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• Thought for the Day: Thinking about lung cancer

  Published: August 6, 2007, 2:00 am

  Tags: Access, Booklet, Cancer, Day, Diagnosis, For, Free, Killer, Lung, National, Online, Partnership, Resource, The, Thought

  called Living With a Diagnosis of Lung Cancer. The booklet features basic questions about what a lung cancer diagnosis means."When people hear the words, 'You have lung cancer,' their mind starts racing, and they hear or remember very little of what comes next," said Dr. Joan Schiller, M.D., president of the National Lung Cancer

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• Diva Diagnosis: What's That Lump In Amy Winehouse's Armpit?

  Published: August 6, 2007, 12:00 pm

  Tags: Amy Winehouse, Diva Diagnosis, Idolator, Splash, Top, Webmd

  [Baltimore, MD; August 4. Image via Splash]Another week, another strange sighting on our favorite singer of the 21st century, Amy Winehouse. Going through the paparazzi photos we love to hate this... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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• Texas Longhorns coach takes leave to tackle prostate cancer

  Published: August 7, 2007, 5:00 am

  Tags: Absence, Cancer, Coach, Detection, Diagnosis, Early, Football, Ken, Leave, Longhorns, Prostate, Rucker, Surgery, Texas

  following his recent diagnosis of prostate cancer. Rucker will have surgery on August 27. He wll keep coaching until this date.Rucker, a 33-year coaching veteran, fully intends on returning to coaching this season."I plan to be back this season," he says. "No doubt about it; 100 percent."Rucker's prognosis is good -- thanks to early

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• Would you participate?

  Published: August 9, 2007, 12:41 pm

  Tags: Environment, Cause, Baby, Q Amp Amp, Health, Siblings, Parenting, Family, Asd, Aspergers, Autism, Babies, Children, Diagnosis, Education, Family, Health, Mothers, Parenting, Pdd Nos, Young Children

  The University of California at Davis M.I.N.D. Institute is conducting a study into the origins of autism by having expecting mothers of one autistic child monitor their diet, as well as “anything else that may get into” their bodies, from make-up to chemicals. The August 8th KCRA News notes that even the carpeting in participating

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• A Little Dab Will Do Ya ...

  Published: August 13, 2007, 10:33 am

  Tags: Diagnosis, Cervical Cancer, Reproductive Health, Resource Poor Nations

  [cross-posted from GCM News ... sign up for the Global Campaign for Microbicides newsletter at http://global-campaign.org] A simple technique using nothing more than cotton swabs and vinegar could help prevent the deaths of more than 250,000 women a year. Cervical cancer a sexually transmitted disease caused by the human papilloma virus (HPV)

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• Reader's Questions: Answers Sought!

  Published: August 14, 2007, 8:47 am

  Tags: Philippines, Asia, Race Amp Amp Ethnicity, Diagnosis, Psychology, Asd, Aspergers, Autism, Children, Education, Family, Health, Pdd Nos, Philippines, Schools, Therapy, Treatment

  Back on July 18th, Victoria Elizaga left a comment on the post Autism Consciousness Week in the Philippines. Victoria, I regret it has taken me so long to respond—-here is the comment: “Hello everyone! I'm marrid to a Phillipeno and our youngest has just been diagnosed with ADHA. My mother and I both have dyslexia to some some exent,

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• Dude Diagnosis: Meet Mark Ames: Hater of Adam Levine And Sufferer Of "Johnny Depp Complex"

  Published: August 22, 2007, 9:30 am

  Tags: Adam Levine, Dude Diagnosis, Mark Ames, Maroon Five, Top

  Today's New York Observer introduces us to our new crush, Mark Ames, the editor of Moscow-based magazine eXile, who wrote the story that was circulating around the Internet last week in which Adam... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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• On Autism Genetics

  Published: August 27, 2007, 7:41 am

  Tags: Cause, Environment, Diagnosis, Genetics, Science, Alzheimers, Asd, Aspergers, Autism, Causes, Children, Dna, Education, Family, Genetics, Health, Heart Disease, Obesity, Pdd Nos

  and feared medical diagnosis” and a “cruel condition,” TimesOnline makes connections between new findings on autism and genetics published earlier this year. From these studies on genetics, it is suggested that autism may not be a single disorder The first genetics study was conducted by the AGP and involved over 1,000

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• Is ADD/ADHD an adaptation to today's technophilic culture?

