http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/27/living-with-cancer-giving-thanks-and-latkes/?ref=health&_r=0 Susan Gubar presents an insightful way to be thankful on this day. The Lemonade Fund gave a record number of grants this month, in time for Channukah, to Israeli...
Month: November 2013
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/27/health/in-israel-a-push-to-screen-for-cancer-gene-leaves-many-conflicted.html?ref=health&_r=0
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/27/health/in-israel-a-push-to-screen-for-cancer-gene-leaves-many-conflicted.html?ref=health&_r=0http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/27/health/in-israel-a-push-to-screen-for-cancer-gene-leaves-many-conflicted.html?ref=health&_r=0 Should Israelis have mandatory BRCA gene testing?
Breast Cancer Leading Cause of Death in Israeli Women
http://www.jpost.com/Health-and-Science/Death-rate-from-heart-disease-down-80-percent-compared-to-1970s-332407Breast Cancer Leading Cause of Death in Israeli Women Breast Cancer is the leading cause of death of Israeli women. (Higher in Jews than Arabs for some reason.) Treatment is top notch. Then, why? Must beat this disease. (Reminder to schedule your mammograms.)
Crispy Potato Latkes with Lemon and Healthy Baked Donuts
Gourmet | December 2008 by Paul Grimes photo by Roland Bello yield Makes about 20 latkes Every family has its own (ahem, best) version of these savory potato pancakes. We’re offering you a classic formula, though not everyone drains the potato mixture before...
http://www.eventusdx.com/?page_id=82 New simple blood test to verify negative mammograms. To help allay concerns about what mammograms may miss. Pilot for Octava Pink test in Italy and Israel. Interesting
A thank you from a Lemonade Fund Grant recipient
To the Lemonade Fund: My name is I.Z. I made aliyah (moved to Israel) with my mother, in 1995. I met and had a relationship with a man after arriving. It was a mistake, but out of this relationship a son was born to me in 1997, and his name is T. The father of the boy...