| Clinics offer a gateway to holistic health
Wellness-oriented health care appeals to many, but acupuncture, chiropractic, massage and other alternative treatments often extend beyond the reach of pocketbooks and insurance coverage. A Renaissance Health in downtown Gresham offers an affordable pathway to holistic therapies as well as free health screenings for some patients. Through "Your Community Clinic," held on Wednesdays and Thursdays, the natural medicine center and health spa on Miller Avenue offers chiropractic adjustment, acupuncture treatment, massage therapy and physical therapy for $30 to $35 and a full doctor's visit for $50. As a participant in the state-funded Oregon Breast and Cervical Cancer Program, Renaissance also provides free breast and cervical cancer screenings, pap smears and blood-pressure checks to qualified women age 40 and older.
Green products sprouting all over
We've been showered with news of green products. Here is a sampling: • The Eco 'brella from Totes has a canopy made of recycled PET plastic bottles, frame that is from 70 percent recycled materials and a bamboo handle. The packaging is environmentally friendly, too: just a paper sleeve. $30 • Isotoner has bamboo and polyester-blend clogs, $24, and ballerina slippers, $22. Men's styles are $30. • Keds has printed slip-ons selling for $50 made from organic and recycled upper materials and rubber outsoles, and a pattern printed using water-based printing inks. In addition, $1 per pair will go to Artists for Humanity. • Guess by Marciano is launching Guess Green organic cotton men's T-shirts, $39, women's .
How Aging Affects Cancer Risk And Outcomes
As our population ages and senior citizens become a larger demographic, cancer researchers are focusing on the links between aging and cancer. Studies presented at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research, April 12 - 16, highlight the biological aspects of aging that are key to greater risk and poorer prognosis, and surgical outcomes.
Surgical resection and survival in octogenarians and younger age cohorts of patients diagnosed with non-small cell lung cancer: Abstract 5537
Although fewer of them undergo surgery, lung cancer patients in their 80s fare equally well following surgery as their younger counterparts, researchers report. The findings offer doctors potentially valuable guidance in treatment options for elderly patients, according to researchers.
Osceola Business briefs
The Wound Healing & Hyperbaric Center, 2912 17th St., at St. Cloud Regional Medical Center will open Monday.
The center will use advanced wound-care techniques to heal wounds that have resisted traditional treatment.
Physicians and clinicians will work with patients and their physicians to provide advanced treatments from bioengineered skin dressings to hyperbaric oxygen therapy.
"Every wound is unique," center director Reed Stephan said. "While the causes of chronic nonhealing wounds can be complex, our multidisciplinary team of physicians and clinicians has received extensive training in the latest advances in wound care and hyperbaric medicine. We develop a personalized treatment plan for each patient. Whatever it takes for healing to occur, we're equipped and staffed to make it happen."
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Chiropractor's fundraiser to help ailing girl's family with medical bills
Watching Breann LaManna chase her little brother around the house and stroke the hair of her Hannah Montana doll, you would assume she is a typical 11-year-old. But as you listen to her describing the agonizing chemotherapy treatments and pain she endured while fighting stage III Hodgkin Lymphoma, a rare form of childhood cancer, you can see that she has survived many hardships which forced her to grow up too soon. "The hardest part was the chemotherapy. I wasn't eating at all, and everything I ate came back up," said the bright-eyed Breann, who would quickly switch gears from discussing her medication schedule and experiences in the hospital to giggling with her family and talking about her return to school in March after being home-schooled since 2006. When she was 9, Breann's parents, Maria and Chris, took her to the doctor for allergies and a cough that was getting progressively worse.
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