Returning to work after cancer
Some of us choose to work right through our treatment for cancer, while others will find themselves on certified sick leave for a period of time. This may be of a few months duration,… Continue reading
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Key to the Cure Campaign
Michael Kors and Heidi Klum, “Project Runway” collaborators, are extending their rapport to a charitable cause. The duo has been tapped by Saks Fifth Avenue and The Breast Cancer Research Foundation for Saks’… Continue reading
Cancer on the ropes
When Dottie Copeland was diagnosed with cancer 10 years ago, she left the room, found her husband waiting for her and said, “I got cancer. Let’s go get a hamburger, I’m hungry.” Copeland… Continue reading
Why do women avoid cancer screening?
Fear plays a major role in whether women decide to go for cancer screening or not, but healthcare providers underestimate how much women need to know and wrongly assume that they will ask… Continue reading
Buying fruit and a cure
AN X-RAY and a bag of oranges, anyone? It makes perfect sense to Dr Preston Maring. In the lobby of Kaiser Permanente’s Oakland Medical Center, Dr Maring says, he’d regularly pass vendors selling… Continue reading
Safe grilling during the summer season
We have had some beautiful sunny weather here in Ireland recently, and that means the barbecue comes out of retirement for the first time since last summer. Nothing says summer quite like that wonderful… Continue reading
Lessons from the past
“We need to remember what we have learned in the past to engage with the present”, wrote Tony Bates in Mind Moves in the Irish Times yesterday. “Every experience has taught us something”… Continue reading
Elizabeth Edwards on “Resilience”
Elizabeth Edwards, wife of former Sen. John Edwards, has had more than her share of struggles in the glare of the public spotlight. She was diagnosed with breast cancer a day after her… Continue reading
