Covina school’s kids ‘Shave for the Brave’ to raise funds for 5-year-old with cancer

April 18, 2012

You would never know Joaquin Diaz has cancer. The shaggy-haired 5-year-old races after his older brother, teasing 7-year-old Rafael about his newly shaved head. But it’s because of Joaquin’s diagnosis — Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia — that Rafael and 31 other kids and moms either shaved or donated their hair at a Shave for the Brave [...]

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John Theurer Cancer Center Partners with Head and Neck Cancer Alliance to Offer Free Screenings on May 1

April 17, 2012

Get a quick, Free and Painless 10-Minute Check-up that could Save Your Life! John Theurer Cancer Center at HackensackUMC, one of the nation’s 50 best cancer centers, is partnering with the Head and Neck Cancer Alliance to bring the community free cancer screenings in observance of the 15th Annual Oral, Head and Neck Cancer Awareness [...]

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Link Found Between Vegetables and Decreased Risk of Breast Cancer

April 17, 2012

Posted on Friday, Mar. 7, 2008 — 8:55 AM When your mother told you to eat your vegetables it appears that maternal wisdom had a scientific basis. Researchers with Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center and the Shanghai Cancer Institute in China have discovered a possible link between a diet rich in certain vegetables and a decreased risk [...]

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Why would a Wiggle faint? Actor’s story

April 17, 2012

By Rita Rubin The original Yellow Wiggle is back, but he’ll never be free of the disorder that forced him to stop Wiggling five years ago. Greg Page, 40, a.k.a. Yellow Wiggle, left the “The Wiggles,” the wildly popular kids’ singing group he helped found 21 years ago, because of symptoms related to orthostatic intolerance, [...]

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Sex in San Diego: The Absurdity of Having a Male Gynecologist

April 17, 2012

by Abby Normal I feel myself up quite regularly. It’s quite natural, really as most medical resources say I’m supposed to do a monthly breast self-examination starting after the age of 20. Granted, there was few-year period where I neglected my cancer detecting duties, but I can officially tell you I’m back on track. I [...]

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Translators fight the fatal effects of the language gap

April 17, 2012

Lori Thicke had an epiphany in Thange in eastern Kenya when she saw Aids orphans playing in front of posters with advice on Aids prevention. “The posters carried excellent advice, but they were in English, a language that people didn’t understand,” she said. What was the use of this information provided by well-meaning NGOs, she [...]

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Tutor donates fees to MS Society (From Oxford Mail)

April 16, 2012

Tutor donates fees to MS Society 2:10pm Thursday 5th April 2012 in News by Amanda Williams Chris Sivewright is on a mission a tutor whose brother and sister have multiple sclerosis is making an Easter gift to support sufferers. Chris Sivewright will donate fees he makes from tutoring in business and economics this Easter to [...]

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Mahaska Health Partnership Warns about Ticks

April 16, 2012

MAHASKA COUNTY – Mahaska Health Partnership Public Health cautions you to protect yourself against tick bites. “It’s not just spring flowers that came out early this year due to our unseasonably mild winter, ticks have also become active in recent weeks,” MHP Public Health Coordinator Patty Malloy, RN, said. “It’s important to protect yourself because [...]

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CDC announces new autism rate: 1 in 88

April 16, 2012

What would you do if you saw 1 in 88 children walking around with their hair on fire? It would likely unnerve you, to say the least, and you’d probably be compelled to search for an explanation, asking everyone from doctors to scientists and even your next door neighbor: “What’s going on with our children?! [...]

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Mom With Cancer Chooses Baby’s Life Over Her Own

April 16, 2012

As mothers, all we want is for our kids to be happy and healthy, right? And I think it’s safe to say that we’d do pretty much anything in the world to ensure their well being and safety, even if it means putting ourselves in harm’s way. A woman in the U.K. named Sarah Brook [...]

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