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Tomatoes are Not So Effective in Preventing Prostate Cancer

.... It is disappointing, since lycopene might have offered a simple and inexpensive way to lower prostate cancer risk for men concerned about this common disease," said Ulrike Peters, Ph.D., M.P.H., of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. "Unfortunately, this easy answer just does not work." Peters ...

Library Of Brains To Aid Study of Brain Development In Children

Scientists today offered their first insights at research on a group of "super-healthy" children from six U.S. cities whose brains will serve as models of typical childhood development. Initial results from the National Institutes of Health study suggest that healthy chil...

Minorities Prefer Counseling and Prayer to Drugs for Treating Depression

...of an anonymous Internet depression-screening test offered free on the health information Web site InteliHealth, owned by Aetna US Healthcare. The researchers collected information from 78,753 people who had taken the test between January 1999 and April 2002. To our knowledge, there are no prior studies ex...

Myths About Melanoma Could Lead to Delayed Diagnosis and Treatment

... diagnosis was designed more than 20 years ago, it offered a tool for physicians to aid in distinguishing potentially cancerous lesions from benign pigmented moles. The ABCD acronym stands for Asymmetry (meaning one half of the mole is different from the other), Border Irregularity (the edges or borders of m...

Google to Digitise 800,000 Books at Mysore Varsity

...on public domain," he said, adding that Google has offered them free service. "Google has offered to digitise theses manuscripts as well as 700,000 other books free of cost. Google India chief (Eric...

Sacked Employee Says Stress Led to His Sex Addiction

...ngful dismissal." He argues that IBM should have offered him sympathy and treatment instead of sacking him....elp them, and that his client too should have been offered the same treatment. IBM has asked a judge to dismiss the case, saying sexual behavior disorders a...

Choice is a Key Element in Success for Smokers Who Want to Quit

..., more successes. Williams said the cessation plan offered additional support to smokers that a typical doctor's office doesn't. "I don't think they get enough time and I don't think they get enough input and choice into the quit plan," Williams said. "Our findings showed it was particularly important to p...

Diabetics in Nursing Homes Need Improved Care

...ocols for diabetes in nursing homes. These will be offered to medical directors of these facilities in order to improve the quality and consistency of patient care. Some things are done extremely well in nursing homes for instance, foot exams and influenza vaccinations, Shubrook said. Others are not done ...

Breast Cancer Patients Follow-up Devalued

...med to NICE guidelines; * only 18% of specialists offered patients a choice of follow-up protocol, of whom only 9% routinely gave patients a written plan; * for invasive disease, 67% arranged annual mammograms, 9% every 18 months, 18% two-yearly, and 3% three-yearly. For non-invasive disease, the figures w...

New Device for Stroke Patients Improves Walking

...which recently received FDA clearance and has been offered to patients at Weill Cornell beginning this year -- is worn on the lower-leg and foot in place of a traditional foot brace. Sensors detect whether the patient's foot is in the air or on the ground, and electrodes transmit painless electrical stimulat...

New Respiratory Virus in Children Linked to Cancer Discovered

...the discovery was particularly exciting because it offered hope to children with severe but unidentifiable RTIs. Knowing the polyomavirus was a cause of RTIs in children would enable doctors to isolate them from others with weak immune systems and stop unnecessary antibiotic medication. However, parent...

CMPMedica Adds Oncology Search Engine to SearchMedica.com

...logy is the third specialty-specific search engine offered through SearchMedica.com, a free Web-based service that connects physicians and other medical professionals to credible medical Web sites, online journals and other clinical resources. All SearchMedica Oncology search results are independent, unbiase...

Astrazeneca's Investigational Cancer Therapies Revealed at ASCO

...oyees. For nearly three decades, AstraZeneca has offered drug assistance programs side by side with its medicines, and over the past five years, has provided over $3 billion in savings to more than 1 million patients throughout the US and Puerto Rico. AstraZeneca has been named one of the "100 Best Compani...

Cuba is Exporting Healthcare Now

...ict, and that surprised me," Thompson said. Castro offered scholarships for low-income Americans under the same terms as the other international students -- they have to agree to go back and serve their communities. Today, about 90 young people from poor parts of the United States have joined the ranks of ...

Taiwan Skincare Empire Built on 'Natural Beauty'

...heir homes, even after they married. My business offered them a chance to work with dignity, without jeopardising their family lives, in a respected profession,' she said. The NB beauty salon franchise mushroomed over the next quarter of a century with some 1,500 outlets across the island at its peak, se...

Pramlintide-A Boon to Restrain Fast Food Consumption

...ato chips, cookies and soft drinks. They were also offered an evening snack that included peanut butter sandwiches and a cookie. On inpatient days 2, 4, and 44, participants received a high-fat, high-sugar lunch that included deep-dish pizzas, ice cream and high fructose corn syrup-sweetened soft drinks. The...

Drugs Lure Hong Kong Youth Across China Border

...ers." It was at a Shenzhen club that she was first offered ketamine, a so-called party drug to which she later became addicted. Club owners here target the Hong Kong market because they can afford higher entrance fees than local people and drinks that cost three times more. "Most of our customers are from ...

Experts Stresses the Need for National Vaccination Policy

...ation story began in 1948 when the BCG vaccine was offered for immunity from tuberculosis (TB). Sixty years on, the government estimates that 17 million people are carrying the TB virus. India needs nearly 60 million BCG vaccines every year. It imports about 20 million doses through the UN children's agenc...

New York Legislature Highlights for Awareness of Alzheimer's Disease

...ated National Memory Screening Day in 2002 and has offered the event in collaboration with community-based organizations nationwide each November. Both National Memory Screening Day and Memory Screening Day in New York will be held on November 13 this year. For more information, visit http: www.nationalmemor...

Zimbabwe Receives 15m Dollars of AIDS Drugs from US

... filled and we were delighted when you came in and offered what you offered to us," Parirenyatwa said at a ceremony which was also attended by US ambassador Christopher Dell. ...

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