I am in middle of doing a cheap, on-the-fly kitchen renovation so I don't have much time to talk, but I wanted to share this with you. It always bugs me how old folks are underrated. A doctor wrote an article (excerpts below) on the excellent Health Care Blog today (healthcareblog.com) about how doctors and patients [...]
One of my favorite reads is Dr. Kevin's blog (http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/, winner of numerous awards. Dr. Kevin writes about medical issues in a sometimes provocative but always entertaining way. Yesterday, I was pleased to see that the doc wrote about something of interest to us: "Men of any age can present with the symptoms of low testosterone - including [...]
There was something about PC that was befuddling the doctors. We know that prostate cancer needs testosterone in order to grow. So many men are treated with androgen-deprivation therapy in order to starve the tumor, but unfortunately, this just buys time for the patient. The cancer eventually becomes resistant to treatment. What puzzled scientists was how [...]
This is an excerpt from a hopeful article I came across in U.S. News and World Report. SUNDAY, May 18 (HealthDay News) -- A therapeutic vaccine to treat prostate cancer appears safe and may be effective, according to the results of an early trial. The vaccine could give hope to men with metastatic prostate cancer by activating [...]
If you are like me you are sitting around with your fingers crossed waiting for the cure. So I thought I would share with you excerpts from an article I received from a business publication. The cure is not here yet, but apparently they're working on it. (I am leaving the first paragraph in even [...]