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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.

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.

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