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Reuters - Blacks with a history of the chronic
breathing disorder COPD have a far greater risk of developing
lung cancer than whites who have the lung disease, U.S.
researchers said on Thursday.

AP - Scientists have mapped the cascade of genetic changes that turn normal cells in the brain and pancreas into two of the most lethal cancers. The result points to a new approach for fighting tumors and maybe even catching them sooner. Genes blamed for one person’s brain tumor were different from the culprits for […]

Reuters - Tobacco use caused 2.4 million cases
of cancer in the United States from 1999 to 2004, the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Thursday.

Reuters - Most parents find it acceptable
to be told about their child’s weight status, and the feedback
has “minimal” adverse effects for most families, researchers
from the UK report.

Reuters - For people with asthma, those
who are obese are nearly five times more likely than their
non-obese peers to be hospitalized for asthma, new research
indicates.

Reuters - Cancer experts who probed every gene
in tumors from two of the hardest-to-treat cancers found that
cancer is much more complicated than anyone thought — and say
they found why a cure is so unlikely after a tumor has spread.

Reuters - U.S. health regulators ordered
stronger warnings for prescription drugs to treat rheumatoid
arthritis, Crohn’s disease and other conditions on Thursday
after dozens of patients contracted severe fungal infections
and died.

HealthDay - THURSDAY, Sept. 4 (HealthDay News) — Vaccine safety experts say
that almost all kids who are allergic to vaccines can receive vaccinations
with close monitoring and a set of standard precautions.

Reuters - Women who have advanced breast
cancer treated in a local community hospital appear to have a
lower long-term survival rate than their counterparts treated
at academic medical centers, a new study indicates.

Reuters - Counseling on smoking cessation
and other health issues during pregnancy may have lasting
benefits for low-income African-American women, a study
suggests.

HealthDay - (HealthDay News) — Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy
of CenterWatch:

AP - The Food and Drug Administration is ordering stronger warnings on four medications used to treat rheumatoid arthritis.

HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Sept. 3 (HealthDay News) — While tremendous progress
in screening and treatment for breast cancer has been made in recent
years, some 184,000 new cases of breast cancer will be diagnosed in the
United States in 2008, and about 41,000 women will die of the disease.

This story is very interesting, and hopefully a sign of things to come in the medical world, where they are coming up with better, faster ways for people to heal from surgeries and skin burns and other contusions thanks to things like genetic and stem cell research (that’s my plug for stem cell research freedom, […]

(NaturalNews) Documents on the FDA Web site reveal that pharmaceutical companies Merck and Schering-Plough conducted numerous safety studies on the popular cholesterol drug Zetia but did not publish the results, which suggested that the drug may cause liver damage when mixed with statins.
Zetia is a trade name for the drug ezetimibe, also marketed under the […]