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How Artificial Intelligence Is Being Used to Help Physicians Identify Cancer Earlier: AI tools can analyze images and tissue samples more quickly and effectively, leading to more accurate diagnoses -
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How Hip-Hop Therapy is Healing Communities: Hip-Hop Therapy empowers healing through music, self-expression and community
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Author Archives: Kathleen Clohessy Editor-in Chief/SevenPonds
Medicare to Tie Nursing Home Payments to Hospital Readmission Rates
Will trying to curb the "boomerang effect" place more patients at risk?
Beginning this October, Medicare will begin penalizing nursing homes with higher than average hospital readmission rates, according to a June 19 report in MedPage Today. In an ongoing effort to curb preventable hospital readmissions, the agency will reward nursing homes … Continue reading
What Is Conscious Dying?
An interview with hospice social worker, musician and conscious dying guide Deb Grant, Part Two
Today SevenPonds concludes our interview with Deb Grant, a hospice social worker, sound healing practitioner and conscious dying guide who provides soothing music at the bedsides of those who are nearing the end of life. A cancer survivor herself, Deb has a deep … Continue reading
Human Longevity, Death Rates and the “Mortality Plateau”
A new study suggests there may be no "upper limit" to human longevity
A new report published in the journal Science suggests that there may not be a “biological limit” to human longevity. This is just the latest addition to a contested issue within the demographic community. The report analyzed survival probabilities of about … Continue reading
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Tagged Aging, Centarian, Extreme old age, Human Lifespan, Human Longevity, Mortality Plateau
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“I Want to Die” — The Link Between Cancer and Suicide
Far too many people with cancer choose to take their own lives
“The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche Receiving a cancer diagnosis is devastating. Suddenly, without warning, the world as you knew it comes to an … Continue reading
How Can Music Help Ease Pain and Suffering at the End of Life?
An interview with hospice social worker and sound healing practitioner, Deb Grant, Part One
Today SevenPonds speaks with Deb Grant, a hospice social worker, sound healing practitioner and conscious dying guide who provides soothing music at the bedsides of those who are nearing the end of life. A cancer survivor herself, Deb has a … Continue reading
