New eBook: Top 2013 Breast Cancer Research Papers Medivizor experts selected some of the most important breast cancer research papers published in 2013 and compiled the service’s summaries and interpretations of them into an eBook. This eBook is now available to be downloaded free. Examples of research included in the eBook: Using MRI to detect...
Read MorePowered by Hope, Anything is Possible: Colorectal Cancer Awareness
“I share my story and speak to save lives.” “I thought I was fully awake, but I wasn’t. I thought I was open to living…the reality is that even after diagnosis, I was not living fully awake. What I’m doing differently now is having this diagnosis, really putting it out there, and sharing life and what is going on.” Endurance In your...
Read MoreMETAvivor, Kohls & The Elephant In the Pink Room
In November 2013, Medivizor started a campaign of Thanks, donating funds to four organizations that do amazing amounts of good for people with breast, colon, prostate cancers and diabetes. One of those organizations was METAvivor. METAvivor’s Mission METAvivor’s mission is: METAvivor exists to sustain hope for those living with metastatic breast...
Read More7 Reasons Why Patients Blog
Why do patients blog? Why do they reveal personal information and medical experiences on the Internet? 1) To Share Information Annette McKinnon, author of ‘Here’s Your Gold Watch, Rheutired,’ started her blog “to inform people about things I learned that seem obvious to me now, but were hard to learn.” Carolyn Thomas, author of “My Heart...
Read MoreE-Caregiving: Dr. Catherine Rose and Alexis (Part 2)
A recent Pew Research Center survey indicates that in just 3 years the number of adults caring for an adult or child with serious illness has grown from 30% in 2010 to 39% in 2013. Many of them are involved in e-caregiving. Yet, like so many, Catherine Rose didn’t know until 2010 that she had been an e-caregiver. “I always felt that I was really bossy...
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