FamGenix — a family health history app

Posted on February 5, 2020 by Sitemaster

As the Democratic Party discovered this week in Iowa, apps can have problems. However, there are also apps that prove to be very useful straight out of the gate — and they can be improved over time too. … READ MORE …

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UPDATE … the new PCa Social Network PLUS app

Posted on May 23, 2019 by Sitemaster

A couple of weeks ago (see here) we had first told you about the launch of the new PCa Social Network PLUS app that allows mobile access to a new social netowrk (and a clinical trial of its effects) for men with prostate cancer. … READ MORE …

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NOW AVAILABLE … the new PCa Social Network PLUS app

Posted on May 9, 2019 by Sitemaster

Back in February this year we had told you about the development of a new type of social network that would (a) allow men to share information about their prostate cancer with each other and (b) collect that data to evaluate whether such networking improved patients’ quality of life. … READ MORE …

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LAST CHANCE to participate in our current survey

Posted on February 28, 2019 by Sitemaster

By late yesterday nearly 600 men had completed our recent survey and most of them had expressed some degree of interest in participating in the quality of life trial we will be initiating soon. Again, thanks to all of you who have done that. … READ MORE …

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PLEASE consider completing our recent survey!

Posted on February 26, 2019 by Sitemaster

So just over 300 patients have already completed the survey that we put up on line last Friday. Thanks to all of you who have done that. And we’d really like to see if we can get to a total of something like 750 “with a little help from our friends”. … READ MORE …

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A new study (and new technology) about quality of life and prostate cancer

Posted on February 22, 2019 by Sitemaster

Prostate Cancer International and two of its partners — CancerLife and the John Wayne Cancer Institute in Santa Monica, CA — are soon going to be looking for men to participate in a new clinical trial about quality of life and living with prostate cancer. … READ MORE …

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America est omnis divisa in tria genera hominum

Posted on October 13, 2016 by Sitemaster

For readers who are less than familiar with the books properly known as Caesaris Comentarii de Bello Gallico (or more simply, Caesar’s Gallic Wars), written between about 58 and  44 BCE, please understand that almost all European schoolchildren of a certain generation used to know that the first of these eight books began, “Gallia est omnis divisa in tres partes” or “All of Gaul is divided into three parts”. … READ MORE …

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