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Mashup Score: 7Elaine Schattner, "From Whispers to Shouts: The Ways We Talk about Cancer" (Columbia UP, 2023) - 8 month(s) ago
Listen to this episode from Off the Page: A Columbia University Press Podcast on Spotify. The “war on cancer” was launched during the Nixon Administration in 1971, but the term was part of the national dialog on cancer at least early as 1913. Pink ribbons have been ubiquitous symbols of breast cancer awareness and fund-raising promotions since the mid-1980s, but “cancer weeks” fostering awareness of the disease and gala fund-raisers staged by wealthy socialites were popular beginning at least 100 years earlier. Early detection was touted as a cure at the beginning of the 20th century, long before any treatments other than primitive surgery were available, not to mention tests like mammography to detect the disease. Elaine Schattner provides these and myriad other surprising insights from our long and tortuous relationship with cancer in From Whispers to Shouts: The Ways We Talk about Cancer (Columbia UP, 2023). It is a fascinating book that traces how public perception and portrayal of
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Mashup Score: 2Elon Musk doubles down on anti-ADL social media campaign - 8 month(s) ago
The Twitter CEO’s post was in response to a video clip by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones calling the ADL ‘pro-Hitler.’
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Mashup Score: 4Alcohol Consumption Among Adults With a Cancer Diagnosis - 9 month(s) ago
This cross-sectional study uses data from the National Institutes of Health All of Us Research Program to characterize alcohol consumption patterns among US cancer survivors.
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Mashup Score: 7
In May 1991, I sat in a law firm conference room in Washington, DC, listening to a pitch from a small group of women who had the idea to launch a political advocacy movement around breast cancer. One of those women was Dr. Susan Love. The person next to me nudged me with her elbow […]
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Mashup Score: 31The letter is a sign that he is likely to be indicted in the case. - 10 month(s) ago
It would be the second time the special counsel has notified the former president that he is likely to face indictment, this time in connection with the criminal investigation into the events leading up to the Capitol attack.
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Mashup Score: 2Patients, Nurses and Doctors Blame Health Insurers for Increasing Costs and Barriers to Care - HealthPopuli.com - 10 month(s) ago
Most patients, nurses and doctors believe that health insurance plans reduce access to health care which contributes to clinician burnout and increases costs, based on three surveys conducted by Morning Consult for the American Hospital Association (AHA). Most patients have experienced at least one health insurance related barrier in the past two years, and 4 in 10 of those people…
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Mashup Score: 1About — Congressional Women's Softball Game - 10 month(s) ago
The Congressional Women’s Softball Game began in 2009 with captains Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), Rep. Jo Ann Emerson (R-MO), Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME). They brought together a team of women Members of Congress to play the female campaign staff from both parties after Debbie Wasserman Schultz announced her own battle with breast cancer. In 2010, the…
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Mashup Score: 2Who Employs Your Doctor? Increasingly, a Private Equity Firm. - 10 month(s) ago
A new study finds that private equity firms own more than half of all specialists in certain U.S. markets.
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Mashup Score: 7AHCJ: Webinar: Cancer news: Balancing fear, hype and reality - 10 month(s) ago
The Association of Health Care Journalists (AHCJ) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the quality, accuracy and visibility of health care reporting.
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Mashup Score: 1Elaine Schattner (@elaineschattner) on Threads - 10 month(s) ago
Author, “From Whispers To Shouts: The Ways We Talk About Cancer” (Columbia U. Press). Speaker. Former Oncologist. Cancer Survivor. New Yorker. Human. 92 Followers.
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You can find my @NewBooksNetwork #podcast with health and science journalist @RonWinslow @Spotify https://t.co/ufsG3IFNRB and elsewhere. https://t.co/lPOTE9uHu4 #FromWhispersToShouts Talking about cancer...@ColumbiaUP Please take a listen, comment, and share -