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12/05/2018

🔊Congressional Leaders are making their decisions on which bills will be included in year-end packages. 🔊

WE NEED THE LTA TO PASS THIS YEAR!!!!

Please call the following four offices and ask them to include the LTA!

* House Speaker, Representative Paul Ryan: 202-225-3031

* Ways & Means Committee Chairman, Representative Kevin Brady: 202-225-4901

* Majority Leader, Senator Mitch McConnell: 202-224-2541

* Finance Committee & LTA Co-lead, Senator Chuck Grassley: 202-224-3744

Phone script:
“I’m calling to urge [Representative/Senator NAME] to include the Lymphedema Treatment Act (S.497/H.R.930) in the omnibus spending bill or other year-end package. With 448 cosponsors, this bipartisan and bicameral bill is the most widely supported healthcare bill in Congress. Millions of Americans with lymphedema - the majority of them cancer survivors - need this bill passed now.”

11/19/2018

Prior authorization is an important step toward having your insurance pay for your care. All types of providers are working hard to make sure you recieve the necessary treatment to have a good, functional life.

Patients and physicians tell their tales from the front about how prior authorization hampers care by delaying treatment.

10/30/2018

The lymphology world has lost a great man. His efforts brought great healing and understanding to many.

Prof. Michael Földi, MD, has passed away at the age of 98. Prof. Földi and his wife, Prof. Etelka Földi, MD, are pioneers of modern lymphology. Together, they established the world-renowned Földi Clinic and the Földi College in Hinterzarten, Germany. We honor his legacy. He will be forever missed.

08/20/2018

Why are certain practices beneficial? Here are some practical answers.

I recently read a scientific paper, published this year in the Journal of Oncology (see paper), with great interest. It linked the activity of the vagus nerve with cancer prognosis. Why is this imp...

08/12/2018

Here's a better way to adapt to the size change of feet as MLD/CDT reduce the size of your feet (or if the heat and going barefoot has increased their size).

06/17/2018

Knowledge with Beauty
Lymph Question of the Day

The aorta (the heart) is at the beginning of the macrocirculatory system. Where does it direct blood to?

It directs blood to the systemic circulatory system as blood exits the left ventricle.

FÖLDI’s Textbook of Lymphology, Roman Raizen/Unsplash

06/15/2018

Knowledge with Beauty
Lymph Question of the Day

Question:

Blood vessels that lead away from the heart are called arteries. What are vessels that lead toward the heart called?

Answer:

Veins

FÖLDI’s Textbook of Lymphology, Lou Liebau/Unsplash