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No Mozart Effect? Music and Health

No Mozart Effect?  Music and Health

Posted by on Aug 17, 2015 in Blog |

“Where words fail, music speaks” ~Hans Christian Andersen “No Mozart Effect” You spent hours with earphones on your bulging belly, playing Mozart, hoping your unborn child would be a genius. Fast-forward 14 years, you’ve got a hormone crazed teen with nothing on his mind but Taylor Swift. Since 1993, the media’s promoted Mozart’s music...

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Surveillance? Surgery? Radiation? Localized Low-Risk Prostate Cancer Infographic

Surveillance? Surgery? Radiation? Localized Low-Risk Prostate Cancer Infographic

Posted by on Jun 18, 2014 in Blog, Prostate cancer |

Prostate Cancer Impacts 1 in 6 Men in the US According to Kevin Loughlin, Urologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, “If prostate cancer survivors were a city, it would be the 4th largest in the US.” Alarming as this statement is, the lifetime risk of dying from prostate cancer is only 3%. That means that most men who are diagnosed with...

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The Evolution of Medicine [Infographic]

The Evolution of Medicine [Infographic]

Posted by on Apr 10, 2014 in Blog |

An incredible infographic and historical timeline by Best Medical Degrees. Source: BestMedicalDegrees.com More data:   The Evolution of Medicine Modern medicine has helped lead to a surge in average life expectancy, which was only about 36 in the late 1800s. With humans routinely living into their 100s, advances in medical science are to thank....

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A Roadmap to the “New Normal:” Understanding Cancer Treatment’s Bumpy Ride

A Roadmap to the “New Normal:” Understanding Cancer Treatment’s Bumpy Ride

Posted by on Sep 11, 2013 in Blog, Breast cancer, Colorectal cancer, Hodgkin's lymphoma, Leukemia, Lung cancer, Lymphoma, Melanoma, Multiple Myeloma, Non-Hodgkin lymphoma, Prostate cancer | 3 comments

So often people who undergo chemotherapy hear something like this from their family, friends or other well-wishers, “Thank goodness that’s over, now you can get on with your life. You can get back to normal.” Although it’s true that chemotherapy is over, the road that the patient is on is not smooth. There are important changes that caregivers and...

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Where there’s smoke…?

Where there’s smoke…?

Posted by on Jul 31, 2013 in Blog | 1 comment

You may not believe it but there are times during surgery when smoke is released into the air. What?  TMI? (too much information?) Well actually, there is information in that smoke. There are surgical procedures that involve what is called electrosurgical dissection, electricity flows through the surgical knife and “cauterizes” as it cuts.   During...

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