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Reuters - Declines in death rates from the
four leading types of cancer in the United States since the
early 1990s have been driven largely by progress among
college-educated men and women, researchers said on Tuesday.

Reuters - Declines in death rates from the
four leading types of cancer in the United States since the
early 1990s have been driven largely by progress among
college-educated men and women, researchers said on Tuesday.

AP - QUACK RESEARCH? The government wants to test chelation, a treatment for lead poisoning, on children with autism — even though there’s no evidence it leads to improvements.

AP - Pressured by desperate parents, government researchers are pushing to test an unproven treatment on autistic children, a move some scientists see as an unethical experiment in voodoo medicine.

Reuters - Legislation that cut fees doctors
receive for giving chemotherapy to Medicare patients has not
affected care so far, researchers reported on Tuesday.

AP - A prostate cancer study that could change how doctors treat some patients found that widely used hormone-blocking drugs did not improve survival chances for older men whose disease hadn’t spread.

I have had two basal cell carcinoma skin cancers taken off of my body in the past five years, and because of my family history of skin cancer - actually, melanoma (my grandfather on my dad’s side actually died of a melanoma skin cancer), I had them both surgically removed.  Actually how it went was […]

Reuters - Everyone knows what too much television
can do to the mind and what too little exercise can do to the
body, but a Canadian study has now shown that the boob tube can
also lead to an increase in how much we eat.

Reuters - Regular daily exercise benefits
elderly women with dementia and these benefits appear to accrue
over time, researchers from the Republic of Korea report.

AFP - Declining physical activity and a shift towards a Western diet are driving up obesity rates in China, with more than 25 percent of adults now considered overweight or obese, a study warned Tuesday.

Reuters - The same infrared technology that
measures fat content in milk can more accurately predict which
embryos have the best chance of resulting in a pregnancy,
fertility experts said on Tuesday.

Reuters - The addition of the type 2
diabetes drug metformin to a lifestyle modification program may
help female adolescents lose weight loss if they also make
dietary changes, according to a new study.

HealthDay - TUESDAY, July 8 (HealthDay News) — The thicker the skin cancer
tumor, the more likely it will spread or reoccur, according to a newly
published study.

AP - Federal drug safety officials have imposed the government’s most urgent warning on Cipro and similar antibiotics, citing risks that they can cause tendon ruptures, a serious injury that leaves some patients incapacitated.

Reuters - The U.S. Food and Drug
Administration on Tuesday approved Invitrogen Corp’s genetic
test for determining whether patients with breast cancer are
good candidates for treatment with the drug Herceptin.