Tomorrow night, I'll be heading to a Washington, DC breast cancer newsie-blogger event called the Newsbabes Bash for Breast Cancer.
A bunch of local journalists and bloggers will be in attendance to kick off the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure in DC. For more details, check out these blogs:
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The Los Angeles Times's Health section runs a column called The Unreal World that keeps tabs on how well medical myths are portrayed on TV.
Breast cancer in men is not a myth. But, explaining who it affects and how male breast cancer is diagnosed and treated can veer from the facts, as the Times points out.
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I don't typically post about fundraising opportunities. There are, indeed, plenty of meaningful ways to contribute to cancer causes, and many of you have several other ways of finding out about them.
But, I want to point out Alicia Staley's $5 Twitter Challenge for a couple reasons:
Alicia is, as her blog conveys, an Awesome... Read more
Congrats to our very own Marisa Acocella Marchetto (aka Cancer Vixen), who was selected by NY 1 as the New Yorker of the week.
The TV station features Marisa in a video interview, highlighting her accomplishments through the Cancer Vixen Fund to bring free mammogram screening to underinsured women in New York City.
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Jill Biden, wife of Senator Joe Biden, has entered the spotlight in a big way.
Following yesterday's announcement that her husband was Obama's pick for vice president, the New York Times profiled the couple in a flattering love story that emphasized Jill's beauty and brains: "[Y]ou might call her drop-dead gorgeous"; Jill Biden (aka Dr.... Read more
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