Prostate Cancer: Prostate, Prostate specific antigen, Prostate cancer staging, Benign prostatic hyperplasia, Prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia, Metastasis, Cystoscopy, Prostate biopsy
MND/BlogWonks: Your Alternate Daily (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Health Report: Genistein (Soy Isoflavone) & Prostate Cancer “A critical weekly review of important new research findings for health-conscious readers…” By, Robert A. Wascher, MD, FACS Updated: 11/22/2009 The information in this column is intended for informational purposes only, and does not constitute medical advice or recommendations by the author. Please consult with your...
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...
Adrants (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
These are the most idiotic ads we've seen in a while.
I Luv SA (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
About time we broached a subject to encourage some stern debate. Actually a coincidence though, because I was thinking about how to create awareness of the issue of male oppression. It is very real, and very relevant to the demise of the western world. Feminists, like liberals, tend to view the issue through one lens; namely that men that seek to defend their rights, are somehow wanting to entrench...
Charlotte Observer: Viewpoint (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
(By Gail Collins, National Columnist) 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...
Medical Futility (Free subscription) | yesterday
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...
Pharm Aid (Free subscription) | yesterday
Dendreon received confirmation from the FDA that it’s (re)-submission for prostate cancer vaccine Provenge is complete. The FDA has also given Dendreon a PDUFA action date of May 1, 2010. This is good news for Dendreon because it means the FDA has finally put Provenge on equal footing compared to other drugs and Dendreon/Provenge is no longer being punished for the FDA’s bad publicity....
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Alex Constantine's Blacklist (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Lockerbie row reignited as Megrahi exceeds life expectancy when released Three months after the release of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, American families of victims question medical advice Ewen MacAskill in Washington, Severin Carrell, Scotland correspondent, Ian Black, Middle East editor guardian.co.uk | 20 November 2009 Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi is taken from Greenock prison to Glasgow...
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...
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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