I must confess that, at one point, I also was part of the medical community who brushed off questions pertaining to nutritional support by advising…
Memorial Day is the time when we honor those who served our country and paid the ultimate price for our freedom. The Mesothelioma Applied Research…
The Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation would like to celebrate with the American Cancer Society (ACS) as it is turning 100. The American Cancer Society has…
By Laurie Kazan-Allen I am not one for graphs or bar charts but today I saw a diagram that really made sense. It plotted the…
By Mary Hesdorffer, Nurse Practitioner and Executive Director of the Meso Foundation In 1996 I began my career in clinical research which ultimately led to…
At this year’s Meso Foundation Symposium, Senator Chuck Schumer, along with Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney, Congressman Jerrold Nadler, Congressman Peter T. King,…
by Laurie Kazan-Allen The American humorist Bill Bryson once remarked that Britain was the only country which recognized breathing as a leisure time activity. The…
Last week, Meso Foundation staff and supporters represented the mesothelioma community in the Rally for Medical Research. Nearly 200 organizations participated to raise awareness about…
Yesterday, the White House released the President’s budget proposal for Fiscal 2014, two months later than the usual release on the President’s Day holiday in…
BAP1 is the first gene discovered in mesothelioma. Not everyone has the mutated copy of this gene and, in fact, we are just embarking on…