Stomach Cancer

Herbert

Recently I blogged about a new project that I am starting called $2 portraits. The idea is that I will offer $2 to anyone who asks me for money from now on in exchange for their portrait. Earlier today while I was having lunch with my friend Hemant outside of the Coffee Bean in Embarcadero 4 Herbert approached me asking for $2. Herbert told me that he was dying and would be dead in the next couple of days. He said that he had advanced stage stomach and colon cancer and had to wear a diaper. Herb...

Getting rid of bacteria cuts stomach cancer risk

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - People who have surgery to remove stomach cancer can cut the risk that it will return by getting antibiotics to eliminate a type of bacteria infecting the stomach's lining, researchers said on Thursday.

Health Points: Friday

Experts believe that America’s response to soaring food and fuel costs will eventually be to eat less. Robert Roy Britt of LiveScience explains: Roughly 19 percent of U.S. energy consumption goes toward producing and supplying food, David Pimentel and his colleagues at Cornell University write in the current issue of the journal Human Ecology. Considering that the average American consumes an estimated 3,747 calories a day, — at least 1,200 more than health experts advise — the researcher...

New Research From Rhode Island Hospital May Help Predict Outcomes For Stomach Cancer Patients

Researchers at Rhode Island Hospital have identified two potential molecular markers that may predict outcomes for patients with stomach cancer, one of the most common and fatal cancers worldwide. Acc ...

Fat stomach raises pancreatic cancer risk (MSNBC.com)

Obese women who carry most of their extra weight around the stomach are 70 percent more likely to develop pancreatic cancer, an international team of researchers reported. Source : MSNBC.com (subscribe) Explore : Cancers, Health

Women: Obesity Boosts Pancreatic Cancer Risk

Carrying extra weight around the stomach ups a woman’s pancreatic cancer risk by 70 percent. Reuters reports: The findings suggest are some of the first evidence that the link between obesity and pancreatic cancer is as strong in women as in men, Juhua Luo of Sweden's Karolinska Institute and colleagues reported in the British Journal of Cancer. "We found that the risk of developing pancreatic cancer was significantly raised in obese postmenopausal women who carry most of their excess weight ...

The hottest curry ever? Why not.

You're being a little dramatic: That's what I think, anyway. Courtesy pjryan3“I don’t know, mate. I was just walking down the street thinking ‘Oy! It’s been a long time since I’ve had burning diarrhea!’ And then I saw the sign at the Cinnamon Club: hottest curry in the world. It was like God gave me a gift card for free burning diarrhea!” “I had some bad chicken in Bath last week, and was fortunate enough to end up with sever stomach pain and vomiting. But with five days left in ...

Device blocking stomach nerve signals shows promise in obesity

A new implantable medical device, developed in collaboration with Mayo Clinic researchers, shows promise as a reversible and less extreme alternative to existing bariatric surgeries, as per findings reported in the current issue of the journal Surgery In a six-month open label trial involving three medical centers in Australia, Mexico and Norway, the 31 obese participants who received the vagal nerve blocking device, also called VBLOCTM vagal blocking treatment, lost an average of nearly 15 per...

Remind Me to Tell You About the Greatest "Hmmmm..." Comment in the History of This Blog.

My test results have been showing up online for a couple of days now. I've stopped googling the results, but I have been checking them out to see if any are flagged "abnormal." It's frustrating knowing the results, but not being able to talk to my doctor about them until THE END OF JULY. The ones that I've been the most worried about (pap smear/uterine biopsy) are not tests that post online. I was given a phone number to call to check on those. They told me that they'd be ready in 2-3 weeks. Be...

Why I Love Being a Chiropractor

By Sharon Gorman, DC Oh boy where do I start. I love being a Chiropractor because I have the opportunity to change people's lives by sharing the truth with them about Chiropractic. I love when the lightbulb goes off over their head. I love it even more when they demonstrate that they get it by bringing in their whole family and by staying under regular care year after year. I love sharing Chiropractic because I believe that every man, woman and child should know the truth and then be able to mak...