Posts tagged with: global

World Record Participant Blog Badge

  Participate in the world-record setting merriment on Sunday, April 3, 2011.   Show your participation with everyone else with…Twitter?..Facebook?…Sure. Yes. But also with a blog badge/widget! Get yours today. If you’re unsure of how to post it to your... Read More

Tanning to Death

You wouldn’t think wealthy women ages 15 to 39 bear a greater burden of malignant melanoma, the most aggressive and deadliest of skin cancers. But they do. The culprit? Ultraviolet (UV) light exposure, most of which is attributable to tanning.... Read More

Resources for Your World-Record Setting Post

I am asking others to join me on Sunday, April 3, 2011, to help raise awareness of adolescent and young adult (AYA) cancer and set a world record. Whether you blog or not, there are plenty of ways to participate.... Read More

World Record Set. Prepare to Break It.

Last week I challenged others to help set a world record. Well, we did. We will actually try to break the record in a major way on the first day of National Young Adult Cancer Awareness Week, which starts April... Read More

Kangofu is Japanese for Nurse

Since I awoke Friday morning to the news of the 8.9 earthquake in Japan, I cannot shake the thoughts of our Japanese nursing colleagues. I have said many prayers for them as they live and work through this and ongoing... Read More

24 Hours. Let’s Set a World Record. Let’s WordPress Cancer.

Break Cancer is a “record setting bonanza brought to you by the LIVESTRONG Young Adult Alliance” aimed to bring awareness to adolescent and young adult, or AYA, cancer which impacts nearly 70,000 people age 15 to 39 each year. According... Read More

Nonprofit Leader International Fellowship

“Atlas Service Corps, Inc. (Atlas Corps), started in 2006, is an international network of nonprofit leaders and organizations that promotes innovation, cooperation, and solutions to address the world’s 21st century challenges”…oh, say, like the myriad healthcare issues worldwide. Apply for... Read More

Resourced: World Tobacco Atlas

In honor of National Cancer Prevention Month, I am sharing one of my favorite resources – the World Tobacco Atlas. It has great information and lovely maps and infographs. Tobacco is the world’s most preventable cause of cancer. It kills... Read More

Stop the World’s Greatest Killer

In the 30 seconds it takes for you to read this post, it will have claimed 135 lives. Think a communicable disease is the number one killer globally? Think again. Cancer kills more people annually than HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria... Read More

Thinking of You, Egyptian Nursing Colleagues

I’ve had a long day. It started at 5:45 AM as my electricity went out due to emergent, required rolling power outages across Texas – a state with roughly 22 million people. A large winter storm plaguing much of the... Read More