Heather L Barrand

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• Anyone Can Help Breast Cancer Researchers: Here's How

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• How Can I Manage Heartburn?

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• Advice for a New Nurse

  It’s widely accepted that being a new nurse is hard. No matter whether you have started your nursing career just yesterday or three decades ago, you have to face some unique challenges. Fortunately, you can always find the advice of those nurses who have entered into the nursing field before you....

• New Cancer Therapy Shows Promise to Treat a Rare Type of Lymphoma

  A new treatment for cancer, called checkpoint inhibitors, are showing promise with several types of cancer, including a rare type of lymphoma, called gray zone lymphoma.Immune checkpoint inhibitors are drugs produced by pharmaceutical companies that are often made of antibodies. Researchers are...