Researchers have found an effective replacement for Pap smears - DNA tests.
A new eight-year study of 130,000 women in India financed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has found that a single screening with the DNA test beats all other methods (including Pap smears) at preventing advanced cancer and death.
Publishing their findings in The [...]
The March issue of The Southern Health Magazine was distributed along with today’s edition of The Southern Illinoisan newspaper.
Rhonda Ethridge, our design, production and art direction guru did a great job with the cover. I’d wondered what kind of image she would come up with for a subject like brain injuries. And she found something [...]
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Vern Horn, a guard at Shawnee Correctional Center, suffers from terminal cancer. When his condition worsened, his friends and co-workers decided to raise money to send him and his family to Hawaii – a trip Horn always wanted to make.
You can help Horn go to Hawaii by attending the fundraiser and [...]
Fifty-two year old Gayle Stearns, is one gutsy lady.
An ICU nurse at Memorial Hospital of Carbondale, for the past 25 years, she has seen her share of the critically ill and injured.
Diagnosed with breast cancer at age 42, Gayle remained strong, refusing to dwell on her condition.
She just wanted to do what she needed to [...]
It’s October. Its breast cancer awareness month.
Here’s a monetary reason for you to go get that mammogram.
The Blagojevich administration has teamed up with Walgreens to offer $50,000 in gift cards to women who sign up for the Illinois Breast and Cervical Cancer Program during October 2008 and schedule a screening for breast cancer.
And get this: If you [...]
This afternoon, I visited George Kao. M.D., radiation oncologist and medical director of the radiation-oncology department at Memorial Hospital of Carbondale.
He patiently answered a bunch of questions I had and then asked if I’d like to see the radiation room. I said yes of course.
As I entered the [...]
The other day, I had a fascinating conversation with Marsha Ryan, M.D., J.D., F.A.C.S., surgeon at The Breast Center in Carbondale.
I asked her how hard it was to be the first to tell her patients they had breast cancer.
“It’s not easy breaking such news,” Ryan admitted. “You have to be prepared to break it. [...]
Breast Cancer Awareness Month starts tomorrow. Do you have a tee-shirt as yet commemorating the month?
Herrin resident and breast cancer survivor, Peggy Riley makes special tee-shirts in her basement, with the slogan “Just Cure It!”
Riley, a mother of two children, has been cancer-free for three and a half years now and will celebrate her 46th birthday [...]
Last evening, I interviewed Ronald Mattison, M.D., F.A.C.S., medical director of The Breast Center in Carbondale for a story I’m working on.
In response to what inspires him, Mattison, a busy breast surgeon, told me his patients are often an inspiration.
They may be doing badly, but are still so positive,” he said “I have one patient [...]
What is the world coming to when you can no longer trust your moisturizer?
A study published by Rutgers University researchers in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology found that certain moisturizers promoted cancer growth, in gene-altered hairless mice.
The four moisturizers tested in the study were:
1. Dermabase, by Paddock Laboratories
2. Dermovan from Healthpoint Ltd
3. Eucerin Original Moisturizing Cream from Beiersdorf [...]
