The Navajo Sugar Monster Long ago the Holy People predicted that a monster would take over the Navajos. Our mothers and fathers would change…No longer were man and woman together. One after another this monster ate away their faces. It gnawed away Navajo identity….Everything turned from light to dark….Words ceased to exist. The Holy People begin to...
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Caregiver – you are not alone! If you’re a caregiver and you are wondering where the other caregivers are, all you have to do is look to your left or right. New research from the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project, tells us that in three years the number of adults working to care for an adult or child with serious illness...
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A Google search for information on diabetes results in 267 million results (!). Another for type II diabetes gives 92 million results. Plowing through the first few pages you’ll see sites from newspapers, advertisers and blogs. How will you know which site is providing the most current information? How will you know if that site is medically...
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Angelina Jolie’s opinion piece in The New York Times , May 14, 2013, has taken social media by storm. If you haven’t heard, she shared her decision to have a double mastectomy after learning that she “carries a faulty gene BRCA1.” To learn how women and men who have had breast cancer feel about the op/ed, we turned to the Breast Cancer Social...
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Looking for research on metastatic breast cancer? This can be a problem. It was precisely for this reason that Dian (CJ) Corneliussen-James started a non-profit called METAvivor. “It was out of outrage,” she says. For those who don’t know, people who have Stage IV (4) cancer have metastatic disease. Metastases means the spread of a cancer from...
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