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 Volume 6, Issue 12 - December 28, 2007
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Teenager turns his family's experience into a force for good |
| No one wants to watch mom or dad struggle through cancer. Jake Sachse, though, turned his father's successful fight against lymphoma into a victory for others, too. The inspired 16-year-old has launched a drive to sign up volunteers to the national marrow donor registry. |
| If you use the Web to learn about health, you're not alone. About 22 percent of consumer households in the United States reported using the Internet in the past 12 months to get information about disease and wellness, according to the Healthcare Market Guide study by the National Research Corporation. But how can you tell if the information you find is reliable? The U.S. Food and Drug Administration offers a variety of tips to help evaluate such sites online. One piece of advice: scrutinize how facts are documented. |
| Ask the Experts - Great Sleep to Great Awakening: Your Anesthesia Experience |
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Speakers: Michael Lew, M.D., chair, Walter Chang, M.D., Russell Gray, M.D., Earl Moore-Jeffries, M.D., and Michael Sullivan, M.D., Division of Anesthesia, City of Hope
Location: Platt Conference Center, City of Hope campus in Duarte, Calif.
Date and time: 6 to 7:30 p.m., Jan. 30
R.S.V.P. and info: 800-535-1390, ext. 65669
Light refreshments served. |
| "Curious" |
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"Curious," an inspiring documentary about an innovative clinical trial involving City of Hope and Caltech, is slated to air on public television in several cities nationwide beginning Jan. 2. The trial tests a promising new cancer therapy that delivers chemotherapy drugs using nanoparticles, which minimize the adverse effects of the drugs on the rest of the body.
City of Hope's Yun Yen, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Department of Clinical & Molecular Pharmacology, and Stephen Forman, M.D., the Francis and Kathleen McNamara Distinguished Chair in Hematology and Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation, are featured along with Mark Davis, Ph.D., Warren and Katharine Schlinger Professor of Chemical Engineering at Caltech.
"Curious" is scheduled to air on these dates, but please check local listings for the airings listed, as dates may be subject to change:
KOCE (Orange County, Calif.) - Jan. 2, 10 p.m.
KCSM (San Francisco) - Jan. 2, 9 p.m.
KQED (San Francisco) - Jan. 2, 8 p.m.
KCDT (Spokane, Wash.) - Jan. 2, 7 p.m.
KUID (Spokane) - Jan. 2, 7 p.m.
WEDU (Tampa, Fla.) - Jan. 8, 9 p.m.
KBTC (Tacoma, Wash.) - Jan. 10, 9 p.m.
WPBT (Miami) - Jan. 8, 9 p.m.
WMFE (Orlando, Fla.) - Jan. 10, 10 p.m.
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