by Eric Bersh | Sep 19, 2022
Active surveillance (AS) for low-risk to intermediate-risk prostate cancer has been “an overnight success” that took 30 years to move from academia to mainstream practices. Since 2014, AS — close monitoring of low-risk prostate cancer with PSA blood testing,...
by Carly Flumer | Sep 13, 2021
I didn’t want to tell anyone about my diagnosis. I thought my family and a few close friends were enough. But I got brave one day four years ago and posted about it on social media. The outpouring of support was incredible. I thought, if I’m receiving this much...
by Tamika Felder | Jun 16, 2021
Stories have the power to punch you in the gut. Of course I mean figuratively, but in many real ways, literally too. I literally feel pain–coupled with inspiration–when fellow cancer survivors share their experiences, struggles and fears. Stories have the...
by Sarah Krüg | Mar 12, 2019
“Vague but exciting…,” was the response Sir Tim Berners-Lee received when he submitted a proposal for an information management system (aka the world wide web) to his supervisor in March of 1989. Three decades later, we have hit a key milestone, and approximately half...
by e-Patient Dave | Oct 9, 2018
[Update: this post has been picked up and cross-posted on the widely read The Health Care Blog] Here’s the latest in our series of posts by and about the outstanding speakers we’ve lined up for the Society for Participatory Medicine’s second annual conference on Oct....
by e-Patient Dave | Jul 15, 2018
TONIGHT: 9 pm Eastern time. #BCSM Twitter chat on the latest Facebook privacy issue. This time the data leaked is from a patient group. FB says it’s a nothingburger. What do you think? Facebook has a record of privacy leaks. The poster shown here (click to...
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