Health care summit focuses on the needs of seniors
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- Written by John Grimaldi
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Washington, DC - Congressman David McKinley of West Virginia is keeping the focus on health care and the challenges faced by the nation's seniors. He sponsored a summit at Fairmont State University last week that attracted a wide variety of experts, featured a 14-member panel consisting of politicians, doctors and other health care providers.
California Improves in AIDS, Cancer, Infant Mortality and Other National Health Goals
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Sacramento, California - California has shown improvement in reducing infant mortality, AIDS, cancers and coronary heart disease, according to a new report on public health indicators released today by the California Department of Public Health (CDPH).
Has the pendulum swung too far in favour of patient autonomy?
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- Written by University of Cambridge
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Cambridge, England - New study questions whether doctors are not giving enough guidance to patients about end of life decisions.
New Incisionless Surgery to Treat Enlarged Prostate
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- Written by Jackie Carr
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San Diego, California - By age 60, more than 50 percent of men in the United States suffer from benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), a condition that leads to annoying changes in urinary flow. While medical therapy is usually the first line of treatment, a new minimally invasive implant can dramatically reduce symptoms for men.
“Open” Stem Cell Chromosomes Reveal New Possibilities for Diabetes
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- Written by Heather Buschman, PhD
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San Diego, California - Stem cells hold great promise for treating a number of diseases, in part because they have the unique ability to differentiate, specializing into any one of the hundreds of cell types that comprise the human body.
Fasting and Less-Toxic Cancer Drug May Work as Well as Chemotherapy
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- Written by Robert Perkins
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Los Angeles, California - Fasting in combination with chemotherapy has already been shown to kill cancer cells, but a pair of new studies in mice suggests that a less-toxic class of drugs combined with fasting may kill breast, colorectal and lung cancer cells equally well.
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