Topic: Breast Cancer

Lifetime's Mastectomy Petition - More Surface Than Substance?

Whenever I see a beautifully crafted dessert, I am always hopeful it will taste as good as it looks. More often than not though, I am disappointed by the incongruity between the attractive exterior and inferior interior. This is ...READ»

Misreading a Mammogram Med Mal

While most people think that an error in medications or treatment is medical malpractice, misreading the results of a test, such as a mammogram, is also considered to be medical malpractice.READ»

Bank Offers Free Health Care To Community: Now That’s Corporate Social Responsibility!

Corporate Social Responsibility is essential to build strong relationships with consumers. On the brink of collapse, Puerto Rico’s Doral Bank transformed itself with an aggressive CSR strategy. By offering free mammogram testing and education on health care for women, Doral bank has quickly established itself as a trusted community partner. READ»

In Your Jeans

Workplace fashion update! This week Friday, October 8, is National Denim Day, a business-related opportunity to support the fight against breast cancer. For the last eight years, corporate employees across the country have been ...READ»

Sony Announces Breast Cancer Awareness Laptop

October is Breast Cancer Awareness month, and in honor of that, Sony [SNE] is releasing a special-edition Vaio in two models to commemorate awareness. The models will both be light pink, the trademark color of the traditional breast ...READ»

Dr Peter Chang - Cosmetic Plastic Surgery

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Passion Play

Pallotta TeamWorks inspires intense loyalty from its customers by disrupting their lives, demanding their money, and subjecting them to physical pain. What is Dan Pallotta's secret?READ»

Are There Holes In My Genes?

A new industry promises to gauge your genetic risk of getting diseases like cancer. Our reporter takes a test.READ»

Fresh Start 2002: Roche's New Scientific Method

How does a giant pharmaceutical company reckon with genomics technology? By making a fresh start in how it recruits its scientists, manages projects, and uses computers. Here's how the Roche Group is reinventing how it invents.READ»

At Dinner With Bill George

"We connect through our weaknesses, not our strengths," says Bill George, former CEO of Medtronic and author of Authentic Leadership, "Human fraility is where we connect." George says that when he sent e-mails to Medtronic employees ...READ»

Inspiration by Design: A Journey Through Cancer with Paper and Glue

Artist Victoria Behm has chronicled her breast cancer ordeal in two achingly funny illuminated manuscripts, and shared them online. "I feel better now than I have since everything began," she says.READ»

• A Breast Cancer Notebook

End of Days

A novel office novel for Office aficionados.READ»

Digital Rx

When leaders of the Detroit Medical Center launched a major financial turnaround two years ago, they saw that they had a big money problem. Here's how the DMC is using digital remedies to treat its fiscal condition.READ»

The Agenda - Total Teamwork

Teams of doctors, nurses, and technicians at the world-renowned Mayo Clinic bring new-economy practices to "old-fashioned" medicine.READ»

Health Screening Tests That Everyone Needs

For the following diseases, the United States Preventive Services Task Force states that there are effective screening tests and that people should get them. Cervical cancer: The task force strongly recommends screening for ...READ»

Financial Women's Association Honors Exceptional Women in Business

At the annual dinner of the Financial Women's Association held at the Grand Hyatt in New York last week, two high achieving women were honored with the titles of private and public sector women of the year. Evelyn Lauder, ...READ»

Best Digital Practices in the Health Industry

Healthcare insurance, reform, H1N1, food contamination and countless stories that pull on our heartstrings are daily discussion topics in newsrooms, blogs and dining room tables across the nation. It should come as no surprise that many of the top 50 digital social-cause influencers are related to health. Health is clearly on the American mind. Now the question is why have...READ»

Kay Yow: Successful Coach, Positive Person

Self confidence is one of the keys to success that I discuss in Straight Talk for Success.  If you want to become self confident you need to do three things. 1) Become an optimist.  2) Face your fears and act.  3) Surround yourself ...READ»