Revealing? Sure. Helpful? Maybe.
But “classy” and “brave”? I don’t think so.
Reporter with cancer: Angelina Jolie isn’t the brave one
A USA TODAY reporter weighs in on Angelina Jolie’s announcement today that she had a preventative double mastectomy. Olivia Barker writes: “And who are the brave ones in the country’s breast cancer conversation? They’re so quiet as to be all but ignored.”
What do you think?
My Medical Choice
This is the full op-ed from Angelina Jolie on her double mastectomy.
Is breast cancer being sexualized? Many breast cancer survivors say a crop of pink-ribbon campaigns have hit a new low.
An online porn site this month has been using breast cancer to increase its Web traffic by offering to donate 1 cent for every 30 views of its videos. The intended recipient for the donation, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, rejected the offer and instructed the site to stop using its name.
More: http://usat.ly/Y8NE7P
Each of us is home to approximately 100 trillion microbes, from 10,000 different species. They outnumber human cells 10-to-1 and together are called the microbiome. The National Institutes of Health’s Human Microbiome Project just last month released its initial map of a “normal” microbial makeup.
Yet our microbes are under threat — and the enemy is us.
More: Our microbes, ourselves.
(Illustration by Suzy Parker / USA TODAY)
FDA approves the first rapid, take-home HIV test
The OraQuick test detects the presence of HIV in saliva collected using a mouth swab. It’s designed to return a result within 20 to 40 minutes.
It should be available in October and will cost less than $60.
