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...never easy to talk to patients about getting their colon probed from the inside by a 5-ft.-long tube, but it's a lot easier than it used to be, thanks to NBC host Katie Couric. After she lost her husband Jay Monahan, 42, to colon cancer in 1998, she launched a campaign to raise awareness of the importance of regular screenings--a campaign that may have done more than any doctor could to get people to make that crucial appointment. After Couric bravely had her colon screened on national television in 2000, researchers at the University of Michigan...
Terri Schiavo died last March 31 after her husband Michael, over the anguished protests of her parents and siblings, won the right to remove her feeding tube. The bitter battle--which played out on TV and drew in Congress, the President, even the Pope--is set to resume in bookstores this week as both Michael Schiavo and Terri's family release competing memoirs ahead of the first anniversary of her death...
...their book, A Life That Matters, Terri's parents and siblings disagree. The Schindlers blame Michael for her death and slam U.S. courts for allowing the removal of her feeding tube, equating that with the inhumanity of Nazi Germany. "Terri was killed for no reason," says her sister Suzanne...
...body. Of the six steps in her plan (see box), only one focuses on physical exercise. Her healthy menus feature dishes like guacamole wraps and whole-wheat pancakes, and the recipes are user friendly (a 1-oz. serving of cheese is described as the size of a lipstick tube) and not too restrictive (they include ingredients that other diets would deem indulgent, like maple syrup and grated Asiago cheese). She also emphasizes mental exercise. For example, to sharpen your focus, she advises keeping a journal. "You have to feel on the inside that you want to make this change...
...took out the plug, and fluid just gushed. I don't yell in the operating room and I don't like surgeons who do, but I sure yelled then."Give me a basin, now". The fluid coming out of the tube going into Charlie's knee was fluorescent green, a neon, lime-firefly color that I had never seen associated with anything having to do with the human body. We had to get that stuff...