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All posts by David Emerson

Tips for Caregivers – Choosing the Right Medical Alert System

Medical alert systems, fall monitor, medical-emergency-response-system (MERS), or personal-emergency-response-system (PERS.) These systems provide seniors with a tool for independent living, as well as

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Mind-Body Therapy for Multiple Myeloma…Marriage!?

Mind-Body Therapy is one of the most inexpensive, convenient, under appreciated yet most effective multiple myeloma therapies available today. With every multiple myeloma diagnosis comes a prognosis. It

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Multiple Myeloma Side Effects- AMD Prevention, Eye Health

The leading cause of legal blindness, age-related macular degeneration affects more than 10 million Americans — more than cataracts and glaucoma combined Aggressive, high-dose chemotherapy and radiation

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Myeloma- Cord Decompression Surgery

“Vertebral disease is a major cause of morbidity in 70% of patients diagnosed with multiple myeloma (MM). Associated osteolytic lesions and vertebral fractures are well documented in causing debilitating

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Multiple Myeloma By the Numbers

“Survival (Multiple Myeloma) varies depending upon a host of factors: the stage of disease, biology including cytogenetic abnormalities and response to therapy. I think it was Mark Twain who said

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Myeloma- Dark Chocolate- Skin, Heart, Brain

regular cocoa flavanol/dark chocolate consumption had positive effects on facial wrinkles and elasticity. Cocoa flavanol supplementation may contribute to the prevention of the progression of photo-aging I

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Multiple Myeloma Survivor- Prevent Depression, Prevent Relapse

Research Cites both Curcumin and Omega-3 Fatty Acids as effective in patients with diagnosis of MDD and on depressive patients without diagnosis of MDD” For a long time I was a multiple myeloma

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How to Choose an Affordable Dentist in Jacksonville Fl?

In the United States and Canada, there are ten recognized dental specialties in which some dentists choose to train and practice… Are you looking for a new dentist? You probably aren’t looking

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Multiple Myeloma Treatment- CBD w/ Velcade, Darzalex, Kyprolis?

“These results showed that CBD by itself or in synergy with BORT strongly inhibited growth, arrested cell cycle progression and induced MM cells death…” Hi David-  I am a 60 year old

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Newly Diagnosed Multiple Myeloma- Neck Plasmacytoma

I presented with an almost identical situation. Single plasmacytoma in C5, (C4 had collapsed on C6) chunk of hip placed as a strut in between C4 and C6, etc. Hello David- My name is Mary and I’ve

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Surviving Multiple Myeloma- Counseling as Therapy

Mind-Body Therapies are Just as Important to Multiple Myeloma Survivors as Conventional Therapies Such as Chemotherapy and Radiation If you are surviving multiple myeloma (patient or survivor) you understand

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Multiple Myeloma Side Effects- Heal Chemobrain, Dementia

“These satisfactory results confirm the therapeutic importance of acetyl-L-carnitine in the treatment of elderly patients with mental impairment…” Cognitive decline, chemobrain, post-chemotherapy

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