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Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma in the news
on Nov 3, 2009I saw this in the news over the weekend:$6.5 million gift to UCSF from Irwin and Joan Jacobs for head and neck cancer researchhttp://news.ucsf.edu/releases/6.5-million-gift-to-ucsf-from-irwin-and-joan-jacobs-for-head-and-neck-cance/Mr. Jacobs was dia...
Join Jeanne Sather and I in Omaha at Creighton!
on Oct 27, 2009If you are in Omaha, please come by the Creighton Health Sciences Library at 3:30pm and hear Jeanne, I, and Dr. Amy Haddad speak on "Writing as a Therapeutic Tool". Dr. Haddad is a poet, Jeanne is a journalist, and (of course) I am the libr...
CNN's medical expert weighs in on Suzanne Somers' advice
on Oct 24, 2009I don't generally go to CNN for my health advice, and am not sure how many of my readers do, but I found this opinion piece from CNNhealth.com's Conditions expert, Dr. Otis Brawley, and wanted to share for your information. http://www.cnn.com/2009/OP...
Bathroom is DONE!
on Oct 20, 2009Just need to install the towel racks, and buy one more rug to put in front of the shower. Dear husband and I put the last of the IKEA drawers and doors together tonight (catalog, p.202-203). The sink plumbing (water in and drain out) took about 12 vi...
Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma in the news
on Oct 15, 2009Thanks so much to Korean Cuisine, here is press release on a story from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS):New cancer gene discoveredhttp://www.physorg.com/news174662445.htmlSays that they have determined that ACC is caused by...
How to read articles on health and healthcare
on Oct 14, 2009Dr. Alicia White wrote this article that was posted to the United Kingdom's National Health Service site this past January:http://www.nhs.uk/news/pages/howtoreadarticlesabouthealthandhealthcare.aspxfrom the article: "... you need to analyse the...