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Stanford researchers have isolated powerful stem cells from human testes and say the cells could ultimately yield a wide variety of human tissues including cells of the nervous system, the liver, heart, skin and blood vessels.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A drug used to treat people infected with the AIDS virus has shown promise as a possible future weapon against cancer, U.S. researchers said on Friday.
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Three weeks of radiation treatment work just as well as the usual course of five weeks or more for women with early-stage breast cancers, Canadian researchers have reported, after monitoring a large group of patients for 12 years.
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When Ruth Burns had surgery to relieve a pinched nerve in her back, the operation was supposed to be an "in-and-out thing," recalled her daughter, Kacia Warren.
But Burns developed pneumonia and was put on a ventilator. Five days later, she was discharged -- only to be...(more)
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Alex Koehne had a love for life, and always wanted to help people. So when his parents were told that their 15-year-old son was dying of bacterial meningitis, the couple didn't hesitate in donating his organs to desperately ill transplant recipients.
"I immediately said, `Let's do it',"...(more)
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For decades, alcohol has been the preventive drug of choice for many people, for better or for worse - after all, it offers some protection from heart attacks and may keep strokes, dementia and diabetes at bay.
And if alcohol happens to be a lot of fun,...(more)
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Reducing levels of a protein in the brain can prevent in mice some of the most common symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, including memory loss, researchers at the Gladstone Institute in San Francisco reported Thursday in the journal Science.
The findings offer a new clue to Alzheimer's --...(more)
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When it comes to medical fees, $12 may not seem much, but it is enough to deter many women from getting a mammogram, a new study finds.
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An experimental test that snags lung cancer cells from a blood sample could give doctors real-time feedback on the most effective therapy, researchers reported Wednesday.
Changes in the number of circulating cancer cells correlated with the effectiveness of a patient's treatment, according to the report in the...(more)
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For the first time, a novel treatment that trains the immune system to fight cancer has shown modest benefit in late-stage testing against the deadly skin cancer melanoma.
The approach is called a cancer vaccine, even though it treats disease rather than prevents it. In a study...(more)
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President Bush and Congress have spent much of autumn locked in a bitter fight over expanding a popular children's health insurance program, and neither side has been willing to blink.
But for states such as California, the effects of the stalemate are hitting home.
Unless there's an infusion...(more)
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submitted by M Walker for team Breast cancer info 260 weeks 3 days 6 minutes ago
Reuters - A genetic mutation that raises the risk of breast cancer is found in up to 60 percent of U.S. women, making it the first truly common breast cancer susceptibility gene, researchers reported on Sunday.
