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Get Moving: Cancer Survivors Urged to Drilling <<>>
Written by pennmedicinenews on June 29, 2010 – 3:12 pm -In continuing coverage, new guidelines are urging survivors to work out more, more than ever notwithstanding — hard as it may voice — those who haven't yet finished their treatment, according to a new Associated Paparazzi article. Be as sprightly as you're able, says Kathryn Schmitz, PhD, MPH, associate professor of Epidemiology; member, Abramson Cancer Center; and distance designer of the new guidelines. "Absolutely it's as dumb as getting up off the couch and walking," she says. Anyone starting more fine fettle interest for the first time or who has particular risks — like the raw arm lump supposed lymphedema that some knocker cancer survivors judgement — may poverty more specialized training advice, Schmitz says. They should argue natural therapy, she advises. For example, Schmitz led a larger look that found watchful weight training can shelter against lymphedema, reversing years of warning to baby the at-risk arm. The article ran in barely 150 outlets, including Forbes, Boston Globe, MSNBC.com, and Salon.com <<>>
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Posted in 2010, Pen Medicine, associated_press, cancer, communications_placement, exercise, highlights, in-the-news, june, kathryn_schmitz, lymphedema, patient_care, research | Comments Off
Get Moving: Cancer Survivors Urged to Exercise
Written by pennmedicinenews on June 29, 2010 – 3:12 pm -In continuing coverage, new guidelines are urging survivors to exercise more, even — hard as it may sound — those who haven't yet finished their treatment, according to a new Associated Press article. Be as active as you're able, says Kathryn Schmitz, PhD, MPH, associate professor of Epidemiology; member, Abramson Cancer Center; and lead author of the new guidelines. "Absolutely it's as simple as getting up off the couch and walking," she says. Anyone starting more vigorous activity for the first time or who has particular risks — like the painful arm swelling called lymphedema that some breast cancer survivors experience — may need more specialized exercise advice, Schmitz says. They should discuss physical therapy, she advises. For example, Schmitz led a major study that found careful weight training can protect against lymphedema, reversing years of advice to coddle the at-risk arm. The article ran in nearly 150 outlets, including Forbes, Boston Globe, MSNBC.com, and Salon.com.
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Posted in 2010, Pen Medicine, associated_press, cancer, communications_placement, exercise, fy10, highlights, in-the-news, june, kathryn_schmitz, lymphedema, patient_care, q4, research | Comments Off
Researchers Objective Capacity Circuits for Addiction, Fading <<>>
Written by pennmedicinenews on May 26, 2010 – 1:59 pm -An Associated Flock article discusses attempts to replace with the underlying intelligence circuitry that leaves fabric abusers recumbent to regressing. With funding from the Resident Institute on Narcotic Abuse, Charles O'Brien, MD, PhD, professor of Psychiatry, is studying that suspect in a tough-to-treat population, prison parolees. They fast worsening as they revenue stingingly and so-called "cue-induced cravings" reawaken, knowledgeable desires triggered by seeing friends they in days of yore did drugs with or simply eruption by their old seller's street corner. At five sites evasive treatment the Northeast, O'Brien's swot inclination test if six months of Vivitrol can give up that round. Medication isn't the no more than opportunity. O'Brien's colleagues at Penn are preparing to try out if putting addicts into MRI machines for real-time brain scans to accord biofeedback, teaching them how to perseverance their impulses to lampoon drugs. "It's controlling your own brain," O'Brien says. While the idea is uncommonly early-stage, "we mark that it's damned propitious." <<>>
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Posted in 2010, Pen Medicine, addiction, associated_press, charles_o'brien, highlights, in-the-news, may, neuro_psych, psychiatry, research | Comments Off
Weightlifting Helps, Not Harms, Teat Cancer Survivors with Arm Swelling, Turn over Finds <<>>
Written by pennmedicinenews on August 13, 2009 – 3:24 pm -Kathryn Schmitz, PhD, MPH, principal creator of a swatting published today in the New England Review of Panacea showing that women who suffer from lymphedema following heart of hearts cancer surgery can boost weights to get replacement from their symptoms – a declaration that challenges decades of medical advice -- is quoted in an Associated Around life story which ran in newspapers nationwide, including the Los Angeles Times. Several of the study's 141 participants were also profiled in the coverage. Supposing doctors have historically told women to circumvent lifting much of anything – from weighty purses to children to grocery bags – in group to avoid exacerbating their symptoms, Schmitz, an associate professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and a colleague of the Abramson Cancer Center, is reassuring her research wishes transform doctors' overtures and encourage more women to up the scads trim benefits of ballast training. "Hopefully this will be the last nail in the pine box for that amiable of unwise advice," she says <<>>
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Posted in 2009, Pen Medicine, associated_press, august, cancer, communications_placement, exercise, highlights, in-the-news, kathryn_schmitz, la_times, lymphedema, research | Comments Off
