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  • The real scandal: science denialism at Susan G. Komen for the Cure®

    …ple. “What’s key to surviving breast cancer? YOU. Get screened now,” the ad says. The unmistakeable takeaway? It’s your fault if you die of cancer. The blurb below the big arrow explains why. “Early detection saves lives. The 5-year survival rate for breast cancer when caught early is 98%. When it’s not? 23%.” If only it were that simple. As I’ve written previously here, the notion that breast cancer is a uniformly progressive disease that starts…

    Authored by on February 11, 2012

  • Think pink? I’d rather raise a stink

    s. presents deeply moving and beautiful expressions  from women with breast cancer, along with intensely personal  statements that provide a window into their hearts and minds.”  Claymon died of breast cancer in 2000. She was 61. Prevention is also a primary concern for the Athena Breast Health Network, a partnership of the five University of California medical centers that collects personalized data on breast cancer patients to optimize trea…

    Authored by on October 8, 2012

  • Good Deeds, Good Science: Breast Cancer Research and Education

    …voice angered by the decision of the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation to stop contributing to Planned Parenthood.  And this voice was loud enough to make a difference. If only breast cancer had ears. On February 6, 2012, the world lost not one, but two amazing women to breast cancer: Susan Niebur, also known as WhyMommy; and Rachel Cheetham Moro of The Cancer Culture Chronicles.  Both women spoke candidly about their individual batt…

    Authored by on February 7, 2012

  • Ask not what science can do for you

    …#8211;repeatedly–for more research into fighting metastatic breast cancer. As she notes, no woman survives this cancer. Thirty percent of cases of breast cancer progress to metastatic (spreading) breast cancer, yet only 3% of funding goes to researching it, even as most women diagnosed with it die within three years. Niebur observes that wearing a ribbon does not cure cancer. She writes, “I just want more time.”  Part of giving…

    Authored by on December 1, 2011

  • Giving girls…and science…their due

    …ere are still gaps. One of those gaps exists in the sciences — itself an area that we do not value nearly enough. While I did go to a co-ed school, studied science, and worked in a biogeochemistry lab, I’m in the minority. In 2009–2010, women represented less than a quarter of all students in secondary or post-secondary education studying STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) topics nationally. This disparity has led to great debate o…

    Authored by on February 27, 2013

  • Aren’t you curious?

    Source: IFLS By Courtney Williams, DXS contributor Recently my on-line science pal Emily J. Willingham asked on Facebook, “You are a consumer of science. As one, what bothers you about how science is offered to you? What questions do you have? How do you consume scientific information? How do you use it?” She’s going to be blogging on the Forbes network, see her here, and I’m guessing this was the impetus for that particular set of questio…

    Authored by on October 15, 2012

  • Biology Explainer: The big 4 building blocks of life–carbohydrates, fats, proteins, and nucleic acids

    …ll selection of different materials: bricks, mortar, iron, glass, and wood. Arranged in different ways, these few materials can yield a huge variety of structures. We encountered functional groups and the SPHONC in Chapter 3. These components form the four categories of molecules of life. These Big Four biological molecules are carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids. They can have many roles, from giving an organism structure to be…

    Authored by on June 8, 2012

  • After Newtown missteps, journalists get guidelines

    …almost twice as likely to say that they don’t want to live or work near a person with mental illness if they read an article about a person with mental illness involved in a mass shooting, according to a study published March 20 in the American Journal of Psychiatry. Interestingly, this tendency is the same even if the article avoids any mention of mental illness. This may be because this link between violence and mental illness is deeply engrain…

    Authored by on March 27, 2013

  • Infographic: Urinary tract infection

    Recognizing symptoms, getting the right treatment. by Susan E. Matthews      Also by Susan Matthews at Double X Science: Giving girls and science their due Thumbnail, homepage image via the U.S. Government (downloaded from Wikimedia Commons), and top image via NIDDK.  [Susan E. Matthews is a freelance science journalist in Brooklyn, and currently works as an editorial fellow at Popular Science. She kept an unreasonable number of journals as a c…

    Authored by on May 1, 2013

  • HIV+ doesn’t mean you can’t have children

    …childbirth, the infantmust begin a six-week course of the antiretroviral medication zidovudine (AZT). Current guidelines also state that the baby should be tested for HIV at 14 to 21 days, at 1 to 2 months, and again at 4 to 6 months. If the viral load remains undetectable after two tests, the baby is considered to not have gotten HIV. Resolving resource disparities The moms, dads, and kids with HIV have enormous potential to live healthy lives…

    Authored by on March 11, 2013

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