Getting Taken to the Cleaners, the Poorhouse, or Worse–to Jail
As much as your friends and family would love to protect you, it’s really your own job to avoid being betrayed financially, as you’re the one who has all the clues. Be your own detective regarding financially improper or criminal behavior. But how do you read those clues, and what should you be looking for? […]
National Cancer Survivors Day–the Good, the Bad, and the Neutral
June 1, 2014
by candidaabrahamson
There are only three possible outcomes after a major life event: things get worse, things get better, or things stay the same. Once you’ve had cancer, it’s not too likely that your life will ever be the same. OK, maybe with a tiny skin cancer. But I mean the big, scary CANCER, where your existence […]
You Can’t Keep a Good Fiend Down: Exercise and Cancer–National Breast Cancer Awareness Month
October 2, 2015
by candidaabrahamson
If you’re starting to get the idea, after being subjected to posts like Running For Your Life: How I View Depression and Exercise and Of Bipolar Disorder, The Hippocampus, and The Return of the Exercise Fiend that I’m, well, an exercise fiend, who believes exercise can make just about anything better–you’re spot on. And if you’re […]
“And a one and a two. . .”: Exercise as a way to improve Alzheimer’s (World Alzheimer Awareness Day)
Alzheimer’s disease is the leading cause of dementia and the fifth leading cause of death for those 65 and older write Casey, Antimisiaris, and O’Brien in their 2010 article in Pharmacy and Therapeutics, “Drugs for Alzheimer’s Disease: Are They Effective?” I imagine everyone nows by no that the journey involves progressive cognitive loss and impairment until the […]
Who Owns the Overweight Problem: National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month
September 2, 2015
by candidaabrahamson
Everybody worries about a chubby child. Thin parents and overweight parents, especially those who suffered from fat-kid syndrome themselves. Even Michelle Obama weighs in on this topic. Yet nobody knows what to do about it, except make September a National Child Obesity Awareness Month. Thanks a lot. One thing surely won’t work: a parent trying […]
‘A Fine Mess We’re In’: Majority of Cancer Preclinical Research Findings Not Replicable–Childhood Cancer Awareness Month
September 1, 2015
by candidaabrahamson
‘The failure to win “the war on cancer” has been blamed on many factors, … But recently a new culprit has emerged: too many basic scientific discoveries… are wrong.’~C. Glenn Begley It’s nothing new. Over 3 decades ago the problem was well-known, as memorialized in the premier journal Science, in its article “Reevaluation of cancer data […]
When the Oncologist Talks. . .Not Everybody Listens: National Cancer Survivor’s Day
June 1, 2015
by candidaabrahamson
Remember that old commercial? No, not the one where you should have had a V8. Or even the one where the voice croons to you, “And like a good neighbor. . .” and you can’t help but sing out, “Statefarm is there,” even though you’ve long ago switched to Progressive, since they really do have better […]
June is National Migraine Awareness Month
There’s no doubt that I’m the weak link in my family. Sometimes you have no choice in linguistic life but to turn to Yiddish to really say what you want to say. So I’m not going to use the word ‘kvetch’ just because everybody knows it (even if I might have tendencies), but rather, if […]
National Suicide Prevention Week, May 17-23, 2015
On Sunday begins the 41st Annual National Suicide Prevention Week. The American Association of Suicidology is behind the week, and I just love their mission statement, with absolutely no messing around: “The goal of the American Association of Suicidology (AAS) is to understand and prevent suicide.” There you have it. They have entitled the mission of this […]
Quality Over Quantity?: It’s the Patient’s To Decide: Cancer Fatigue Awareness Day
April 7, 2015
by candidaabrahamson
I’ve got some men in my life who are seriously big eaters. Forces to be reckoned with. Hosting a barbecue for them requires much advanced planning–plus a significant financial outlay at the butcher’s. One’s on the Atkins Diet–again–and watching him down hot dog after hamburger at the last picnic was truly observing a feat. I actually […]
World Bipolar Day: the Birthdate of Vincent Van Gogh
March 30, 2015
by candidaabrahamson
After over a decade of – granted, very rocky – general stability, I suffered a mental health episode in my late 30s that both came as quite a shock to me and pretty much knocked me out of the playing field for quite some time. I had to cause recently to list a number of […]
Is fear of insomnia like fear of flying–exposure-response prevention for the sleepless? Part I National Sleep Awareness Week
March 2, 2015
by candidaabrahamson
What are two major miseries of our well-off modern society? Obesity and sleeplessness. No surprise that they seem to be connected; looks like those who fail to get enough sleep are more likely to be overweight. They’re connected in another way: for some folks, no matter what they try, nothing is effective. Behavioral treatments […]
Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (Drug Awareness Week)
February 16, 2015
by candidaabrahamson
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in their paper “Policy Impact: Prescription Painkiller Overdoses,” declared prescription drug abuse “an epidemic” in the United States. By far the biggest factor in prescription drug abuse is an eruption in prescription painkiller abuse. The shocking statistic provided by the Department of Health and Human Services is that almost three of four […]
August 1, 2014
by candidaabrahamson
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