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The Breast Reconstruction Guidebook
The following is an excerpt from Kathy Steligo's The Breast Reconstruction Guidebook, now in its fourth edition. If you’re facing mastectomy to treat or prevent breast cancer, you have a lot of decisions before you. Will you keep a flat chest after surgery...
Five Essentials for Surgical Care During Conflict & Disaster
With numerous ongoing conflicts and disasters occurring around the world, the work of surgical humanitarians is never ending. To understand the context and prepare to provide surgical care under such conditions, it is essential to know the following: Learn how...
Home for Thanksgiving
I never made it home for Thanksgiving that year, although I’d been looking forward to it all fall semester. I was an assistant professor, not a student, at that point and hadn’t lived in my parents’ house for many years. My husband Paul had grown up Catholic...
Before & After Cancer Treatment
Julie K. Silver, MD, is an associate professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation at Harvard Medical School and a member of the medical staff at Spaulding Rehabilitation, Massachusetts General, and Brigham and Women’s Hospitals. She developed the STAR...
Diagnosis of Maryland Governor Larry Hogan highlights effective treatment for lymphomas
Guest post by Elizabeth M. Adler, PhD Maryland Governor Larry Hogan, who was diagnosed several weeks ago with an aggressive form of B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma, has recently begun chemotherapy. Lymphoma comes in an astonishing variety of “flavors,” making it...
The consequence of patents on BRCA genes
Guest post by Sue Friedman On April 15, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments on whether Myriad Genetics’ patents on the BRCA genes, which are associated with hereditary breast and ovarian cancer, should be upheld. This case culminates a four-year legal...