Jan. 2, 2016 Maggie Fox NBC News Researchers say they may have helped explain how sugar might fuel the growth of cancer, and say it boils down to one type of sugar in particular: fructose. Tests in mice show a possible mechanism for how it happens. The findings, published in the journal Cancer Research, support
Read moreABC Health & Wellbeing By Sophie Scott, 12 Jul 2016. In the business of our everyday existence, how do we create a life with meaning? At the start of this year, I wrote about feeling vulnerable and losing touch with my authentic self. I was feeling like I had lost a sense of meaning in
Read morePet dogs often have a peaceful death that forestalls protracted suffering and pain. Why can’t we do the same for humans? Joseph Pierre is a professor of psychiatry at the University of California, Los Angeles and chief of the Hospital Psychiatry Division at the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System. He writes the Psych
Read moreABC Radio Melbourne, by Nicole Mills, 7 Aug 2018. A new breed of doulas are helping break down the fear around death, which they say shouldn’t be a confronting word. Carmen Barnsley from Melbourne said just like birth doulas, death doulas were there to provide support, knowledge and assistance during times of upheaval and uncertainty.
Read moreDeath awareness has a profound impact on our thoughts, feelings, and behavior. Robert W Firestone Ph.D. posted May 18, 2018 Although largely unconscious, the awareness of our finite existence, the fact that we all must die, has a profound impact on our thoughts, feelings, and behavior. The fear and emotional anguish associated with anticipating the
Read moreBy Charlotte Hamlyn in Basel, Switzerland, and Briana Shepherd, updated 11 May 2018. David Goodall has fulfilled his final wish and taken his life through assisted suicide in a Swiss clinic, in a powerful statement in favour of voluntary euthanasia. The story of the 104-year-old Perth academic, who is one of the first Australians
Read moreABC Science, by Bianca Nogrady, 2 Mar 2016 Stress acts as a “fertiliser” for cancer, helping it to spread through the body’s lymphatic system, according to a study on mice. The research, led by Australian scientists, also showed that a well-known blood pressure drug may reduce the risk of the cancer spreading. In a paper
Read moreABC Radio Melbourne, by Nicole Mills, 19 Jun 2018. How do you tell a child their mother is dying? It’s a question Chris Martin had to confront when his late wife Renee was diagnosed with incurable kidney cancer. The couple decided not to use the term cancer to describe Renee’s illness in order to shield
Read moreABC Health & Wellbeing, 11th August, 2016 By Dr Ranjana Srivastava, with Ginger Gorman. When it comes to cancer, the media traditionally paints a picture of two extremes. It celebrates the outliers — like the person who defied death and went on to have long, successful life, or the unfortunate patient whose life and
Read moreby Will Cairns (doctorportal, issue 14/16 April 2018) THIS week, 16–22 April 2018, is National Advance Care Planning Week, which provides the opportunity for us to consider why advance care planning (ACP) is elbowing its way into the heart of health care as a core responsibility for doctors, whatever our field of practice. A
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