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Category Archives: drugs/medications/pharmacy
Up close: Meet DIANA
This is the device that helps the pharmacy team in the Upstate Cancer Center mix chemotherapy medications for individual patients. The product name “DIANA” is a tribute to the ICU Medical founder and CEO’s wife, Diana Kostyra Lopez, MD, whose … Continue reading
Posted in cancer, drugs/medications/pharmacy, health care, technology
She’s beating the odds, thanks to her ‘tenderhearted’ oncologist
BY SUSAN KEETER On an August day, Kathi Tamer and her cousins were making Lebanese string cheese. The process involves kneading hot cheese curd into braids and rolling them in caraway seeds. While they cooked, they talked about oncologist Stephen Graziano, MD, … Continue reading
Posted in cancer, chemotherapy, drugs/medications/pharmacy, health care, lung/pulmonary, patient story
Tagged cancer survivor, hanoon, non-Hodgkin lymphoma
Advice from the experts at Upstate about thong underwear, CBD and sunscreens
Q: What’s this I hear about sunscreen chemicals getting into my body? A: A recent study found that if you apply sunscreen under maximal conditions — frequently enough, using a high enough sun protection factor and covering adequate body surface area — some … Continue reading
Rethinking Kaposi sarcoma: Viral immunologist sees patient improve after treatment for inflammatory response
Editor’s note: This is one of three articles on Upstate’s “renegade researchers” — scientists who are providing new ways of looking at long-standing medical problems, including Kaposi sarcoma (detailed below), hydrocephalus and schizophrenia. BY AMBER SMITH Christine King, PhD, studied … Continue reading
Posted in cancer, drugs/medications/pharmacy, health care, HealthLink on Air, research
Tagged Kaposi sarcoma
A historical look at 5 popular heart medications: Are you taking any of them?
BY AMBER SMITH Some of the newer cardiac drugs were chemically designed in laboratories before going through years of expensive clinical trials and eventually gaining approval from the Food and Drug Administration. Some of the older drugs, which are still … Continue reading
How the Upstate pharmacy saved him $20,537.14
BY AMBER SMITH He went through a series of imaging tests, looking for an explanation for the pains in his stomach. After all the scans were complete, doctors delivered the news to Reginald Sanford of Syracuse. He had cancer in … Continue reading
Treatment for canine cancer serves as model for humans
BY JIM HOWE Treating cancer in dogs aims for a twofold benefit, says a Cornell University scientist: Help the sick animal and possibly find new ways to treat cancer in people. And no, she doesn’t have a secret lab where she implants … Continue reading
Posted in cancer, drugs/medications/pharmacy, health care, research
Tagged canine cancer, canine cancer trials, canine drug trials, canine lymphoma
Facing a crisis: Meet the Upstate experts working to solve the opioid epidemic
The opioid epidemic is fueled both by the abuse of street drugs such as heroin and the addiction to prescription painkillers. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says prescription opioids contribute to 40 percent of all opioid overdose deaths in the United … Continue reading
National media featuring Lola Muñoz raise attention for deadly brain cancer
BY AMBER SMITH Photographs of a 12-year-old patient of Melanie Comito, MD, accompanied recent stories in the Washington Post and National Geographic magazine. Lola Muñoz lived for 19 months after her diagnosis with a deadly brain cancer called DIPG, diffuse intrinsic … Continue reading
Giving hope to youth affected by cancer
BY SUSAN KEETER Charlie Poole, 16, went hiking in Highland Forest last spring. It was an accomplishment for a young man who, 26 months earlier, was diagnosed with a brain tumor that left him with weakness in the right side … Continue reading
Posted in adolescents, brain/neurology, cancer, drugs/medications/pharmacy, health care, patient story, Upstate Golisano Children's Hospital/pediatrics, volunteers
Tagged diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, DIPG (diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma}, H.O.P.E. (Helping Oncology Patients and Families Engage)