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Joseph also served as a director of the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation, which raises money for research on multiple myeloma, a rare blood cancer that he struggled with. Louise M. Perkins, chief scientific officer of the MMRF, remembered Joseph as “an incredibly gentle and patient...

Author: By Julie M. Zauzmer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Joseph, 72, Was Leader on Wall Street | 12/1/2009 | See Source »

...would indeed suggest an endocrine problem, like diabetes, says Lustig, but many of the conditions that cause the body to lose vital proteins are not endocrine in nature. If a patient were losing the proteins through urine, diabetes could be an explanation, but so could other conditions, including multiple myeloma, a cancer that causes symptoms ranging from bone pain to weight loss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Ailing Steve Jobs? Medical Opinion Varies | 1/6/2009 | See Source »

...Addressing a weekly clinic for “The Molecular and Cellular Basis of Medicine,” a required introductory course for first-year medical and dental students, Medical School professor Paul G. G. Richardson was accompanied by a patient diagnosed with myeloma, a potentially deadly blood cancer...

Author: By June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Medical School Students Push to Codify Conflict of Interest Polices | 11/14/2008 | See Source »

...Richardson added, bortezomib was in fact approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration this June as a first-line treatment for myeloma...

Author: By June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Medical School Students Push to Codify Conflict of Interest Polices | 11/14/2008 | See Source »

...David Mejia is a 39-year-old former systems engineer in Colorado who was found to have multiple myeloma. He recalls falling into a deep depression during treatments. "I didn't want to talk to anybody," he says. "The phone would ring, but I didn't want to pick it up." Mejia describes the massage therapy he received to relieve tightness in his joints as also a form of treatment for his depression. "It doesn't just make my body feel good -it makes my spirit feel good," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Just What the Doctor Ordered: A Massage | 10/22/2008 | See Source »

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