  Published: August 27, 2007, 2:20 pm

  Tags: Technology, Diagnosis, Add, Adhd, Asd, Aspergers, Autism, Children, Digital, Education, Family, Health, Ila, Longshoremen, Pdd Nos, Technology, Unions

  Is Mild ADHD a Favorable Evolutionary Adaptation to Technology? asks Russell Shaw in the August 27th Huffington Post: I think what he was trying to get at is that video games, texting, and other online applications are best performed by minds with the circuitry to jump at a nanosecond’s notice back and forth from screen to screen and

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• Diva Diagnosis: Oh No: Does Amy Winehouse Have Syphilis?

  Published: August 29, 2007, 4:30 pm

  Tags: Amy Winehouse, Diva Diagnosis, Idolator, Webmd

  Amy Winehouse is on vacation (and, apparently, not showing up to the VMAs!), as you may know. We saw this picture of her relaxing and we thought, how nice! And then we looked closer. Amy seems to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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• Today, I am grateful

  Published: August 30, 2007, 5:00 am

  Tags: Breast, Cancer, Chemotherapy, Clean, Clear, Diagnosis, Disease, Grateful, Growth, Herceptin, Lumpectomy, Lymph, Margins, Mass, Nodes, Prognosis, Radation, Spread, Therapy, Today, Tumor

  that filled my days between diagnosis and prognosis, I had no direction. I had only my wandering mind for company. The waiting really is the hardest part. Once faced with the specifics of our diseases, we can take action.My cancer had not spread. My lymph nodes were clean; my margins clear. I still had to endure chemotherapy, radiation, and a

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• Woman commits suicide after cancer diagnosis

  Published: August 31, 2007, 7:54 am

  Tags: Bad News, Badnews, Depression, Diagnosis, Illness, Psychological, Suicide

  Daily newsReceiving a cancer diagnosis is a huge shocker, and like grief, people respond in different ways. But I hope it's not common for people to respond like this woman in Quebec City, who committed suicide by setting herself on fire on the day her chemo treatments were set to begin. She burned herself beyond recognition in a car alongside

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• Diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder Rises in US Children

  Published: September 4, 2007, 1:43 pm

  Tags: Epidemic, Medicine, Psychiatry, Health, Adolescence, Asd, Aspergers, Autism, Bipolar, Children, Depression, Diagnosis, Drugs, Education, Family, Health, Medication, Parenting, Pdd Nos, Psychiatry, Teenagers

  in which a doctor recorded a diagnosis of bipolar disorder increased from 20,000 in 1994 to 800,000 in 2003: Many experts theorize that the jump reflects that doctors are more aggressively applying the diagnosis to children, and not that the incidence of the disorder has increased. But the magnitude of the increase surprises many psychiatrists.

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• Autism and Unusual Facial Asymmetry?

  Published: September 10, 2007, 6:09 am

  Tags: Peter Hammond, Autism Diagnosis, Unusual Facial Asymmetry, Autism Disorder

  is designed to assist diagnosis of a variety of genetic disorders including autism.As described in Innovations Report:The specially written software is based on dense surface modelling techniques developed at UCL and compares the child's face to groups of individuals with known conditions and selects which syndromes look most similar. In

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• Autism and Unusual Facial Asymmetry Controversy

  Published: September 11, 2007, 6:39 am

  Tags: Autism Diagnosis, Autism Disorder, Autism Awareness, Professor Hammond

  conference, "This is not diagnosis. The diagnosis is done by a clinician and a molecular geneticist doing the genetic testing."Another paper had reported on the program somewhat differently claiming that the program could detect autism and would revolutionize autism diagnosis. Professor Hammond was very upset and canceled a scheduled BBC

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