Category: My lymphoma and related medical stuff

UW-Madison reports another stem cell breakthrough — chicagotribune.com "I think we're getting to a position where we can start to think about using these cells therapeutically," Duncan said. Alan Trounson, president of the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine, predicted the new method "will be recognized as another important step forward on reprogramming cells." Cell reprogramming…

An interesting six paragraph article from the excellent NY Times Health section.  Vital Signs – Exercise Helps After Heart Attack, as Long as It Continues – NYTimes.com “Cardiac rehabilitation is cheap,” said Dr. Margherita Vona, the lead author and director of cardiac rehabilitation at a clinic in Glion-sur-Montreux, Switzerland, “but the price of losing its benefits is high.…

The study below was widely reported yesterday. A year or two ago there was another in depth study, with results indicating that mammograms don't lower the death rate for breast cancer. Intuitively, it would seem that early detection of cancer should raise the survival rate. And of course other studies (for both prostate and breast…

This therapy seems very similar to my stem cell treatment. My stem cells were "pushed" out of my bone marrow into the bloodstream, and then harvested. After my high dose chemotherapy in January 2006, they were given back to me to rebuild my immune system. New stem cell treatment Stem cells transplanted into early-phase multiple…

Six months to a year. A good article in the NY Times a few days ago. Personal Best – Fitness Isn’t an Overnight Sensation – NYTimes.com CARL FOSTER, an exercise physiologist at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, was amused by ads for a popular piece of exercise equipment. Before-and-after photos showed pudgy men and…

Chocolate of course, has caffeine, in varying amounts depending on the type of chocolate. Bottom line – it can disrupt your sleep. Really? – Really? – Can Chocolate Be Disruptive to Sleep ? – Question – NYTimes.com

I suppose this is one of the main reasons that despite our greater expenditures for healthcare, we lag some other countries when it comes to various health categories – and life expectancy. Obese Americans now outweigh the merely overweight | U.S. | Reuters Numbers posted by the National Center for Health Statistics show that more than 34…

As I posted here My second annual New Year's interview with myself, I got a good report on Wednesday when I saw my lymphoma physician, Andrew Zelenetz, at Sloan. Bloodwork and CAT scan were normal, which I did expect, but was still nice to hear. He also is doing an immunoglobulin study, to see if weakened or…

both of these articles are from the NY Times health and finess section in the last week. The first one is by NYT reporter Gina Kolata, writing about her preparation for the NY Marathon, as she struggles with a stress fracture.   Coping (or Not) With Injuries in Training for Marathon – NYTimes.com And this…

From the NY Times health section: Shorter Radiation for Cancer of the Breast – NYTimes.com Three weeks of radiation treatment work just as well as the usual course of five weeks or more for women with early-stage breast cancers, Canadian researchers have reported, after monitoring a large group of patients for 12 years. The results,…