News stories from around the web

I am on the wards right now (for the next month. Ay yi yi.)....so in lieu of my outstanding prose, I offer you some choice snippets from around the blogosphere that may be of interest to you.

Continuing my crusade against obesity — and furthering my concerns that we are not looking at high BMI as the major risk factor for many serious illnesses, including cancer — here is an interesting summary of an article recently published that found an association between high BMI and more rapid aging of the brain, which may then be related to more rapid cognitive decline.

The New York Times just did an article on "slow medicine.” We here at HemOnc Today covered that topic months ago!

This blog discusses mounting evidence that a "wait and see" approach might be appropriate for some benign appearing breast lesions seen on mammography. The comments are almost as interesting as the article itself.

A blogger on NPR who is dealing with lung cancer wonders how oncology nurses and doctors do this job every day.

This is a nice update from The Wall Street Journal on Randy Pausch. Pausch is an amazing computer science professor who is dying of pancreas cancer, who gave his very inspirational "Last Lecture,” and has then had an awesome response to gemcitabine, and is, in my estimation, making the most out of an otherwise horrible situation. I have blogged about him before, but it is nice to see he is hanging in there. Warning! The video is a tear jerker.