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Friday, January 25th, 2008
Patients with stage II colon cancer, for whom there is ambiguous evidence about whether or not they should receive chemotherapy, survive longer if treated with fluorouracil and folinic acid than if they undergo surgery alone, according to the results of a prospective randomised trial. Cytotoxic chemotherapy is known to lower the risk of recurrence […]
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Thursday, January 24th, 2008
In a clinical trial published this week in PLoS Medicine, Charles Sawyers and colleagues looked at the safety of a drug called rapamycin in a selected group of patients who were undergoing surgery after recurrence of glioblastoma (a highly malignant tumor of the brain). In a related research in […]
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
Natrol, Inc., a premier marketer and manufacturer of nationally branded nutritional products, knows that many consumers need extra immunity support during wintertime. The hectic pace of family and social obligations prior to, during, and even following the holidays can stress the immune system due to unhealthy eating, lack of exercise, and too little sleep. All […]
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
Many smokers approach Great American Smokeout with anxiety. “Will this be the year I can finally quit for good?”Others are ambivalent.”I’ll quit one of these days; maybe after the holidays.”To the anxious and the ambivalent, Brad Collins says: If you’re not ready to quit today, there are steps you can take to prepare yourself for […]
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
Recently, scientists demonstrated the anti-cancer effects of silibinin, a major biologically active compound of milk thistle. Being widely used as a folk remedy for liver diseases, milk thistle is safe and well-tolerated, and it protects the liver from drug or alcohol-related injury. Silibinin is highly purified from milk thistle, with a defined chemical structure and […]
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Monday, January 21st, 2008
A new study by researchers in the US suggests that people who eat the least red and processed meat are the least likely to develop cancer compared to people who eat the most. The research is published in the journal PLoS Medicine and is the work of Amanda Cross and colleagues at the US […]
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Monday, January 21st, 2008
A smoking-prevention strategy that targets black fourth-graders and their parents is under study in urban and rural Georgia.Researchers want to know if they can keep these children from smoking and help smoking parents quit, according to Dr. Martha S. Tingen, nurse researcher at the Medical College of Georgia’s Georgia Prevention Institute, and Interim Program Leader […]
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Sunday, January 20th, 2008
Admin wrote: HealthDay - THURSDAY, Dec. 6 (HealthDay News) — A gel derived from blackraspberries, a fruit beverage and old-fashioned green tea all holdpotential promise as ways to treat or prevent different types of cancer,preliminary research suggests. (Link)
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Saturday, January 19th, 2008
The medical director of the Royal Liverpool Hospital described the amount of smokers who loiter at its entrance as “terrible” last night. Peter Williams added patients have verbally abused him and his colleagues when trying to move smokers on. His comments at a health and wellbeing scrutiny committee meeting followed criticism by its chairman, Cllr […]
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Saturday, January 19th, 2008
HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Dec. 26 (HealthDay News)– Chemotherapy drugs known asanthracyclines help boost survival for women with HER2-positive breastcancer who have undergone surgery, but they may not offer any survivalbenefit for those with HER2-negative tumors. (Link)
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