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Bike Seats And Sexual Performance

Posted: September 7th, 2008, 3:18am EDT

Bike Seats And Sexual Performance
Robert Novak column describes brain cancer treatment

Posted: September 6th, 2008, 10:50pm EDT

Conservative political commentator Robert Novak says he's lost partial vision and undergone a lengthy surgery to remove a tumor since being diagnosed with brain cancer.
Obama hits McCain on Social Security

Posted: September 6th, 2008, 6:10pm EDT

Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama criticized Republican John McCain's approach to Social Security on Saturday, saying it would undermine the government program aimed mainly at retirees. McCain said he would preserve Social Security.
Both candidates spoke via satellite to a gathering of the AARP, the nation's largest group of older Americans.
Obama said McCain's campaign has suggested trimming Social Security benefits, raising the eligibility age and privatizing a portion of the program.
With an impressive roster of stars, Stand Up to Cancer telethon takes over network TV

Posted: September 6th, 2008, 1:45pm EDT

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C.Skateboarder Tony Hawk, actor Shemar Moore and other celebrities said they joined in a three-network cancer telethon on Friday because the disease had touched or taken the lives of loved ones.
Consumers in a Quandary as Experts Debate BPA Safety

Posted: September 5th, 2008, 9:09am EDT

Toxicologists say bisphenol A may cause risks for infants and children, just weeks after the FDA called the chemical safe.
Don't let them eat cake, Saudi cleric says

Posted: September 5th, 2008, 6:40am EDT

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - When Hala al-Masaad invited her girlfriends over to celebrate her 18th birthday with cake and juice, the high school student was stepping into an unusual public debate.
Nevada family might lose the only state-funded program to help autistic child

Posted: September 5th, 2008, 2:26am EDT

A local family is struggling to support their disabled child when the only aid received is a $1,000 a month that may not last and the only bread-winner will soon be on unemployment.
Gene trawl shows curing cancer harder than thought

Posted: September 4th, 2008, 10:18pm EDT

By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Cancer experts who probed every gene in tumors from two of the hardest-to-treat cancers found that cancer is much more complicated than anyone thought -- and say they found why a cure is so unlikely after a tumor has spread.
But they also discovered a potential new way to treat a common and fatal form of brain cancer, and opened the door to finding cancer before it has spread, when it can still be cured surgically, they reported on Thursday in the journal Science.
Four arthritis drugs get stronger FDA warning

Posted: September 4th, 2008, 5:54pm EDT

The Food and Drug Administration ordered stronger warnings Thursday on four medications widely used to treat rheumatoid arthritis and other serious illnesses, saying they can raise the risk of possibly fatal fungal infections.
Suburban NY county to begin spraying for West Nile

Posted: September 4th, 2008, 1:26pm EDT

Nassau County on Long Island will begin aerial spraying against the West Nile virus for the first time since 1999.
Officials say the spraying will take place across a large section of the county beginning Thursday night.
Three recent deaths on Nassau County may be linked to the West Nile virus, a mosquito-born infection that can cause serious illness or death.
Officials say there have been 10 reported infections in the county this year. There were two reported cases in 2007.
The spraying begins at dusk, when mosquitoes are most active.
Update on Radio Personality Kenn McCloud

Posted: September 4th, 2008, 9:00am EDT

Update on Radio Personality Kenn McCloud
Defra budgets 'not flexible en...

Posted: September 4th, 2008, 4:46am EDT

DEFRA BUDGETS 'NOT FLEXIBLE ENOUGH' Defra failed to make budget flexible enough to deal with unforeseen events, MPs said Environment ministers failed to make their budget flexible enough to deal with last ...
Network TV's anchor trio join the cancer fight

Posted: September 4th, 2008, 12:16am EDT

Katie Couric, Charles Gibson and Brian Williams have something in common besides their jobs: Each has lost loved ones to cancer _ which gives them something in common with nearly everybody.
Study: New way to spot breast cancer shows promise

Posted: September 3rd, 2008, 7:59pm EDT

A radioactive tracer that "lights up" cancer hiding inside dense breasts showed promise in its first big test against mammograms, revealing more tumors and giving fewer false alarms, doctors reported Wednesday.
Children of Older Fathers at Greater Risk for Bipolar Disorder

Posted: September 3rd, 2008, 9:36am EDT

Study linking older fathers to children who develop bipolar disorder is just the latest to illustrate that men also have ticking biological clocks.
Cholesterol Drugs For Kids

