More things and stuff
1) Bethematch.Com, which is part of Marrow.org, is trying to do a Youtube "swarm" through midnight tomorrow - seeing how many hits they can manage on their new advert. They're the most diverse bone marrow registry available, but it's still very difficult to find matches for racial minorities, let alone mixed race patients:
2) Semirelatedly, I suppose (although marrow transplant seems to now be a treatmentfor other diseases, like Sickle Cell Anemia. Interesting: this isn't in fact new - first non-cancer use was 1968.)
Er. Anyway. I mentioned the benefits of Hospice a couple posts back, and commented that studies indicate longer survival times with palliative care. There was a full article about this in yesterday's NYTimes; 3 month longer survival time in lung cancer patients who were hooked into the palliative care system at treatment start.
3) Somewhat for my own reference, comparing nursing homes, and one way to judge a nursing home.
4) again, semirelatedly, movin_meat, on the proposed Conservative alternative to the health care changes, which . . . isn't exactly fleshed out.
5) Not related at all, but probably worth noting: Facebook Mobile's new Location Announcer. Which according to Lifehacker is defaulting to ON. lifehacker.com: How to disable Facebook Places.
6) Here, something more cheery. Ish. Funny, though occasionally sick: http://myfirstdictionary.blogspot.com/
Click to view2) Semirelatedly, I suppose (although marrow transplant seems to now be a treatmentfor other diseases, like Sickle Cell Anemia. Interesting: this isn't in fact new - first non-cancer use was 1968.)
Er. Anyway. I mentioned the benefits of Hospice a couple posts back, and commented that studies indicate longer survival times with palliative care. There was a full article about this in yesterday's NYTimes; 3 month longer survival time in lung cancer patients who were hooked into the palliative care system at treatment start.
3) Somewhat for my own reference, comparing nursing homes, and one way to judge a nursing home.
4) again, semirelatedly, movin_meat, on the proposed Conservative alternative to the health care changes, which . . . isn't exactly fleshed out.
5) Not related at all, but probably worth noting: Facebook Mobile's new Location Announcer. Which according to Lifehacker is defaulting to ON. lifehacker.com: How to disable Facebook Places.
6) Here, something more cheery. Ish. Funny, though occasionally sick: http://myfirstdictionary.blogspot.com/