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PLoS ONE (Free subscription) | yesterday
Cystatin C is believed to prevent tumor progression by inhibiting the activities of a family of lysosomal cysteine proteases. However, little is known about the precise mechanism of cystatin C function in prostate cancer. In the present study, we examined the expression of cystatin C and its association with matrix metalloproteinases 2 (MMP2) and androgen receptor (AR) in a tissue microarray comparing...
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Adrants (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
These are the most idiotic ads we've seen in a while.
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Jailhouselawyer's Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
US senator calls for return of Lockerbie bomber to jail A US senator has written to Gordon Brown, demanding the immediate return of the Lockerbie bomber to prison. Charles Schumer, a New York Democrat, said Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi's early release from Greenock jail in Scotland on compassionate grounds was granted on the assumption that he had only three months to live because he was suffering from...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
Berlin - The co-leader of Germany's Left Party, Oskar Lafontaine, was doing well Saturday following an operation for prostate cancer, a party spokesman said. The procedure went successfully. In the circumstances, he's doing well, spokesman Hendrik ...
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Medical Futility (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
From a Friday news conference with Republican Senators: CORNYN : In addition to everything that Senator Kyl and Senator Murkowski have said, I think we all recognize that most of the costs in our health care system are in the end-of-life, with chronic diseases. And to me, the disturbing thing about what we're seeing with regard to mammograms and the possibility that -- is it Medicare will not pay for...
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Getting Better (Free subscription) | yesterday
In yet another article addressing the war on cancer, The New York Times today tackles cancer prevention, focusing on alternative and mainstream Pharma products marketed to reduce the risk for cancer. While author Gina Kolata seems to have done her homework when it comes to the failure of alternative medicine to prevent cancer, she has missed the story completely when it comes to telling why the medical...
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John's World (Free subscription) | yesterday
No reality here... The uproar over mammogram guidelines is discouraging for anyone who thinks the cost over over-medicating and defensive medicine cannot continue. In the midst of the debate over health care reform , we have been handed the perfect example of why America will never get health care costs under control: The furious reaction to new guidelines that recommend most women should get mammograms...
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PharmaGossip (Free subscription) | yesterday
Companies: Astrazeneca Plc BOSTON, Nov. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- The United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit upheld an earlier District Court ruling yesterday, approving a settlement in the long-running Average Wholesale Price (AWP) pharmaceutical litigation against AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals (NYSE: AZN - News ). (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080317/AQM144LOGO ) The ruling affirms...
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Pocket-lint (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
"You'll see Obama with a mo. You'll see it. It's going to happen." Back in the southern-hemisphere summer of 2003, a gang of Antipodean gents came up with the idea of growing a moustache for a month. Six years on and nearly a quarter of a million men around the globe are cultivating face fur on their upper lips all in the name of charity - well, and because it's kind of fun too. To tell...
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THE TENSION (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
N ews in Balance: WASHINGTON, Nov. 20, 2009 -- An independent study by the Institute of Medicine last month resulted in broadened health coverage by the Veterans Affairs Department for Vietnam War veterans who were exposed to Agent Orange. Research found that three illnesses – B cell leukemias, Parkinson’s disease and ischemic heart disease -- possibly are associated with Agent Orange exposure....
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jillysheep (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
This seems to be a common complaint of the education system these days. Apparently boys are being held back so that girls look better - not sure I believe that. People seem to be worried about most primary school teachers being women. I was at primary school in the 1950s/1960s and all my teachers - with one exception - were female. So how have things changed? The other complaint is course work favours...
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Freddie P (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
I went for a physical a few weeks ago and was given a PSA test. Today I received a $30.00 bill for for it. Thirty dollars is no big deal, but in his 2007 election campaign Dalton McGuinty promised to cover the cost of Prostate Specific Antigen tests for men 50 years of age and older in the interest of early detection. However, in December 2008, the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care announced in...
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The Human Future (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
My colleague who runs the LupronVictimsHub site alerted me to this online petition which people can sign. Over 1000 emails and letters have already been sent to Congress for this purpose: The purpose of this petition is to warn others regarding the drug Lupron (Leupolide Acetate) mfg. by Takeda/Abbott Pharmaceuticals in the hope that further long-term safety studies are done before it disables or kills...
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Outside the Beltway (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Gail Collins proclaims the first ten years of the new millennium “the Decade of Medical Backtracking.” Somewhere between the reports that Pap smears and tests for prostate cancer aren’t all they were cracked up to be and the news that a high fiber diet doesn’t do anything to prevent cancer, the health establishment began looking decidedly [...]
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Vox Verax (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
By GAIL COLLINS NYT Everyone has been trying to come up with a good nickname for the 10 years we’re concluding next month. Terror Era really sounds like too much of a downer. How about the Decade of Medical Backtracking? Somewhere between the reports that Pap smears and tests for prostate cancer aren’t all they were cracked up to be and the news that a high fiber diet doesn’t do anything...
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