September is Prostate Cancer Awareness Month and I am thinking what we can do to really shake things up -- to make people really *want* to participate and help wipe out this disease once and for all. We need to shock people into AWARENESS!!!. What a scandal it is that a doctor speaking about PC before an [...]
On August 9, Skip Ciccarelli, a 60-year-old prostate cancer survivor arrived at New York City’s Manhattan Kayak Company, located at Pier 66. He was greeted by almost nobody and without any representatives of the press to cover the end of his journey! Ciccarelli arrival at Pier 66 having completed his Olympian type marathon. His arrival [...]
I initially posted my previous message about depression and PC treatment on a site I have been frequenting which brings together people from diverse backgrounds. You might be interested to read the responses I got, which came from a broad spectrum of the PC community: patients and their partners, a surgeon, psychiatrist, psychologist, a number of patient advocates and [...]
As new treatments, drugs and medical devices come to market the FDA is charged with making sure that they are both safe and perform as represented. Products that come under review include items such as human and animal drugs, blood and other biological products, medical devices, and foods. The process of evaluating these products has [...]
Yesterday afternoon Senators Harkin and Specter introduced a landmark supplemental funding bill for the NIH. The Senator's bill proposes providing the National Cancer Institute with an additional $1.2 billion and the rest of the National Institutes of Health with $4 billion for FY 2008. This bill stems from their concern about the inadequate funding for [...]