The week I just had brings to mind one of my favorite songs of all time - Holding Back the Years by Simply Red, Lyrics by Mick Hucknall (Yeah, I love the Brand Nubian remake too.) Here are the lines Hucknall wrote over 20 years ago that sum it up: I'll keep holding on Holding, [...]
General cancer research has made great strides over the last few years. Over this past year, we have seen the first major advance in twenty years in kidney cancer; new treatment options for breast cancer, targeted therapies for head and neck cancers as well as a novel gene profiling test that can predict which patients [...]
Often, the FDA limits access to clinical trials to patients who have failed all other approved therapies. This means that we only evaluate potential new drugs on individuals who are already very sick and have been weakened by their disease as well as their prior treatments. Cancer cells "learn" how to survive treatments by mutating. [...]
A couple of years ago I had my first colonoscopy. No it's not typical for a guy in his mid-twenties to have the marginally annoying anal-probing procedure, but I did. There were two major reasons for me to get the ol' colon checked out: one was my family and the other was my family history. [...]
Last night I had the opportunity to see James Taylor in concert at Tanglewood in Massachusetts. Needless to say, it was an absolutely fantastic concert. When James came out on stage I was first hit by the fact that like all of us he has aged. He is still a very slim man; clearly he [...]