At the recent Golden Globes award ceremony, it emerged that actor Michael C. Hall, who won his first Golden Globe for his TV role of “Dexter, has been undergoing treatment for cancer. Hall revealed that he was in remission from Hodgkin’s lymphoma before the ceremony, so reporters were on stand-by to get the scoop on his health. [...]
Archive for January, 2010
Dexter’s right to privacy
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged celebrity cancer, christina applegate, Cynthia Nixon, Dexter, Farrah Fawcett, Golden Globes, Hodgkins lymphoma, Huffington Post, lance armstrong, Melissa Etheridge, Michael C Hall, Sheryl Crow Testifies on Breast Cancer on January 31, 2010 | 16 Comments »
Releasing emotional pain
Posted in Inspiration, Uncategorized, tagged Living with Intention, Releassing emotional pain, Taiya K Evras on January 30, 2010 | 20 Comments »
Today I would like to share a beautiful reflection by my friend Taiya Evras on releasing emotional pain. I feel sure you will inspired by it as much as I have been. Heavy, smothering, exhausting, debilitating, pain. Yes physical pain can seem this way. I am speaking here of emotional pain. Letting go of pain [...]
Personalised cancer treatment a step closer
Posted in Research, tagged breast cancer, Breathrough Breast Cancer, Cancer Research UK, chemotherapy, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, genetic testing for cancer, Meg McArthur, Oliver Childs, personalised cancer treatment on January 28, 2010 | 6 Comments »
A genetic test could one day spot breast cancer patients most at risk of relapsing after treatment with a commonly used powerful chemotherapy. US researchers tested tumours for activity from two genes which appeared to cut the effectiveness of a class of cancer drugs. The fact that a drug may be highly effective in some [...]
Can you have too much information?
Posted in Fertility, patient empowerment, Psychological impact of cancer, tagged breast cancer and fertility, Cancer, cancer information, chemotherapy, Cure Today, Health literacy, Helen Osborne, patient empowerment on January 27, 2010 | 22 Comments »
Being a firm advocate of arming yourself with as much information as you can when you are faced with a health crisis, I am intrigued by an article in Cure Today which poses the question, how much is enough when it comes to cancer information? Helen Osborne, a health care provider and health literacy consultant always believed in [...]
Breast cancer survivors wanted
Posted in Survivorship, tagged breast cancer, cancer survivorship, Cure Today, Lena Huang, National Cancer Institute, Pathways to Recovery After Breast Cancer on January 26, 2010 | 7 Comments »
As you know, I am a big advocate of a structured treatment plan for cancer survivors which includes support and information for that post-treatment limbo phase we can find ourselves in. Today I came across a post by Lena Huang on the Cure Today website which has great information on a new study which address this issue and [...]
Beyond Blue Interview Part 2
Posted in depression, tagged Beyond Blue, depression, nutrition and depression link, Therese J Borchard on January 25, 2010 | 22 Comments »
Part Two of my interview with Therese J. Borchard, author of Beyond Blue: Surviving Depression & Anxiety and Making the Most of Bad Genes According to your book, you tried 23 different combinations of medication. Why did you have to try so many? My form of bipolar disorder was subtle and hard to detect. Actually, [...]
Meat Free Monday
Posted in Healthy Recipes, tagged Betroot, lentil and feta salad, meat free monday, vegetarian recipe on January 25, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Today’s recipe features beetroot, which, if you can’t find fresh, are also sold in handy vacuum packs. The scarlet colour of beetroot is thought to be a combination of the naturally occurring yellow (betacyanin) and purple (betaxanthin) pigments. These vibrant pigments are potent phytochemicals and antioxidants that work to protect damage to body cells from [...]
The Beyond Blue Interview
Posted in depression, tagged Beyond Blue, depression, Kay Redfield Jamison, stigma of mental illness, suicide, Therese Borchard, William Styron on January 24, 2010 | 29 Comments »
It is such an honour and a delight for me today to have the chance to share with you an interview with Therese J. Borchard, the author of Beyond Blue: Surviving Depression & Anxiety and Making the Most of Bad Genes. As I wrote in an earlier post, Therese writes with such compelling honesty, clarity [...]
Beyond Blue
Posted in depression, tagged Beyond Blue, depression, Therese Borchard on January 23, 2010 | 15 Comments »
As we come to the end of Depression Awareness Week here in Ireland, and of course awareness should not be restricted to just one week, I thought it would be a good time to share with you a wonderful new book on the subject by Therese Borchard. I am a regular follower of Therese’s blog Beyond Blue, voted [...]
Poetry Friday
Posted in Inspiration, tagged poetry on January 22, 2010 | 12 Comments »
Instead of a poem for you this Friday, I would like to share with you a reflection on the nature of poetry written by AA Gill. It beautifully sums up what poetry means for me and the reasons why I decided to start Poetry Friday on this blog. “One of the most satisfying things about words is their [...]
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