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Early Prostate Cancer: Specialty of Physician Influences Type of Therapy Received

...ause specialists who treat prostate cancer tend to favor the treatment they themselves deliver, despite the fact that no one has shown one treatment for early stage prostate cancer to be better than another," said Thomas L. Jang, MD, MPH, a physician in the Department of Urology, at Memorial Sloan-Ketterin...

Multinationals Exploit Groundwater Sources, and People Suffer

... In March 2005, the Siskiyou County Court ruled in favor of the community groups and the contract was voided. But Nestl appealed and was victorious in the appellate court, and this round of legal battles ended just last month when the state Supreme Court decided not to hear the case. But the battle continu...

Most Parents in U.S. Not in Favor of HPV Vaccine Mandates

...hildrens Health, only 44 percent of parents are in favor of a school mandate for the HPV vaccine. The repor... We found that a minority of U.S. parents are in favor of an HPV vaccine mandate for school entry, and that more than one-quarter of parents unequivocally ...

Is Presumed Consent the Answer to Organ Shortages?

...g communities to help build the necessary trust to favor organ donation, and increasing our knowledge of what influences donation rates are also important. Finally, meeting the demand for organs may require not only increasing organ supply but also optimizing disease prevention and recipient selection, s...

Work Less to Sustain Planet Earth, Say Activists

... a healthy society and planet, is being negated in favor of that."...

Vitamins may Not Ward Off Pneumonia

... Although anyone can get pneumonia, it appears to favor older people, children, and those with certain heart conditions, diabetes, sickle cell anemia, and other chronic diseases. Pneumonia is also more likely to prey on those whose immune systems have been compromised by AIDS, cancer treatments, organ t...

IT Delays Putting Patient Safety at Risk, Say Senior NHS Staff

.... The staff we interviewed were unreservedly in favor of IT modernization, say the authors but this support will quickly diminish unless more progress is achieved. They believe that Connecting for Health needs to address the uncertainty experienced by trusts and take responsibility for advising about...

Cancer Cells Reprogram Energy Needs To Grow And Spread

... cells to stop using a highly efficient process in favor of one that generates much less energy, says Gregg Semenza, M.D., Ph.D., professor of pediatrics and director of the vascular biology program in the Institute for Cell Engineering at Johns Hopkins. But turning down the thermostat in a sense, may g...

Single Americans Vote Less, but Lean Towards Democrats: Study

...heir wedded counterparts in elections, tending to favor Democrats over Republicans, said a study published Friday. Single Americans 15 years of age and older now account for 45.2 percent of the US population, against 34.4 percent in 1960, Women's Voices Women Vote said in its study titled "Unmarried Ame...

Childrens Health Program Covering More Adults Than Children

...ing a larger welfare state. Both parties are in favor to reauthorizing the bill, but how it expands financially and who it will cover are still a large part of the debate....

Lancets Report Condemns UKs Mental Health Bill

... published last week found fewer people in England favor a more tolerant attitude to those with mental illness than in 1994. The Lancet comments: "This opinion is unsurprising. Mental illnesses are not perceived to be as serious as physical ones, by the public and government alike." According to critics,...

WBC Selective About Sugar

...s. Antibiotics and antifungals tilt the balance in favor of the immune system by targeting the microbes directly. A substance like beta-1,6-glucan could help tilt this balance further by stimulating immune cells. Rubin-Bejeranos work offers hope for combating the growing problem of microbial infections, ...

Americas Best Hospital Reduced Heart Attack Rates

...rs speculate. Citations by cardiologists likely favor tertiary centers with strong subspecialty care for the most critically ill patients while not necessarily reflecting the perceived care for the overwhelming majority of admissions for more common diagnoses, which in turn have a more substantial impac...

Fat Horses Face Health Problems

...idant defense mechanisms, and that imbalance is in favor of the oxidants, said Thatcher. Those free radicals and reactive oxidant species can affect macromolecules in the body such as lipids, DNA and proteins, ultimately causing cell death or changing the functionality of these macro-molecules. Other ...

Kids With Crohn's Disease are at Ease Now

...f these very powerful medications clearly needs to favor a successful therapeutic outcome, said Dubinsky. Drieband adds that, the new center is wonderful. Its really cozy and more private than the adult infusion center where I used to go. I can watch a movie but I usually fall asleep....

Arnold Schwarzenegger Blamed for Backtracking in the Fight Against Carbon Emission

...ern of interference by the governor's top staff in favor of industry lobbyists seeking to weaken or stall air pollution regulations, including the state's landmark global warming law and proposed regulations on diesel construction equipment and wood products containing formaldehyde. "They were ordering u...

Pediatricians Face Malpractice Crisis

...nt to trial, and of these 4 out of 5 were found in favor of the pediatrician. During the 20-year period, 214,226 closed malpractice claims were reported to a database maintained by the Physician Insurer Association of America, a trade association of medical malpractice insurance companies. Together, thes...

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