Posts tagged cancer

• Weight Lifting Provides Relief in Breast Cancer Survivors with Lymphedema

  David Mittleman | August 14, 2009 10:00 AM | 1 CommentLansing, MI Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Doctors once warned breast cancer patients with lymphedema to avoid weight lifting. Lymphedema is fluid buildup that causes swelling and is a common symptom in breast cancer patients who had their...

• Tanning Beds as Deadly as Arsenic

  David Mittleman | July 31, 2009 12:34 PM | 3 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Tanning bed users beware: international cancer experts have moved tanning beds and other sources of ultraviolet radiation into the top cancer-risk category—at par with arsenic and mustard gas....

• Regulators Discover "Rogue Cancer Unit" at Philadelphia V.A. Hospital

  David Mittleman | June 21, 2009 11:45 AM | 1 CommentLansing, MI Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Brachytherapy is a new technique to treat Prostate Cancer that has been utilized since 2002 at the Philadelphia Veterans’ Hospital. In the procedure, small metal seeds are permanently injected...

• Senate to Consider Giving FDA Authority Over Tobacco Products

  David Mittleman | June 02, 2009 1:58 PM | 1 CommentLansing, MI Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  In what could be another big blow to Big Tobacco, the Senate has voted to consider a measure that would permit the Food and Drug Administration to exercise greater oversight over the industry. The...

• Appeals Court Smokes Big Tobacco

  David Mittleman | May 23, 2009 12:24 PM | 2 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Miscellaneous
  

  The Federal Circuit Court for the District of Columbia has Big Tobacco reeling on its heels after a landmark decision released on Friday, May 22, 2009. In the U.S. Government’s decade long...

• Microsurgery after breast cancer treatment may reduce lymphedema effects

  David Mittleman | April 22, 2009 3:46 PM | 1 CommentLansing, MI Category: Miscellaneous
  

  As people all across the country prepare for various forms of breast cancer awareness activities, including Lansing’s Race for the Cure, a recent study indicates that microsurgery may reduce...

• Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz to Greet “A New Dawn for Justice” at MAJ Convention

  David Mittleman | April 16, 2009 9:15 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Miscellaneous
  

  The Michigan Association for Justice has announced that Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz will be the keynote speaker at its annual Convention, held on May 9 in Dearborn. The theme for the 64th...

• Toxic Chinese Sofas

  David Mittleman | April 14, 2009 11:57 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Toxic Substances
  

  In the latest scandal surrounding Chinese-made products, sofas from the country have been linked with causing severe allergic reactions. The anti-mold chemical, dimethyl fumarate, which is extremely...

• Asbestos Defendants Snatch Victim’s Body Following Funeral

  David Mittleman | March 12, 2009 9:57 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Toxic Substances
  

  While one New Jersey family was able to secure a key legal victory this week, the relatives of another Garden State man are outraged at the conduct of the defendants in his asbestos injury case. The...

• Gammagrams - Most Recent Tool To Help Diagnose Breast Cancer

  David Mittleman | February 18, 2009 9:13 AM | 0 CommentsLansing, MI Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Breast - specific gamma imaging - the gammagram - uses a radioactive injection that lights up tumor cells, which have high metabolic activity. Not enough studies have been performed to prove it...