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Exercise is the key to a health body and a healthy mind. It is believed that one hour of daily vigorous exercise or two hours of less strenuous activity is now linked to a lower risk of colon cancer, according to the results of a recent study. Cycling, Jogging, running, pumping iron, swimming, and even [...]
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Angelina Jolie is making even more headlines than usual as she speaks openly about falling in love with Brad Pitt. She also confirmed that her mother is battling ovarian cancer. Jolie says in an interview with CNN host Larry King that her 56-year-old mom, Marcheline Bertrand, is doing good and she expects her to win [...]
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Emmy award-winning actor and curmudgeonly patriarch of Everybody Loves Raymond Peter Boyle, who recovered from a stroke almost two decades ago, passed away last night after a battle with multiple myeloma, a cancer of the bone marrow. On Everybody Loves Raymond, Boyle played the inflexible, narrow-minded, and often abrasive yet somehow lovable Frank Barone, whose [...]
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Touch imprint cytology (TIC) lymph node assessment during breast cancer surgery could prove to have advantages over the current standard lymph node assessment. TIC can be important to the breast cancer patient because usually the results from the lymph node dissection can take up to a week. It causes a lot of anxiety and stress [...]
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Conotoxin is toxin made by cone snails, which are fish eating snails that inhabit tropical coral reefs. Each of the 500 species of cone snail produces roughly 50 to 100 distinct conotoxins which they use to immobilize prey. Researchers believe that this sea snail venom could be used to create a pain medication to replace [...]
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The drug sildenafil, better known as Viagra has been shown in mice to support the immune system’s response to cancer cells. Mice with colon and breast tumors showed that the tumor size decreased two and threefold when treated with sildenafil compared with the mice that did not receive the drug. The researchers also believe that [...]
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For the fourth straight year, Minnesota tops the state health rankings, according to the annual United Health Foundation report, which also shows Americans are 0.3 percent healthier in 2006 than they were in 2005. The United Health Foundation survey has been around for 17 years and for 11 of these years, Minnesota has been at [...]
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In a recent study at Denmark, it was found that cell phones don’t cause cancer. This major study tracked 420,000 Danish cell phone users, many of them users for more than 10 years and some for more than 20 years. In the largest ever study to yield good news about the safety of cell phones, [...]
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Germany’s biggest Drug makers Bayer Pharmaceuticals Corp. and US Partners Onyx Pharmaceuticals Inc. said that Phase III skin cancer tests of their Nexavar (sorafenib) tablets failed to meet their primary endpoint of improving progression-free survival (PFS). The addition of the drug Nexavar to chemotherapy failed to improve the survival of skin cancer patients. “We are [...]
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British scientists have made a significant breakthrough in the treatment of ovarian cancer by discovering a way to reverse the resistance to drugs that denies thousands of women patients each year a chance of survival. Ovarian Cancer is a common disease and one of the hardest to treat. Around 70 per cent of patients cannot [...]
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Common cancer drugs may be more harmful to the brain than the tumor cells they are meant to destroy. Cancer chemotherapy can damage the brain, killing crucial brain cells and causing key parts of the brain to shrink, according to the study conducted by researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center and published in [...]
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I guess getting skin cancer from prolonged sun exposure or from the harmful ultraviolet rays was not enough, now we have the tanning salons added in the list too. The International Agency for Research on Cancer said that Tanning beds have dramatically increased the risk of skin cancer in young users in their teens and [...]
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