Posted: September 3rd, 2008, 8:33am EDT

Cholesterol Drugs For Kids
Study: Teen suicide rate down slightly, still high

Posted: September 3rd, 2008, 4:15am EDT

The number of teen suicides has fallen slightly but the rate remains disturbingly high, researchers said, possibly fueled by drug warnings that have scared many from using antidepressants.
E. coli outbreak in Oklahoma kills one, sickens 200

Posted: September 2nd, 2008, 11:58pm EDT

One person is dead and more than 200 sickened after an E. coli outbreak linked to a restaurant in northeastern Oklahoma, State health officials say the Country Cottage restaurant in Locust Grove has been closed ...
Modest brain test benefit seen with brisk walking

Posted: September 2nd, 2008, 7:25pm EDT

Brisk walking led to slight improvements on mental tests for older people with memory problems in what is billed as the first rigorous test of exercise on the aging brain.
With no clear link between cancer and Vytorin, medics advise to use the drug cautiously.

Posted: September 2nd, 2008, 3:00pm EDT

Results from three studies of the cholesterol-lowering drug Vytorin are not enough to prove or rule out a possible link to a higher risk of cancer, so the drug should be used with great caution until more is ...
For Widely Used Drug, Question of Usefulness Is Still Lingering

Posted: September 2nd, 2008, 10:49am EDT

When the Food and Drug Administration approved a new type of cholesterol-lowering medicine in 2002, it did so on the basis of a handful of clinical trials covering a total of 3,900 patients.
Surviving Cancer

Posted: September 2nd, 2008, 6:19am EDT

The chances of cancer survival improves drastically since the 60's.
Americans adopting HIV-positive kids from Ethiopia

Posted: September 2nd, 2008, 1:55am EDT

Solomon Henderson inherited just three things from his birth parents, who left him at an Ethiopian orphanage when he was 1 year old: a picture of Jesus, a plastic crucifix and HIV.
As one of some 14,000 Ethiopian children born with the virus every year, Solomon's prospects for survival _ much less adoption _ were grim. But Erin Henderson's heart stirred when she saw him, and she decided, on the spot, to adopt him.
'They told me that they weren't sure he would live through the weekend,' Henderson said by e-mail from her home in rural Wyoming, where she lives with her husband and 11 children, two of whom are HIV-positive adoptees from Ethiopia.
HPV Shot = Severe Allergy Reactions?

Posted: September 1st, 2008, 9:29pm EDT

Young women in Australia who got a vaccine to prevent cervical cancer were five to 20 times more likely to have a rare but severe allergic reaction than girls who got other vaccines in comparable school-based ...
Goody has 'life threatening cancer'

Posted: September 1st, 2008, 5:15pm EDT

GOODY HAS 'LIFE THREATENING CANCER' The court heard that Jade Goody has 'advanced cancer' Reality television star Jade Goody is suffering from "advanced and life threatening" cervical cancer, a court heard.
Coffee.

Posted: September 1st, 2008, 1:03pm EDT

A good brew ... women who drink a lot of coffee may have less risk of developing cancer of the uterus.
Schoolgirls get cervical cance...

Posted: September 1st, 2008, 8:34am EDT

A programme to vaccinate schoolgirls against the virus which causes cervical cancer has begun.
Laboring longer is growing trend for Americans

Posted: September 1st, 2008, 4:18am EDT

Americans are changing the game plan for retirement, with millions laboring right past the traditional retirement age and working into their late 60s and beyond.
While the average retirement age remains 63, that standard may soon be going the way of the gold watch _ a trend expected to accelerate as baby boomers close in on retirement without sufficient savings.
For 64-year-old John Lee, 'retirement' bears a strong resemblance to his full-time working career _ full of 40- and 50-hour weeks as an IT technical support specialist. He's not strapped but likes the extra cash and the feeling of being needed.
The catch-all cancer drug to target every type of tumour

Posted: August 31st, 2008, 11:51pm EDT

A breakthrough in cancer research could lead to a 'one-size-fits-all' drug that can tackle all forms of the disease.
Service union vice president steps down amid probe

Posted: August 31st, 2008, 7:37pm EDT

The executive vice president of the Service Employees International Union has stepped aside while under investigation for allegations she paid thousands of dollars in union funds to a former boyfriend, the Los Angeles Times reported Sunday.
Annelle Grajeda is the third major SEIU official to be placed on leave in recent months amid allegations of financial misspending. Grajeda was also president of the SEIU's state council for California and president of the Los Angeles local representing 77,000 county workers.

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