This is an update to two separate posts from last spring about my prostate cancer. Despite PSA scores that continued to be lower than the one that lead to the previous biopsies, my most recent biopsy revealed two additional tumors that like the first one are also 6 on the Gleason scale. The tumors are small, but… [Read more…]
August 17, 2010
“Imaging tests showed a greater number of connections in the anterior cingulate — the part of the brain which regulates emotion and behavior — among those who practiced meditation compared to subjects in the control group…Deficits in activation of the anterior cingulate cortex also have been associated with attention deficit disorder, dementia, depression, schizophrenia and… [Read more…]
August 3, 2010
An Israeli discovery allowing stem cells to be cultivated in quantities ample enough to meet the world’s needs means that stem cell therapy could soon be within the reach of millions. Photo courtesy of Yossi Zamir/Flash90. Mass-market manufacture of stem cells is closer than ever after a breakthrough by researchers from Hadassah University Medical Center… [Read more…]
July 30, 2010
Culture Sex Boosts Brain Growth, Study Suggests By Charles Q. Choi, LiveScience Contributor posted: 28 July 2010 09:21 am ET Read the article on livescience.com
July 9, 2010
The supplements I’ve been taking and dietary changes I’ve made in recent months seem to have made a difference. In December 2009 my PSA result was 3.27. This week it was 1.26! I’ll see my urologist a week from Tuesday. Let’s see if I can’t shrink my prostate tumor and put the cancer into remission.
May 13, 2010
This is a follow-up to my January and February posts. In January I reported that an increase in my PSA would necessitate a prostate biopsy and in February I reported that the biopsy was inconclusive and would require another biopsy in April. In March at the suggestion of our friend Jeff Marker, who has been… [Read more…]
February 10, 2010
Not yet a thumbs up but at least so far not a thumbs down. There are no apparent malignancies but there is a suspicious area of inflammation on account of which I will have to undergo a second biopsy in April.
February 4, 2010
(14 comments) |Share |Print News in Science TV shortens your life span, study finds Tuesday, 12 January 2010 Meredith Griffiths for AMABC Researchers say the major risk factor was sitting instead of being active (Source: Giulio Saggin, file photo/ABC News) Related Stories Audio: TV cuts life short (AM) Daily dose of TV doubles asthma risk,… [Read more…]
January 26, 2010
It was not fun, but was necessary. The doc must have taken seven or eight tissue samples, and I could feel each incision. Afterward I felt weak and light headed but was able to walk home; on the way I stopped at the Park Slope Sweet Melissa Patisserie on Seventh Avenue and got a chocolate… [Read more…]
November 24, 2009
via examiner.com Abayudaya representative J.J. Keki’s talk relates the history and current circumstances of Uganda’s Jewish community.
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December 19, 2010
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