“Rollercoaster: How a man can survive his partner’s breast cancer” is a comprehensive memoir-chronicle and guide to scientific research, meds and where to get help — and can aid female patients and caregivers even though it’s geared toward male caregivers.
Additional “Rollercoaster…” blog items can be found on the VitalityPress website.
Woody Weingarten is an expectant father again — as an octogenarian. He expects his latest “baby” — an anthology of his newspaper columns, The Roving I — to be “born” shortly before his 85th birthday, Sept. 25. This will be his third literary effort, the first two...
Is seeking medical advice online normally a good idea? According to Dr. Jen Gunter, an ob/gyn who practices in San Francisco and who gained some degree of fame from repeatedly disputing A-list actress Gwyneth Paltrow's claims about benefits provided by her Goop...
The headline read, "Companies need to care for their caregivers." And the subhead stated unequivocally that "supporting your workers is good for business." Those words summed up a vintage column in the AARP Bulletin written by the organization's chief executive...
A new study shows that an experimental drug combo that controls hormones may halt the progression of prostate cancer. Dr. Chris Sweeney A clinical trial led by Dr. Christopher Sweeney at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, according to a story in the...
An aggressive new therapy that attacks an especially perilous early-stage breast cancer is ready for use on patients.
That, at least, is what’s cited in an October-November AARP Magazine story regarding a type of cancer known as HER2+ER+.
The multi-disciplinary therapy was first proven beneficial in later stages of the disease, says the piece.
Best-kept secret? That 16 million men in America are caregivers, about 40% of total, AARP reveals Caregiving. That’s the main theme of “Rollercoaster: How a man can survive his breast cancer,” a VitalityPress book that I, Woody Weingarten, aimed at male caregivers....
Phone calls offering a free cancer screening are most likely to be a scam, AARP Bulletin details Beware. That was the intriguing first word of a headline in an AARP Bulletin last year, a copy of which I just dug out of a manila folder that had literally fallen...
Cancer prevention can be bettered by narrowing screenings, doing a Mediterranean diet, tracking genes Smarter prevention is helping more Americans beat the odds of getting cancer. That's the gist of a story by Marygrace Taylor in a Parade magazine some time ago — a...
Yellowed Time magazine piece shows how a patient may improve your breast-cancer treatment Some perceptions hold up a long time. Time magazine, under the rubric "Frontiers of Medicine," ran a story nearly three years ago that's clearly still valid today. The piece was...
Top court in California rejects Monsanto appeal in case where jury ruled that herbicide caused cancer The California Supreme Court has turned down both defendant and plaintiff appeals in a case where a jury decided the weed-killer Roundup was the reason the defendant...