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"If traditional birth attendants can help people have babies, we can teach retired schoolteachers how to teach people to deal with arthritis." —Kate Lorig, RN, Dr.PH, professor of medicine, on a Stanford program that teaches self-management skills to people living with arthritis. San Francisco Chronicle, April 26.
"I don't think people are going to jump to making this the standard of care." —Paul Fisher, MD, associate professor of neurology, pediatrics and neurosurgery, commenting on a new study that found lighting up brain tumors results in more thorough removal of tumors and a significant delay in cancer recurrence for patients. HealthDay, April 28.
"If doing a game like this can help people feel less helpless, less overwhelmed, and give them a greater sense of understanding and control over what's going on in their bodies, they may be managing the body's stress resources better." —David Spiegel, MD, the Jack, Samuel and Lulu Willson Professor in Medicine, discussing a video game used by cancer patients to help relieve their suffering. KTVU-TV, April 25.