North Texas & Dallas Ft. Worth Sarcoidosis Support Network

01/18/2014

Robert Epperson had a lung lavage. He was fitted with a chest percussor, a vest that shook his chest, while doctors intubated him, allowing one lung to breathe for two, and literally washed the other lung with a saline solution, cleaning out the excess surfactant from his air spaces. Then they...

01/15/2014

A common viral infection and its subsequent immunologic machinations and manifestations may help explain why, in some individuals, the immune system turns against itself in the potentially devastating

12/14/2013

Search by Name, Speciality, Program, or Research Make a Donation Make an Appointment Ask a Question Refer a Patient 1.877.CALL NJH ( ) About Us > Newsroom > Nabeel Hamzeh, MD ,assistant professor of medicine at National Jewish Health, has received anAmerican Thoracic Society/Foundation for Sarcoidos...

10/12/2013

09/18/2013

Sarcoidosis research finds promising oral therapy. VUMC researchers have reported promising results in using oral antimycobacterial therapy to treat chronic cutaneous sarcoidosis, considered by clinicians a difficult illness to effectively control.

07/12/2013

Advances in sarc research...

ANAHEIM, Calif., July 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Questcor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: QCOR) today announced its intent to initiate a pilot commercialization effort for H.P. Acthar(R) Gel (repository corticotropin injection) for the treatment of respiratory manifestations of symptomatic sarcoidosis,...

09/26/2011

An interesting blog article on healthcare pricing and why the price varies so much from patient to patient. Realize that what you pay can be a lot more or a lot less than someone else who is having the same procedure or care.

Take a look at the chart below. It shows representative prices for a knee replacement for different patients in different settings. The most shocking thing about the chart is that prices for essentially the same procedure are all over the map. Here are some obvious questions:

09/09/2011

Looking for alternative strategies for your personal healing strategy... Take a look @ this article about SuperBetter, a game to aid in resilience and recovery.

Deeply impacted by a traumatic brain injury in 2009, and struggling with traditional therapy, Jane McGonigal created a game--SuperBetter--to help heal herself. It worked. Since then, the best-selling author and game designer has been creating SuperBetter the platform to empower anyone to create a br...

08/28/2011

Our next meeting is currently scheduled for Oct 22. We are considering inviting a speaker... If so, what topic would you be interested in hearing about?

08/25/2011

Dissatisfied with your doctor(s)? You are not alone...

by Carolyn Thomas If you sometimes feel like you don't get enough respect from your physician, you may not be alone. In fact, two new global studies from 23 countries show that two-thirds of pat...

08/20/2011

"Ultimately, asking the right questions is more important than giving a label to a set of observations."

After 30 years of practicing Medicine, I have learned that for any chronic illness or ailment, treating underlying imbalances and dysfunctions is more important than making a diagnosis and naming the disease. Ultimately, asking the right questions is more important than giving a label to a set of ob...

08/02/2011

Next Meeting: Saturday August 27, 2011 Noon - Details to be posted shortly...