A NEW programme being launched today at the Mardyke Arena in University College Cork hopes to heighten awareness of breast cancer among women along with assisting research, according to a leading cancer specialist who is supporting the project. Director of Breast Cancer Ireland and professor of surgery at the Royal College of Surgeons Ireland, Prof [...]
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Breast Health – Your Wealth
Posted in Breast cancer awareness, tagged Breast cancer awareness, Breast Cancer Ireland, Breast Health – Your Wealth, College of Medicine and Health, Irish Times, Mardyke Arena, Prof Arnold Hill, Prof Michael Berndt, RCSI, Royal College of Surgeons Ireland, survival rates for breast cancer, UCC., University College Cork on June 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Farrah Fawcett funeral to take place next week
Posted in Celebrities on cancer, tagged anal cancer, Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, Catholic cathedral, Farrah Fawcett, Los Angeles on June 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A private funeral for actress Farrah Fawcett will be held at the Catholic cathedral of Los Angeles next Tuesday, church officials said on Friday. The service for the former “Charlie’s Angels” actress will take place at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels at 4 p.m. PDT (1900 EDT). Fawcett, 62, died on Thursday [...]
Casting for Recovery
Posted in Holistic, Inspiration, Lymphdema, Psychological impact of cancer, tagged ballina, breast cancer, Casting for Recovery, co mayo, Countryside Alliance, fly fishing in ireland, fly-fishing, Iraq war veterans, lymphatic system, Mount Falcon, Sue Hunter on June 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I have read about Casting for Recovery, fly-fishing retreats for women who’ve been through breast cancer before, so am delighted to learn that last month they had their first retreat in the Republic of Ireland. In today’s Irish Independent newspaper, you can read a feature article about the organisation and the recent retreat held at Mount [...]
Music as Medicine
Posted in Conferences, Seminars, Public Information Sessions, Holistic, tagged anxiety, asthma, autism, bereavement, Cancer, Castletroy, cystic fibrosis, epilepsy, Graduate Medical School, intensive care units, Irish Times, MA in Music Therapy, Mid-Western Regional Maternity, Milford Care Centre, Music and Medicine, music therapy, neo-natal intensive care units, Prof Jane Edwards, University of Limerick’s Irish WorldAcademy of Music and Dance on June 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Earlier this month I attended the inaugural International Association for Music and Medicine conference in Limerick, hosted by the University of Limerick’s Irish World Academy of Music and Dance in association with UL’s Graduate Medical School. Conference organiser Prof Jane Edwards, director of the MA in Music Therapy in UL, organised a number of visits [...]
Yard Sale for the Cure
Posted in Fundraising, Inspirational Survivors, tagged Breast, Cancer, cancer research, chemotherapy, community, Cure, Family, for, fundraiser, Get, Involved, organizer, rachael smith, radiation, Research, Sale, Series, smith, Survivor, The, treatment, TVO, Yard, yard sale for the cure on June 29, 2009 | 1 Comment »
For Rachael Smith, diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004 and now in remission,‘cancer’ means ‘community’ and so she created Yard Sale for the Cure. It’s an annual event where households across the country donate the proceeds of their yard sale to local cancer research and treatment initiatives. In four years, Yard Sale has raised more [...]
Olivia Newton-John on surviving breast cancer
Posted in Advocacy, Celebrities on cancer, tagged Breast cancer awareness, celebrity breast cancer survivor, early detection of cancer, everyday health, Grease, Olivia Newton-John, physical on June 28, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Olivia Newton-John was already an international pop star when her role as shy-turned-sexy Sandy in the movie musical “Grease” catapulted her to superstardom. That success was followed by several film roles, four Grammy-winning albums, and 15 chart-topping singles — including “Physical,” which topped the Billboard charts for 10 weeks in 1981. She [...]
Secrets and lies
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Dr. Wendy Harpham, medical ethics, medical student, oncologist, Oncology Times on June 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I came across the following interesting article written by Dr Wendy Harpham MD, for Oncology Times: Do patients ever keep secrets from their physicians? Do they ever lie? These are just two of many questions I’ve prepared for a guest lecture to an undergraduate ethics class. While most academic discussions focus on physicians’ professional obligation to [...]
Fans mourn Farrah
Posted in Celebrities on cancer, tagged Charlie's Angels, Farrah Fawcett deth, Hollywood Walk of Fame, ireland, Jill Monroe, Kelly Garrett, Sabrina Duncan on June 26, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Since the news broke yesterday of Farrah Fawcett’s death from cancer, fans have been gathering to place flowers at her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Farrah was one of the most iconic stars of the 1970s, and her red swim suit poster adorned the walls of many childhood bedrooms. The poster sold a [...]
Farrah Fawcett dies
Posted in Celebrities on cancer, tagged Farrah Fawcett dies, ryan o'neill on June 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
People magazine has just reported that Farrah Fawcett, who skyrocketed to fame as one of a trio of impossibly glamorous private eyes on TV’s Charlie’s Angels, has died after a long battle with cancer. Fawcett died at 9:28 a.m. PST at St. John’s Heath Center in Santa Monica, Calif. She was with longtime partner Ryan [...]
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