Flu tracking experts say technology, like online shopping and scanning at tollbooths, is reducing our exchange of money and, therefore our exposure to the flu virus. But, there are other ways to spread the flu—and doctors say the key to staying healthy may be debugging flu myths. Myth 1: One big myth is that you…
More than 2500 breast cancer patients have passed through Dr. S. David Nathanson’s operating rooms over the course of his 40-year career. Though science cannot explain it, Dr. Nathanson, one of America’s Top Oncologists, says intangible traits like courage, persistence, faith and hope have proven essential prescriptions in the treatment process. Without over-the-counter answers to…
Knowing one in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime, yet only 10 percent of breast cancer sufferers have a genetic history of the disease, LUNA, the makers of whole nutrition bars for women®, and the Breast Cancer Fund (BCF) today announced the results of a national survey and launch of…
In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month the Emerald Dream Team, headed by Lana Fuchs of Lana Fuchs Couture, in association with Vicki Tashman of Pink-Link, is pleased to announce a National Search for 12 women who have been diagnosed with breast cancer and have a compelling story to tell. The women chosen will be…
To those who think their health matters to someone else, Taylor Grant has one thing to say: “You are on your own.” Once this is understood, we’re ready take responsibility for our own health. It won’t be easy: The system is broken. We live in a world of misdiagnoses and mistakes where doctors call their…
“You have breast cancer.” The words hang in the air in the sterile coldness of an examination room. The first reaction is often disbelief; the second, “Am I going to survive? What do I do now?” Once a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer, she usually has very little time—often just two weeks—to make a…