Prenatal and Postnatal BPA Exposure - Jessica Werder MPH, June 16th, 2014
Bisphenol-A (BPA) is a chemical used in a variety of everyday consumer products, including bicycle helmets, the plastics used to manufacture water bottles, baby bottles and utensils and the linings of many food cans. For more than a decade scientific evidence has accumulated to suggest that exposure to BPA, a chemical that is useful as . . . → Read More: Prenatal and Postnatal BPA Exposure
Quality-Focused Care Misses The Mark - Posted By BCC Admin, June 11th, 2014
“‘Nothing Is Broken’: For An Injured Doctor, Quality-Focused Care Misses The Mark.’” By Charlotte Yeh, Health Affairs.
When a physician winds up in the emergency department, providers put quality metrics and testing before her actual needs.
It was just after 6 o’clock in the evening on Wednesday, December 7, 2011—Pearl Harbor Day—when I left my . . . → Read More: Quality-Focused Care Misses The Mark
New NHS statins guidance ‘risks harming patients’ - Posted By BCC Admin, June 10th, 2014
“New NHS statins guidance ‘risks harming patients.’” By Edward Malnick, The Telegraph.
Telling millions of healthy people to take statins risks harming ‘many patients over many years’, doctors warn Jeremy Hunt, the Health Secretary, and watchdogs.
Proposals to advise 12 million people to take statins could have “worrying” consequences because the plans were borne out . . . → Read More: New NHS statins guidance ‘risks harming patients’
The Difference Between Cancersploitation and Art—According to a Cancer Survivor - Lani Horn PhD, June 9th, 2014
(TIME) — Whether we view cancer films as outsiders or insiders, the best movies in the genre provide catharsis.
In The Fault in Our Stars, Hazel, the story’s teenage protagonist played by Shailene Woodley, wears a t-shirt imprinted with Magritte’s famous painting of a pipe, ceci n’est pas une pipe (“this is not a pipe”). . . . → Read More: The Difference Between Cancersploitation and Art—According to a Cancer Survivor
Review: Decoding Annie Parker - Posted By BCC Admin, June 8th, 2014
“Review: Decoding Annie Parker.” The Risky Body blog.
Decoding Annie Parker tells the story of two women; Annie Parker, a three time cancer survivor and the geneticist Mary-Claire King whose discovery of the breast cancer BRCA gene mutation is considered one of the most important discoveries of the 20th century.
I see why BRCA+ women . . . → Read More: Review: Decoding Annie Parker
ASCO: Herceptin Still a Boon for Small Breast Tumors - Posted By BCC Admin, June 3rd, 2014
“ASCO: Herceptin Still a Boon for Small Breast Tumors.” By Michael Smith, MedPage Today.
The monoclonal antibody trastuzumab (Herceptin) was beneficial for women with small tumors, according to a new meta-analysis of the randomized trials of the drug. It also was equally beneficial in hormone receptor-positive and -negative disease, according to Ciara O’Sullivan, MD, of . . . → Read More: ASCO: Herceptin Still a Boon for Small Breast Tumors
Is This Science or Censorship? - Gayle Sulik PhD, June 1st, 2014
There are two parts to this story. The first involves a scientific debate about new guidelines for prescribing cholesterol-lowering drugs. The second is about threats to that scientific debate, as an industry heavyweight in support of the guidelines holds court in mass media to demand retraction of two research articles (published in the international medical . . . → Read More: Is This Science or Censorship?
BCC Quarterly Is Out! (Issue 2) - Gayle Sulik PhD, May 15th, 2014
Tear up the pink ribbons…
“…Campaign for honest information.”
This recent, unexpected advice from the British Medical Journal comes after decades of debate over screening mammograms for average risk women. In response to campaigns in which women are encouraged to get mammograms (e.g, “If you haven’t had a mammogram, you need more than your breasts . . . → Read More: BCC Quarterly Is Out! (Issue 2)
Choosing Contralateral Mastectomy - Jessica Werder MPH, May 11th, 2014
Contralateral prophylactic mastectomy (CPM) is a procedure in which a woman with breast cancer in one breast has both the affected breast and the healthy breast removed at the same time. Between 1998 and 2008, CPM procedures increased 15 percent per year among breast cancer patients in the United States. While removing a healthy breast . . . → Read More: Choosing Contralateral Mastectomy
A Poem from Navigating the Old Road - Jan Spence, May 9th, 2014
“I’VE BEEN DIAGNOSED…”
she said to me across the small
round table in the clattering coffee shop
on what had been a normal Tuesday morning.
No! I wanted to cover my ears,
but I watched the foul words leak from her lips
and fill the room
like a thick fog in . . . → Read More: A Poem from Navigating the Old Road
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