Prevention Science Should Be a Higher Federal Funding PriorityBy Linda P. FriedDean and DeLamar Professor of Public Health, Columbia University Mailman School of Public HealthOne of the great ironies of American health care is that we have the highest per capita spending among industrialized countries, yet we rank near the bottom in preventable health outcomes. A new [...]
We had a wonderful evening with our guests at Toyland Ball. We are proud and honored to support such a great a cause by underwriting the party favors! Inside the bags were delicious cookies and coffee was provided by Community Care of Oklahoma.
What Obama's Plan for 'Precision Medicine' Really MeansThe president wants to help develop new, more effective drugs.BY SAM BAKER January 20, 2015 President Obama used his State of the Union address Tuesday to launch a new initiative that would use the human genome to build better medical treatments.Obama called it the "Precision Medicine Initiative"—so what's precision medicine, [...]
To Screen For Cervical Cancer, An HPV Test Is Better Than A Pap SmearBy Andrew M. Seaman(Reuters Health) - Two medical organizations have recommended testing for the human papillomavirus (HPV) to screen women for cervical cancer before using a Papanicolaou - or Pap - smear for screening.The new guidance is not [...]
Sad news came via phone today from someone we are always glad to hear from and who brings the sunshine of South Louisiana to mid-Oklahoma. Brenda Shanley called to let us know her sister, Suzie Jacks had lost her eleven year battle with cancer. Our followers met Suzie as one of the CelebrationRoom [...]
SurvivorRoom is proud to be the Party Favor underwriter for the 2015 Toyland Ball. Toyland Ball, held every January, is The Parent Child Center of Tulsa’s annual signature fundraising event. Visit the Toyland Ball website to learn more about this wonderful event. We would love to see you there!www.toylandball.org
We got our first Facebook share across the Atlantic in Portugal! We can't be more excited that in less than 48 hours of being launched we are being seen in another country. And for all our friends outside the U.S., we do offer international shipping and you can find your currency in the bottom left [...]
We shall never forget last year! Not in the wildest of dreams did we ever expect to be a year in the making of SurvivorRoom. The original plan was three months designing and filling our site and then we would be taking orders and feeling like big e-commerce girls. A year later [...]