A journey
Seven months after the French government banned Allergan textured breast implants, the FDA has followed suit in the United States.
Allergan pulled all BioCell textured breast implant products from Europe last year and from Canada in May.
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On the last episode of The Bachelorette in May, Cameron “Cam” Ayala told Hannah Brown that he has a medical condition that he must deal with every day: lymphedema.
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On a cold, bright Sunday afternoon during New York Fashion Week, nearly six hundred people packed into an old building in Manhattan’s Lower East Side for an unusual lingerie show.
It was the third annual #Cancerland fashion show sponsored by the lingerie company AnaOno and METAvivor, a nonprofit organization advocating for metastatic breast cancer (MBC) research and awareness.
Updated. About half of cancer patients who undergo chemotherapy find that food may taste different. It can be too sweet, too salty, too bitter or bland.
The Chemo Kitchen Cookbook is a collection of recipes written by award-winning chefs, created specifically for people going through taste change during cancer treatment.
It’s coming to you from Seattle via Kickstarter; order your copy by 5 pm Pacific on Friday 27 July.
It’s been funded! Happy Dance!
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“Celebrated our dear colleague & friend, Chinita Anderson @nprnews tonight. She died in May of complications related to colorectal cancer. She was 46. She was a globetrotting, loud, eye-blinding light. These were some of her words to live by. She wrote them like this, in all caps.”