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Health Check: do you need to stretch before and after exercise?

Many of us recognise the benefit of exercise to improve our health and reduce th...
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Treatment Needed?

Hi All, My last CBC report (03 days back) was very depressing. My WBC has raised...
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Probiotics Revisited

Just got back from my last 6 weeks checkup. Both of the main markers for CLL th...
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New blog from physician with CLL

I wanted to point out to you an ongoing series of blogs by a US physician who ha...
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Thunderclap

Hello All, A UK charity I am involved with is staging a Thunderclap in Septembe...

CLLSA's 10th Anniversary

We are celebrating the 10th anniversary of the CLL Support Association. I wrote ...

Treatment begins this Thursday

August 25, 2015 CBC blood draw, my hemoglobin is 7.6, platelets 12, WBC 156. Yet...
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ASH 2014. Dr. Sharman discusses the biology of our CLL cells

Friends, This week on the CLL Society website http://cllsociety.org, we share t...
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splinter won't heal

I have a tiny, tiny splinter in my thumb that became so swollen that I made an a...
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Join me in a nice cup of tea?

Having a cup of tea is a very British tradition, with the UK being the fifth hig...
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Congratulations to Chris on reaching 1,000 posts (and many many replies)!

In the not quite 3 years of this community's existence, barely a day goes by wit...
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Stable

Hi All Had my 6 monthly today still stable physically but not sure about mental...
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leukaemia & microRNA could we be looking at a not to distant break-threw

Scientists believe they may have found a way to "turn off cancer" by reverting c...
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Joe Parzych,

Am a relapsed CLL patient, residing in West suburban Chicago. First diagnosed in...
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Is a universal flu vaccine on the horizon?

Medical research scientists are getting closer to creating a universal flu vacci...
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Have You Dropped in on the CLL "Patient Cafe"?

Dear HU members, I know most of your are in the UK, but we've been piloting some...

UPDATE : Spleen & leukemia fungemia or Bacteremia

As some will know I asked if anyone knew what those chain light calls rods where...

Latest results and musing on my own blood work

Hi friends, I have gotten out of the habit of posting my personal news and musi...
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Diet - Lymphoma matters

Last week I received, in the snailmail a copy of Lymphoma matters, a quarterly m...

Mobile phone data can track the spread of infectious diseases

Any technology can be put to good and bad uses; Researchers at Princeton Univers...
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Vomiting machine projects better understanding of how stomach bugs spread

Norovirus infections cause inflammation in the stomach and intestines leading to...
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Wearable tech could diagnose lung problems by analyzing wheezes

"If someone is wheezing, it usually means that they have a respiratory problem. ...
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How are air borne infections spread and how can we protect ourselves against them? Are face/procedure/surgical masks any good?

Infections can be caused by yeasts/fungi, protozoa, bacteria and viruses in redu...
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'Artificial Spleen' may be approved to treat Sepsis in a few years

"Sepsis is a common and frequently fatal medical complication that can occur whe...
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Anyone Know What Theses Cells Are Found In My BLOOD

I suffer low Igm and just finished curse of vitamin D3 stuff .. Under my microsc...
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Strange goings on

I note there seems to be some strange goings on regarding posts today. Highli...

My Take on 3 Interesting Papers on CLL from ASCO 2015

Friends, This week on CLL Society (http://cllsociety.org) in our 2015 conferenc...
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CLL & Fatigue - Thank You

Thanks to everyone that responded to my post of Aug 19, 2015. Finding this webs...

How religion affects well-being in cancer patients

Three meta-analyses, published in Cancer, indicate that religion and spiritualit...
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Getting a Throat Swab Culture from your friendly mosquitoes :)

It seems we are not alone in finding it difficult to have cultures taken to find...
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