Mind over Matter? Don’t Kid Yourself (on Stress and BC)
I learned of a new study implicating stress in reduced breast cancer survival by Twitter. Three days ago, a line in my feed alerted me that CNN’s health blog, “Paging Dr. Gupta,” broke embargo on the...
View ArticleGet Off My Case
In my inbox this morning, via ASCO‘s “Cancer in the News” feed: The UK’s Telegraph (5/6, Beckford) reported that as “many as 20,000 British women could avoid developing” breast cancer “each year, if...
View ArticleThe Trouble With Placebos
The latest NEJM features a big story about a small trial, with only 39 patients in the end, on the potential for placebos to relieve patients’ experience of symptoms. This follows other recent reports...
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Life on the Big C – Cathy Tries Acupuncture and Visits a Gay Bar (Season 2,...
This week’s installment of the Big C starts, promisingly, in a medical facility. A nurse or technologists notes that Cathy, melanoma patient extraordinaire, has high blood pressure. The plan is that...
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