NCI Cancer Bulletin - New issue available

The latest issue of the NCI Cancer Bulletin is now available online.

Cancer Research Highlights include developments in testing and treatment of prostate and breast cancers. Also included in this is a FDA Update on Gardasil for older women.

About the Bulletin: The NCI Cancer Bulletin is published twice a month by the National Cancer Institute (NCI).

Read the Bulletin online, in HTML or PDF format.

Cover the Uninsured Week

Next week, April 27 through May 3, 2008 is Cover the Uninsured Week.

Cover the Uninsured Week is a 5 year old project of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to promote awareness of the problem, support SCHIP, and to point the uninsured to resources and organizations that can help. Partners include the AFL-CIO, the American Medical Association, the Amercan Nurses Association, AARP, and many more.

For more information:

• Visit the website, or go directly to the CTUW's page for California
• Read the CTUW's Guide to Finding Health Insurance Coverage
• Spanish speakers may like to browse the CTUW's Spanish section, Recursos para indiduos

NCI Cancer Bulletin - New issue available

The latest issue of the NCI Cancer Bulletin is now available online. This week's fetured article: "Drug Combination Cuts Risk of Advanced Colon Polyps".

Read the online (html) version
Read the PDF version

About the Bulletin:
The NCI Cancer Bulletin is published by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and provides information on the research currently being conducted by the NCI.

Tuition Sweepstakes

Those who don't buy online as frequently as I do may not have heard about this yet, but Amazon is running a sweepstakes where the grand prize winner wins a year of free tuition. The second prize is nothing to sneeze at either - $1000 Amazon gift certificates to be used in their Textbook store. You can even enter on a family members behalf - which is a nice touch.

For more information - or to enter, see the Amazon's feature here.