Last night was the CNN and You Tube Republican presidential debate. I was very disappointed with the quality of questions that they chose to ask the candidates. It seemed that the selection of videos was not as serious as I would liked to have seen. The selection leaned heavily to the dramatic and the absurd. [...]
Many people have been very excited about this last week’s scientific advance in creating cells that act like embryonic stem cells from skin cells. The enthusiasm about this discovery surrounds the possibility that embryos might not have to be destroyed to develop stem cells, which would remove the political controversy about stem cell research. Unfortunately, [...]
I have often written about stress and how important it is to reduce it in your life. Now there has been research that has linked the hormone epinephrine (also known as adrenalin) to actual changes in prostate and breast cancer cells. Exposure to increasing levels of epinephrine seems to make these cancer cells resistant to [...]
At some point in our lives we all are going to face death. For those of us who are current survivors of advanced prostate cancer our death may come from our cancer, or it could come from another unrelated cancer, or a heart problem or any number of other causes. One thing is guaranteed we [...]
Today I heard back from a representative of the FDA about my concern and complaints surrounding the treatment of the public at FDA advisory committee meetings (my post of 11-20-07). It was explained to me that at the time of the advisory committee meeting for Satraplatin when the public was relegated to the rear of [...]