Nadler: On Taxes GOP Are a Bunch of Gangsters

One Man's Battle Against Breast Cancer
By Phil Pilato The doctors at Sloan-Kettering had told me I would be able to get a time for the daily radiation treatments within a three-hour block - I had picked between 8 am and 11 am. I was told my appointment was 8:30. Click Here to Read Phil’s Last Blog Great I thought I was the first or second appointment of the day. No they corrected me, the appointment was for 8:30 p.m. I went nuts. Thats ridiculous I said. They agreed but said there was nothing they could do...

A 'Promise' spurred Susan G. Komen, breast cancer fight
In 1982, Nancy Brinker started a foundation to fight Breast Cancer in memory of her sister, Susan G. Komen , who had died from the disease two years earlier. Back then, Brinker says, her only assets were $200 in cash and a shoebox of names of potential Donors. Since then, Susan G. Komen for the Cure has raised more than $1.5 Billion, becoming the world's largest Non-profit source of money to combat Breast Cancer, says Brinker, 63. USA Today's Liz Szabo talked to Brinker, who survived...

New Microfluidic Device Helps Identify and Capture Breast Cancer Cells
Device can identify the protein HER2 status and isolate circulating tumor cells Researchers have developed a new disposable device that could help identify patients with advanced Breast Cancer awaiting drug Therapy with trastuzumab, and capture Cancer cells that have an abnormal amount of the protein HER2 (typically found in aggressive Breast Cancers). Benjamin Thierry, of the Ian Wark Research Institute at the University of South Australia, along with his colleagues, has created an elastic,...

Paul medical group: HIV doesn’t cause AIDS, abortion increases breast cancer risk

The smug morality of breast cancer month
For over 25 years now, thanks to the efforts of organizations like the Susan G. Komen Foundation   and the Avon Foundation for Women , one of the most pervasive -- and deadliest -- diseases to strike women has become an important topic for research, detection and public awareness. No doubt all that advocacy has played a part in the sharp decline in Breast Cancer rates over the past decade, an encouraging sign for all of us who possess Breasts -- and for our daughters. But as Breast...

U-M stem cell trial promising . Scientists hopeful clinical research to be shown at World Stem Cell Summit will produce breast cancer treatment
The trials are being conducted on women with advanced stage Breast Cancer and attempt to target the Cancer's Stem Cells, which are believed to be resistant to traditional therapies and the fuel behind Cancer's spread. By using experimental drugs to block these Cancer Stem Cells, doctors hope the tumors will shrink or at least stop spreading and will lead to better ways to treat -- and possibly cure -- the disease that is the nation's second-leading cause of death. The research will be...

What's an "Essential" Benefit?
Let's get something out of the way. The accusation that the Affordable Care Act will determine which medical treatments, procedures, tests and drugs Americans will be allowed to get is false. Rather, the Government will continue to decide which services Medicare will reimburse for, while also deciding what Care private insurers will be required to reimburse for. This seems basic, but I never pass up the opportunity to explain the distinction between the Government denying Care which the...

Strides Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Strides Breast Cancer Awareness Month

A.M. Vitals: McDonald's Says it Needs Health Insurance Waiver
By Katherine Hobson McDonald’s Seeks Waiver : McDonald’s says it will have to look for alternative Health-insurance Coverage for Hourly Workers if federal Regulators won’t exempt its limited-benefit plans from a provision of Health-care overhaul, the WSJ reports . The new Health law requires large employers to spend at least 85% of Premiums on benefits, rather than administrative, costs, but McDonald’s says its “mini-med” plans, which cap annual benefits,...

Legacy, part 2
I would want people to say I raised two very happy sons who can weather storms in life and come out on top. That I taught Special Needs Children who sometimes went on to college and became teachers, themselves, and VIP's in financial corporations. That I fought City Hall and, in effect, won many concessions. That I survived Breast Cancer, congestive heart failure and a stroke and went on for many more years. That I would live on in my Children and Grandchildren and their efforts to improve...

Race for the Cure set for Sunday
HUNT VALLEY, MD. — Baltimore County will once again be the host of the annual Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure. The event raises money for Breast Cancer research and support programs for those affected by the disease. Runners from around the state will meet starting at 6 a.m. Sunday in the parking lots of the Executive Plaza in Hunt Valley. The 5K race starts at 8 a.m. Baltimore County police will be on hand to keep runners, volunteers and spectators safe. There will be numerous road...

