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Washington (OTL) - A new study has found that the best way to treat prostate cancer and prevent deaths from the disease is with a combined therapy.
The therapy would be a combination of hormone treatment as well as radiotherapy.
What researchers have found is that this combination treatment can actually cut the death rate in half […]

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Washington (OTL) - Hormone therapy has been found to have a negative impact on the risk of developing breast cancer.
The study was carried out until 2002 and was headed up by Rowan Chlebowski of Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles.
The study found a direct link between hormone therapy and an increased risk of breast cancer, […]

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New York -In the united states colorectal cancer is ranked third among all cancer types.
Although colorectal cancer diagnoses has fallen in the United States the gap is widening between white Americans and blacks. Blacks have a significantly higher mortality rate than whites as it relates to colon cancer.
Blacks are also being diagnosed at a higher […]

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Washington (OTL) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is changing their stance as they now believe eating fish may be good for both pregnant women and children.
For a long time now the FDA has had the stance that eating fish is not good for pregnant women and young kids.
The reason behind this was […]

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Washington (OTL) - According to U.S. Senator Charles Grassley, drug maker Wyeth put out some big money to have positive articles published in journals on their drugs.
Sen. Grassley is a Republican from Iowa and has been working on the case for quite some time.  He has discovered that Wyeth used a medical writing company DesignWrite.
They […]

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According to an Intel Corp. survey done in November, out of 2,119 adults 46 percent of women and 30 percent of men would rather give up sex than go without the Internet for two weeks.
New York - When it comes to the Internet, more women would rather hug their computer than spend a little “quality […]

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New studies are finding that there may be ways to detect and possibly prevent relapse in breast cancer cases, scientists reported, as part of a presentation via teleconference on Friday. Scientists and researchers seemed very hopeful that some new revelations brought about by their research would aid in not only the treatment of certain breast […]

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New York - Research continues to test run the many breakthrough breast cancer drugs after the success experienced with tamoxifen. Tamoxifen was found to reduce the risk of recurrent breast cancer in cases where women had receptor positive tumors.
Several encouraging findings were announced and introduced this Thursday at a San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium. The […]

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Seattle - The experimental drug Qnexa, although in its first developmental stages, has shown that when given the highest dose of the drug obese patients were able to lose, on average, about 9% of their total weight in half the time and without the side effects of other drugs on the market.
This study lasted 28 […]

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Washington (OTL) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is likely to pull two popular asthma drugs after they have been linked to an increased risk of death and other side effects.
The two drugs in question here include Serevent and Foradil.
FDA advisers have recommended that they are no longer used to treat asthma.
They stated […]

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