Titles: When are we going to cure cancer? Cancer Chemotherapies and the Health of Your Bones. Late Effects After Cancer Therapy
In the past, some plans would refuse to pay the routine care of patients in clinical trials, arguing the treatments were experimental and therefore not covered.
FDA shouldn’t cave to pressure and allow Genentech to keep advanced metastatic breast cancer on the Avastin label, argues Merrill Goozner.
Hmong women are four times more likely to die of cervical cancer than are white women. Study highlights lack of data on Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander health.
Covered services include mammograms and colorectal cancer screening, bone mass measurement and nutritional counseling.
[ August 7, 2010; 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm. 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm. ]
Gilda’s Club Workshop: Communicating with Your Child
Noogieland Family Workshop with Michelle Massey, LICSW,
(With special guest Miss Kailee Taylor (age 11).
When: Sat. Aug. 7th 12:30pm-2pm
Where: Gilda’s Club Seattle 1400 Broadway in Seattle.
Massey will be speaking about child development, ways to enhance communication with your child/teen, and common feelings and reactions of children living with cancer or children [...]
[ August 12, 2010; 6:45 pm to 8:30 pm. ] Barbara Flye, the Senior Health Policy advisor to Washington Insurance Commissioner, Mike Kreidler, will provide an overview of the new health care reform law, and will help you understand how it relates to coverage for people with cancer.
Gilda’s Club Seattle offers talks by experts on cancer and issues related to cancer and cancer survivors. The talks are free and open to all.
For men with prostate cancer that grows slowly, the treatments may cause more harm than good.
Fish-oil supplements may lower your risk of breast cancer, but don’t run out and stock up on pills just yet. QFC recalls some containers of broccoli raisin salad because they contain walnuts.
Occupational Safety and Health Association does not regulate exposure to these drugs in the workplace.
Andrew Schorr of Patient Power explains how to be a Web-savvy patient. Barbara Flye, senior health policy advisor, explains how health care reform will affect cancer coverage.
[ July 15, 2010; 6:45 pm to 8:30 pm. ] The New Health Reform Law: How Does it Apply to Cancer?
Barbara Flye, the Senior Health Policy advisor to Washington Insurance Commissioner, Mike Kreidler, will provide an overview of the new health care reform law, and will help you understand how it relates to coverage for people with cancer. Also, you will find out what to do [...]
[ July 8, 2010; 6:45 pm to 8:30 pm. ] How to be a Powerful, Web-Savvy Patient
Andrew Schorr, a 10 year leukemia survivor from Mercer Island, and host of nationwide Patient Power® talk shows with experts online, shows you how to find authoritative, empowering information online and how it can help you in your relationship with your doctor(s). He helps you avoid websites with a [...]
Advocates of tanning devices say that they’re is less dangerous than sun tanning. But sunlamps may be more dangerous than the sun, says the FDA.
The U.S. must spend $500 million on prevention this year. Rather than spreading it around, writes Robert Gould, it would be best to target one thing: tobacco.
Although not definitive, the World Health Organization study, the largest of its kind, found little or no risk of brain tumors for most long-term users of cell phone.
Latinas also have lower 5-year survival rates than non-Hispanic white women because they are more likely to be diagnosed with more advanced and aggressive tumors.
The treatment is an novel immune therapy in which a patient’s immune cells are stimulated to attack prostate cancer cells more aggressively.
Cancer patients are being denied access to newer oral drugs or are required to pay hefty out-of-pocket costs for the pills.
FDA weighs Seattle company’s cancer vaccine. Officials investigate reports of H1N1 vaccine side effects. Con artists take advantage of confusion over health reform.
An analysis of lung cancer screening results in 3,200 people finds that 21% to 33% of the suspicious nodules found by CT scans are not really cancer.
Hip implant recalled. Local health plan executives score big bonuses. Institute for Systems Biology screens genomes to pinpoint disease genes.
Event includes live auction of handbags donated by celebrities such as Tina Fey and Rachael Ray and wines from 32 Northwest wineries.
Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia, preparing for and recovering from surgery, navigating health-related legal documents.
Diagnosed with breast cancer and no longer covered by her health insurance, Erica Rex married and moved to England to get care.
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center study.
Talks on natural medicine, cancer genetics, and cancer & sexuality
Information about cancer research “in language we can all understand.”
Putting off the first mammogram until age 50 could endanger the lives of black women.
Invisible Families: The homeless you don't see
They squeeze in with relatives, couch surf with friends or camp out in cars. More families are quietly becoming homeless, driven to the edge by a lack of jobs and affordable housing. The Seattle Times and its local news partners tackle the topic together. Project home
E-Health Records: Seattle is ahead of the curve
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