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Suzanne Gladstone, clinical psychologist - Washington Post

2012-05-19

Suzanne Gladstone, clinical psychologist
Washington Post
Suzanne Gladstone, 76, a clinical psychologist who had a private practice in Gaithersburg from 1972 until this year, died of kidney cancer April 20 at the Manor Care nursing center in Potomac. She was a Bethesda resident. The death was confirmed by her ...


Ethan Zohn Steps Out After Stem-Cell Transplant to Attend Jenna Morasca's ... - E! Online

2012-05-17

E! Online

Ethan Zohn Steps Out After Stem-Cell Transplant to Attend Jenna Morasca's ...
E! Online
... against cancer, but the Survivor winner still found a way to attend longtime girlfriend Jenna Morasca's graduation from Columbia University yesterday. She now has a masters in counseling and clinical psychology with an emphasis in substance abuse.
Ethan Zohn Attends Jenna Morasca's GraduationPeople Magazine
Ethan Zohn: 'I'm Getting Stronger Every Day'Everyday Health

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Gail Pflaster, ROWITA awards founder, dies following battle with cancer - St. Augustine Record

2012-05-18

Gail Pflaster, ROWITA awards founder, dies following battle with cancer
St. Augustine Record
She worked as a teacher of the deaf in the New York City school system, later directed the education of the deaf program at Hunter College, did post doctoral work at McGill University in Montreal, and continued her teaching career in the psychology ...


CSUF awards diplomas to 10359 students - OCRegister

2012-05-19

CSUF awards diplomas to 10359 students
OCRegister
From left, Alix Legacy, 24, of Laguna Niguel; Margarita Macias Hernandez, 31, of Fullerton; and Meghan Gutierrez, 26, of Rialto, graduates who earned their bachelor of arts degree in psychology on Saturday, wave to their families before getting their ...


Harriet Berman, 63; helped cancer patients to reach out - Boston Globe

2012-05-06

Boston Globe

Harriet Berman, 63; helped cancer patients to reach out
Boston Globe
By Bryan Marquard As a clinical psychologist whose patients had been diagnosed with cancer, Harriet Kasloff Berman knew better than most therapists that every word spoken about illness has the power to heal minds, even as bodies fail.


Positive Social Support Reduces Health-Related Anxiety in Cancer Survivors - GoodTherapy.org (blog)

2012-05-17

Positive Social Support Reduces Health-Related Anxiety in Cancer Survivors
GoodTherapy.org (blog)
Shannon L. Jones of the Department of Psychology at the University of Regina in Canada sought to determine how social support affected the well-being of women after a diagnosis of breast cancer. She looked specifically at how perceived levels of ...


Boulder Valley graduates look toward the future - Daily Camera

2012-05-19

Boulder Valley graduates look toward the future
Daily Camera
College-bound artist Alex Stark was 11 years old when he was diagnosed with malignant brain cancer. The surgery, chemotherapy and radiation left their marks — affecting, for example, the cadence of his speech and his voice.

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ABOUT TOWN: Stoughton Cancer Survivor to Take Part in "Celebration of Life ... - Patch.com

2012-05-04

ABOUT TOWN: Stoughton Cancer Survivor to Take Part in "Celebration of Life ...
Patch.com
STOUGHTON CANCER SURVIVOR FEATURED SPEAKER: Taking place in the Harvard Medical School Quadrangle on May 20, is the Celebration of Life, a full day of celebration, education and kinship for the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) cancer ...


Girl self-diagnoses leukaemia after watching Cameron Diaz film - Telegraph.co.uk

2012-05-17

Telegraph.co.uk

Girl self-diagnoses leukaemia after watching Cameron Diaz film
Telegraph.co.uk
Alex Cooper, 17, was stunned after she noticed she was suffering the same symptoms as a character dying from cancer while watching the film 'My Sister's Keeper'. The film is about a young girl who is brought into the world to be a genetic match for her ...

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Student's story comes full circle at Relay for Life - Minnesota Daily

2012-04-29

Student's story comes full circle at Relay for Life
Minnesota Daily
But Tlachac, a junior studying child psychology, was without her long hair when she gave the opening speech at Relay for Life on Friday at Bierman Field. Diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma last May, Tlachac recounted her battle with cancer.

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The Right To Die With Dignity

2012-05-20
Less than a year ago I learned that I have uterine cancer. Since I got this diagnosis, I've be ...

Schoolgirl diagnosed with cancer after she recognised symptoms while watching film starring Cameron Diaz

2012-05-17
Alex Cooper, 17, from Kent, is in remission after two years of chemotherapy to treat chronic myeloid leukaemia after she spotting early warning signs of the disease watching My Sister's Keeper.

Cancer by the numbers

2012-05-06
(MENAFN - Jordan Times) It is difficult to communicate medical risk to a large audience, especially when official recommendations conflict with emotional narratives. That is why, when the United ...

Girl self-diagnoses leukaemia after watching Cameron Diaz film

2012-05-17
A teenage girl who thought she was just lazy has overcome leukaemia after recognising her lethargic symptoms in a character in a Cameron Diaz film.

Groups raise more than $155,000 in Relay For Life

2012-04-29
By: Claire Bramel More than 1,700 participants attended the ninth annual Relay For Life on Friday at Bierman Field, less than last year’s 2,400. Colleges Against Cancer put on the fundraiser which raised more than $155,000, roughly $60,000 less than 2011’s Relay For Life. From 6 p.m. to 6 a.m., 140 teams walked to raise awareness and money for the American Cancer Society. The Colleges Against ...

Student's story comes full circle at Relay For Life

2012-04-29
By: Claire Bramel Erin Tlachac always identified herself with her curly brown hair. “That’s how people in Admissions Ambassadors knew her — Erin with the pretty long hair,” said her friend Zach Morris. But Tlachac, a junior studying child psychology, was without her long hair when she gave the opening speech at Relay for Life on Friday at Bierman Field. Diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma last May ...

New Oncology and Pathology Resources Published at Sciences Social Network

2012-05-08
The Oncology and Pathology Sciences are two new key health categories covered by the Sciences Social Network ScienceIndex.com. The users of the website monitor over 300 scientific journals and submit the most significant scientific results of these journals for inclusion in these two categories. ScienceIndex.com was established in 1998 to index the very latest news, headlines, references and ...

Memoir Recounts Author's Encounters With Secretive Zulu Traditions - When Dreams Turn Into Nightmares

2012-05-08
TAOS, N.M. -- What started as a dream and a spiritual calling for Karen Baldwin, quickly turned into a nightmare in the Zulu region of South Africa as the obscure traditions of the Zulu tribal chiefs and ...

The Bloggess, the Gilt gals, and the erotic “Fifty Shades” rule the rankings (Bestsellers of the week)

2012-04-29
A remarkable week for top titles, with fresh fare sweeping into the top spots of all four categories ... Madly popular blogger Jenny Lawson’s new memoir takes #1 in new nofiction (and let’s face it, the book’s endpaper alone is reason alone to buy it), followed closely by a peek into the White House inner sanctum from Time magazine journalists and then the ladies behind the rapidly expanding ...

Anger: How to Recognize and Deal with a Common Emotion

2012-05-10
Q&A on recognizing and dealing with anger.