‘What? Haven’t cured cancer yet?’ Archives
PROGRESS AGAINST PANCREATIC AND ORAL CANCER
Oncology: Pancreatic Cancer. Head/Neck Cancer What's your favorite cancer? I bet it isn't pancreatic cancer. The request queue for cancer's pretty short. But the least popular members of this rather unpopular group of diseases may be things like the oral cancers (head and neck), pancreatic, and lung cancer. Course I haven't taken a [...]
A Home Kit For Cancer Detection?
BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH: Do-It-Yourself Medicine TEST YOURSELF FOR CANCER? My dad was SO proud that he was one of the first to drive an automobile. But, you know what? He got to drive a car his entire adult life. The cars got better and better. But he never had to learn how to drive a rocket ship. It never even came up. Now we have ALL [...]
Smokers Are Dumb, Dumb, Dumb!
SUBSTANCE ABUSE: Smoker Brain. What's science GOOD for, you may ask? I dunno, I may answer. But maybe it could serve to humiliate people who are already miserable and make them feel worse. A (smug and self satisfied?) study led by Dr. Mark Weiser (Sheba Medical Center) concludes that the higher your IQ, the less likely you are to [...]
The Oh So Very Stubborn Anterior Cruciate Ligament
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rubber_slippers_in_italy/ / CC BY-ND 2.0 Orthopedic Surgery: Knee. Have you ever heard the term "Anterior Cruciate Ligament?" I sure hope not. It's one part of the most complicated thing in the world - probably the most complicated thing in the whole UNIVERSE - the knee. And when the ACL [...]
Cancer Superweapons
RadiationTherapy: A Life Worth Living Cancer. It seems so somebody-else-but-not-me. And yet.. you're the one in the back-flapper gown. Crappy, expensive, uncomfortable, inconvenient, and, potentially deadly, cancer is just a THING now. It CAN take you down but, mostly, it's a bunch of medicine that you're not gonna [...]
Pancreatic Cancer And Libraries and Whatnot
photo courtesy of Creative Commons http://www.flickr.com/photos/timetrax/ / CC BY-SA 2.0 LibaryScience:The Future Of Libaries Books are being digitized. Google's taking the lead. Having already digitized several million books, Google hopes to become a digital "Library of Alexandria", a modest claim since the collection of the ancient [...]
