Herceptin Approved for Early Breast Cancer In NZ

...ba href=/insomnia/a/b, anxiety, depression, runny or blocked nose, cold/flu-like symptoms, chest infection, worsening cough, pain on urination, diarrhoea, hair loss, muscle or joint soreness.

Serious: shortness of breath or breathing difficulty, severe cough, severe swelling of feet or legs, chest pain, abnormal heart beat, severe diarrhoea, feeling faint.Ask your oncologist if Herceptin is right for you.

Use strictly as directed.

If symptoms continue or if you experience side effects or would like further information, please talk to your oncologist or visit www.medsafe.govt.nz for Herceptin Consumer Medicine Information.

Herceptin (150mg and 440mg vials) is a funded medicine under Section H of the Pharmaceutical Schedule for patients who meet pre-defined criteria.

Herceptin is not funded for the treatment of early breast cancer.

A prescription charge and normal oncologist fees may apply.

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Message To Victims: It’s Not Your Fault

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“They’re in survival mode all the time, just as though they’d just gotten back from a war.

And most of the time, they’re not even aware they’re doing this.

They aren’t at all aware of the ways they’re trying to stay safe.

“Fear of betrayal; fear of trusting; insecurity about which way to go.

Those symptoms are internalized and manifested in a lot of ways,” she explained.

“The easiest way to connect that is going to be post-traumatic stress, which people most often identify with veterans.

Except, I could tell you that I see a lot of folks at New River [Mental Health], and I would say that about 75 percent – if not more – of the female clients that I see have trauma.

Many of them have never dealt with those issues.

They’re looking at depression, all kinds of [symptoms].

Except when you move all of that out of the way, it’s trauma.

The victims of sexual assault are as likely to blame themselves as are those around them.

As social beings, Cox said, people begin as children looking for their place in the broader society.

Parents are “good” in a child’s eyes, because they provide the essentials of survival.

When a parent or trusted adult betrays that trust through sexual abuse, the child blames himself, because he’s already established that parents are good.

That world-view carries forward to later life, Cox sai...

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And there are questions about the effectiveness of sleeping pills.  A study by researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School found that a change in sleep habits and attitudes was more effective in treating chronic ba href=/insomnia/a/b, over the short- and long-term, than sleeping pills (specifically Ambien).

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