More mixed messages on mammograms
Remember how a year ago a panel of experts recommended against mammogram screenings before the big 5-0? Well, now yet another group of smart people in lab coats is changing things up on you and suggesting that maybe 40-somethings should start getting Mammograms after all. The new study comes by way of Sweden, where some counties provide screenings to women in their 40s and some do not; researchers compared Breast Cancer deaths between those two populations and found that women were 26 percent...

Michael Douglas: 'I got whacked big time'
'It really knocks you out. You just never think it is going to be you. But I'll beat this. The tumour is shrinking. The odds are good. I'm not dealing with mortality issues until I hear otherwise': Michael Douglas on throat Cancer Michael Douglas doesn't look like a man facing the toughest battle of his life. He's a little thinner perhaps, but surprisingly upbeat despite having been diagnosed with stage four throat Cancer, for which he is undergoing a gruelling combination of Chemotherapy and...

Iowa Passes The MMJ Doobie
The idea in Iowa to have medical use of Marijuana allowed is being passed around like a joint in Chemotherapy room. The Iowa Pharmacy Board has rejected a request that it write the rules allowing Marijuana to be used for medical purposes. This is the second time theyve rejected the request from a Marijuana Activist. In February they passed the political doobie to the legislature, who took a quick hit and passed it back to the Pharmacy Board. With another turn at the not burning end the...

The Latest Attack Ad in Nevada Senate Race
Nevadas Senate race received another Attack Ad Thursday, when the Incumbent, Harry Reid, released a spot criticizing his opponent, Sharron Angle, for opposing mandatory coverage for Mammograms. The 30-second spot opens with footage of Barbara Trznadel, a Breast Cancer survivor who was given her diagnosis in 2007 after a mammogram detected a malignant tumor. In the Assembly, Sharron Angle tried to Repeal the law that makes Insurance Companies cover Mammograms, a narrator says, before...

Reid Ad Attacks Angle On Mammogram Insurance Coverage: 'More Women Will Die' (VIDEO)
The Harry Reid campaign has a new ad against Sharron Angle, continuing their recent line of attack over her opposition to mandating that Insurance Companies cover various procedures -- in this case, Mammograms. The ad features a woman named Barbara Trznadel, talking about how a mammogram detected her Breast Cancer. Then the narrator cuts in: "In the Assembly, Sharron Angle tried to Repeal the law that makes Insurance Companies cover Mammograms. She wouldn't even cover Mammograms." The ad then...

"Real Changes that Will Benefit Americans"
Posted by Erin Edgerton on September 28, 2010 at 07:14 PM EDT To view this content, please download the Adobe Flash Player Download Video: mp4 (160MB) | MP3 (33MB) First Lady Michelle Obama held a conference call with nurses from across the country today to discuss the new Patient’s Bill of Rights and other important benefits from the Affordable Care Act.  Joined by Dr. Mary Wakefield, Administrator for the Health Resources and Services Administration, and six...

Medical experts doubt Lockerbie bomber's prognosis
Washington — Scotland's prognosis that the Lockerbie bomber had three months to live was not justified, medical experts told Congress on Wednesday, and a senator questioned whether the process was deliberately manipulated to pave the way for the bomber's release from Prison last year. Abdel Baset al-Megrahi served eight years of a life sentence for the Dec. 21, 1988, bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, which killed all 259 people on board, most of them Americans, and 11 people on the...

Zack Cooper: The Case for End-of-Life Care Gets Stronger
It doesn't get any tougher than this: discussions revolving around end of life Care, treating patients with a terminal illness with dignity, and the costs associated with intensive medical treatments are staggeringly difficult. However, every now and then, an article is published that fundamentally changes the status quo. A recent piece by Jennifer Temel and colleagues , appearing in the August 18th edition of the New England Journal of Medicine , is just that kind of paper. The article...

Woman in Conway ad talks about "off the wall" Paul
Related: A Louisville woman who appears in a new Jack Conway ad reiterated her concerns about Republican Candidate Rand Paul during a conference call with reporters, Wednesday.   Paul is seen in the ad suggesting a $2000 Medicare deductible as a way to address the program's financial viability and the Cost of Health Care in the United States.   "Rand Paul is off the wall with a $2,000 deductible," Kay Ferguson Armstrong, a Louisville Democrat and Jack Conway...

Michelle Obama The America Hater Promoting Obamacare Law To Nurses
Michelle Obama promoting new Health Care law to nurses. Conference call transcript Chicago Sun Times Washington It was not official political business--but the conference call hosted by First Lady Michelle Obama on Tuesday could help Democrats in the November mid-term Elections. Mrs. Obama--with Dr. Mary Wakefield, the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration, briefed about 1,000 nurses on the new benefits of the Health Care law--six months old this week. THE White...