Articles
Jul 30 2010
New Haven, Conn. — A team of Yale researchers have identified a genetic marker that can help predict the risk of developing ovarian cancer, a hard to detect and often deadly form of cancer.
Reporting online in the July 20 edition of the journal Cancer Research, the team showed that a variant of the KRAS oncogene was present in 25 percent of all ovarian cancer patients. In addition, this...
Jul 29 2010
Do you ever leave your GYN's office feeling more confused about your reproductive health than when you went in? Or that you had questions to ask or observations to make but couldn't get a word in edgewise?
Well, join the club. It seems that this is a common experience, and not just with GYNs. Studies have shown that when a patient starts talking, it takes doctors an average of only 11...
Jul 22 2010
Nazareth native Dr. Hossam Haick is one of the world's leading scientists; he explains how he came up with his idea of detecting cancer via breath tests.
Every time Dr. Hossam Haick - only 35 and one of the most brilliant scientists to come out of Israel - is invited to attend a scientific conference abroad, he is taken aside at Ben-Gurion International Airport and subjected to a rigmarole...
Jul 21 2010
Even if you love your job, spending 40-plus hours at a desk every week can sometimes lead to more than just a headache; it can also be a pain in the neck, shoulders, back, feet, and eyes. Being chained to your desk starves your extremities of blood, oxygen, and other fluids, resulting in tight muscles and stiff joints. But before reaching for the industrial-size bottle of ibuprofen, try these...
Jul 21 2010
Ordinary Courage
You do what you have to do
You may not think your strong
That is ordinary courage
Which you've had all along
When you're faced with something
That could stop you in your tracks
You manage to keep going
Without falling through the cracks
You take each day as it comes
And you make it through
With the help of something
That comes from within you
You may...
