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By: Mariel Matze For many American children, summer is about barbecues, corn on the cob, watermelon, and drippy ice cream cones. For others, it’s about hunger. During the school year, children from low-income families qualify for federally-funded National School Lunch Program (NSLP) and sometimes the School Breakfast Program through their public schools. Under these programs, a … Read more
By Maryellen Hess CameronCancer InCytes MagazineVolume 3, Issue 1, Summer 2014 Sleeping under a bridge. Sleeping on a park bench. Sleeping in a car. These images spring to mind when someone talks about homelessness because these are common places for the homeless. The misnomer is in the word “sleeping.” While homeless people may catch a … Read more
Help raise funds for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society by attending their benefit dinner in San Francisco, CA on May 29th, 2014! The theme of the gala is superheroes, so you can dress up as a superhero if you don’t want to go in “black tie.”Tickets are only $25/person. Purchase Tickets at www.superherogala.com … Read more
By David H. Nguyen, Ph.D. From the Huffington Post (1): “Police in Mexico’s western state of Michoacan detained an alleged member of the Knights Templar cartel who is suspected of kidnapping children to harvest their organs, an official … Read more
$95,000. $72. Both of these are figures I came across recently that are related to the cost of someone’s life. The first is an estimate of the added costs of prolonging a lung cancer patient’s life with a diagnostic test followed by crizotinib treatment (1,2): the added cost of the test plus first-line … Read more