyles. Michael Miyamoto, MD, a ...
  6 days ago

• Losing My Marbles in The Hope-Fear Continuum

  
  Chatelaine — Authority: 145
  On Friday I had CT scans of pretty much everything but the arms and legs to check the stage of my lumps and bumps as compared to three treatment cycles — or just over two months — ago.  We’ll get the results Thursday morning, when I go in for my regular clinic appointment.  Normally a head scan wouldn’t ...
  1 week ago

• hospital day

  
  casa az — Authority: 129
  Well, an afternoon really. I have my check-up with the oncologist later on today and either before or after that I’ll be going to get my port flushed, and then go to emergency to get my eyeballs looked at. That weird flashing prism thing happened again on Sunday evening, though it didn’t last as long as the ...
  1 week ago

• Two-Timing Nefertiti?

  
  Zenobia: Empress of the East — Authority: 110
  There are two Nefertiti stories making the rounds -- one important and one maybe not so much. Well start with the lesser news of the day, yet another attempt to tell us what the real Nefertiti really really looked like. Two Italian scholars -- Franco Crevatin , an ethnologist at Trieste University, and Stefano ...
  1 week ago

• A CT Scan and Phlegm

  
  Stronger Than Cancer — Authority: 117
  Mom is getting her CT scan today. And shes sick. Saturday tricked her. It was nice out. She sat outside with her family enjoying the weather and good company. She woke up Sunday coughing and wheezing. She opted not to stay at our place as usual on Monday because she felt that bad. Instead, she stayed last night. She ...
  1 week ago

• Slowly But Surely

  
  Stronger Than Cancer — Authority: 117
  Moms appointment was yesterday. She gained another half a pound and all her blood levels are great. Dr. Dy is ecstatic as we all are. She has a CT scan next week and the results the following week.
  2 weeks ago

• Fluctuating mixed-type hearing loss associated with synovitis–acne–pustulosis–hyperostosis–osteomyelitis (SAPHO) syndrome

  
  COMD News — Authority: 156
  Synovitis, acne, palmoplantar pustulosis (PPP), hyperostosis, and osteitis (SAPHO) are the characteristic features of SAPHO syndrome. A 53-year-old woman had been treated for PPP for 2 years. She complained of hearing loss in the right ear, and otitis externa was diagnosed. The pure-tone audiogram (PTA) indicated mild ...
  2 weeks ago

• Why Is A CT Scan So Expensive in the US

  
  Silenced Majority Portal — Authority: 444
  The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan There is a simple explanation for why American health care costs so much more than health care in any other country: because we pay so much more for each unit of care. As...
  2 weeks ago

• Monday Morning Rehab: Owen Daniels Likely Lost for the Season

  
  The Hazean — Authority: 501
  Two weeks, two season-ending injuries (potentially). The flood gates have been opened. Fantasy owners might have lost one of this season’s best players at his position yesterday in Houston tight end Owen Daniels. Daniels went down in the first quarter with a knee injury that could be a season-ender. More on that ...
  3 weeks ago

• Tumor Size Often Determines How Likely Cancer Will Spread In Lungs

  
  INTACTINFOs BLOG — Authority: 142
  Smaller tumors in lung cancer are less likely to spread into cancer, according to an Archives of Internal medicine study that reported that the earlier the detection, the better chance for successfully treating lung cancer. Early screening usin... Read and post comments | Send to a friend
  3 weeks ago

• Tumor Size Often Determines How Likely Cancer Will Spread In Lungs

  
  Businessmusings — Authority: 143
  Smaller tumors in lung cancer are less likely to spread into cancer, according to an Archives of Internal medicine study that reported that the earlier the detection, the better chance for successfully treating lung cancer. Early screening using a 64 slice CT scan provides early detection of lung cancer even when a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Stanford scans of mummy featured at “Very postmortem: Mummies and medicine”

  
  Egypt Then and Now — Authority: 133
  Image via Wikipedia A 2,500-year-old priest named Irethorrou will be teaching anatomy to all comers in an exhibition beginning Oct. 31. The mummified remains of this onetime inhabitant of a Middle Egyptian city will be on display in his coffin at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, along with a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Fine Line Between Rationing And Appropriate Healthcare

  
  VitalOne Health Insurance Blog — Authority: 135
  Rationing: It’s a dirty word.  Some politicians and activists warn of the dangers of a public option that would have the government ration out health care, and point to Europe as a cautionary tale; others claim that care is already being rationed indirectly by a patient’s health insurance plan . Either way, the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Scans at LA hospital spewed 8x normal radiation

  
  Covering Health — Authority: 477
  On Oct. 8, the FDA issued an alert recommending hospitals review CT scan radiation levels after dangerous doses were detected at an unnamed hospital. The Los Angeles Times ‘ Alan Zarembo took over from there, finding that serious radiation overdoses at Los Angeles’ Cedars-Sinai hospital had prompted the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Risks of CT Scans

  
  HealthMad — Authority: 489
  These days people go in for whole-body CT (computed tomography) scans to detect hidden diseases as a proactive health measure for normal and healthy people. CT scans can provide images with up to 20 times the detail of ordinary x-rays. A pencil thin beam of X-rays passed through the body produces cross sectional ...
  4 weeks ago

• Cancers Can Vanish Without Treatment, but How?

  
  Newsvine - JCAtom's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 129
  ...screening appears to be finding many small tumors that would not be a problem if they were left alone, undiscovered by screening. They were destined to stop growing on their own or shrink, or even, at least in the case of some breast cancers, disappear. More Articles
  4 weeks ago

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