I subscribe to Google Alerts, a free service that e-mails the subscriber when a chosen search term appears online. This is a fascinating service; I can choose to be alerted to blogs, to news sources where my term has appeared, to anywhere on the Web… or all of the above. Check it out: google.com/alerts. It’s a neat way to read all the latest news and opinions on, say, chocolate ice cream. Or Harley-Davidson. Or breast cancer.
Breast cancer alerts usually appear when a study is about to...
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Oh please. That is my unvarnished reaction to Katie Couric’s on-air mammogram last week. The poster girl of colon cancer awareness... Read more »
It's the last week of summer, and that means one thing to me - Family Camp. For almost 15 years my family has been going to a YMCA camp on... Read more »
I received a call recently from my friend, Debbie. The purpose of the call was to wish me a happy birthday, but the call morphed into a... Read more »
What Will it be Like When I Die? “I have COPD. What will it be like when I die? Will I just struggle for every breath and gasp until I... Read more »
Dr. Jerri Nielsen FitzGerald, the physician who treated her own breast cancer while stationed at the South Pole in 1999 has died at age 57.... Read more »
The singer and actor Jerry Reed, best known for his role as "The Snowman" in the three Smokey and the Bandit movies, has died of complications from... Read more »
New research published in the British Medical Journal has found that people who have suffered a heart attack should be given balloon angioplasty as... Read more »
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