I am still a woman - Confessions of a twice cancer survivor - my journey by Nina Ann McCurley

* Off the topic today this is so sad.  27 dead, including 20 children in Newtown school shooting Malloy: "Evil visited this community" Updated: Friday, 14 Dec 2012, 11:49 PM EST Published : Friday, 14 Dec 2012, 10:00 AM EST 11:50 UPDATE:   Investigators will spend the night at Sandy Hook Elementary School as they work to positively identify victims of the mass killing in Newtown Friday. "Evil visited this community today," Gov. Dannel Malloy said. 28 people were killed, 20 of them children. One other woman was injured. She was shot in the leg but is recovering.  Among the victims was Sandy Hook's principal,  Dawn Hochsprung  . The gunman was identified as Adam Lanza, 20. Authorities initially  identified his brother  as the gunman. "Our hearts are broken today,"  President Obama said  . The state medical examiner is inside the school in a makeshift morgue. State police hope to be able to release the names of all o...

A little off the topic, today but I think this a very interesting story: (CBS News) A woman reportedly checked into a Chinese hospital because of an itchy ear that had bothered her for almost a week, only to find out a spider had taken up residence in her ear canal. The woman, "Mrs. Lee," went to the Changsha Central Hospital of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery for the procedure, according to Chinese media site  Rednet.cn. LiveScience  reports that the spider likely crawled into the woman's ear five days before her August 8 hospital visit. A scope of the ear revealed hairy spider with four eyes posing for the camera (pictured above). The Huffington Post  reports that the spider may have found its new home while Mrs. Lee slept in her home during renovations. According to LiveScience, the woman's doctors were concerned if they were to simply go in and try to remove the spider, it would "instinctively drill its barbs deeper, scratching the ea...

This was released on 3rd July, exciting news. I am always keen to see progress in this area.  Young Australian males will receive the HPV vaccine (Gardasil) free of charge in a world-first public health measure that will help prevent a range of cancers. Federal Health Minister Tanya Plibersek announced the plan yesterday at the Diamantina Institute in Queensland, where the vaccine was developed by Professor Ian Frazer and his team. The HPV vaccine has already contributed to a decrease in pre-cancerous cervical lesions in young women. When administered to males, it will help prevent cancers of the genital tract, some types of head and neck cancers, and it will also enhance the vaccine’s effectiveness in women. Boys aged 12 – 13 will receive the vaccine through school-based programs under the National Immunisation Program, with Year 9 boys also included in a two-year catch-up plan. Professor Ian Frazer, co-creator of the vaccine and Chairman of the ACRF Medical Re...