Men have shorter life spans
than women on average, but when it comes to sexual
life expectancy, the guys have the advantage. At age
55, men have an average of 15 years of sexual
activity ahead of them, while women average just 10,
according to a new ...
WebMD -
Daniel J. DeNoon -
March
10, 2010
March 9, 2010 - A virus that
destroys cancer cells but leaves normal cells
unharmed works against prostate cancer, a human
study shows.
BusinessWeek -
Charlotte Porter -
March 10, 2010
March 10 (Bloomberg) -- The 2010 Atlantic hurricane
season will be more active than last year's and
poses an “above- normal” threat to the US Gulf and
East coasts, AccuWeather Inc. forecasters said
today.
Reuters -
Rachelle Younglai, Padraic
Cassidy - March 10,
2010
WASHINGTON, March 10 (Reuters) - A top Republican in
US Senate talks on financial regulation reform said
on Wednesday there are no special exemptions for
particular institutions in a proposed new government
financial watchdog agency.
Gaylord
Herald Times -
March 9, 2010
Dr. Heidi V. Huck, MD,
gastroenterologist at Great Lakes Digestive Health
Associates in Petoskey uses a diagram of the human
intestines to discuss questions about colorectal
cancer.
Reuters -
Anne Harding -
Posted
by SA March 9, 2010
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) -
New research suggests that the type of specialist a
prostate cancer patient sees -- rather than the
patient's own preference -- may determine the
treatment he receives.
MSNBC - March
9, 2010
Analysis: As Congress inches toward a new set of rules
to avert another global financial collapse, the score,
so far, looks like: Bankers 1, Consumers 0.
Full story
The Press Association -
March
9, 2010
Toyota owners in the United States have filed dozens
of group lawsuits claiming that massive safety
recalls have hammered the value of their cars in an
action which could cost the company more than £2
billion. The estimate does not include potential
...
Wall Street Journal -
Kristen McNamara -
March 9, 2010
NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--The number of wealthy US
households rose last year, rebounding from a sharp
decline in 2008; and these investors, concerned
about protecting their money, are taking a more
hands-on and
New York Times - March 9,
2010
WASHINGTON - Seeking to exploit the Internet's
potential for prying open closed societies, the
Obama administration will permit technology
companies to export online services like instant
messaging, chat and photo sharing to Iran, ...
Trading Markets (press release) -
March 8, 2010
Sarah Palin admitted over the weekend that she used
to get her treatment in Canada's single-payer
system, the Huffington Post reported Monday. ...
dBTechno -
March
8, 2010
When it comes to reducing risk
of infection a new study finds that vitamin D is a
must. Vitamin D has many attributes and is a vital
component to a healthy being, and has been proven to
be beneficial for bone strength, and now immunity.
CBS News -
Sharyl Attkisson -
Posted by SA -
March 8,
2010
Health and Human Services
Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, left, speaks with
various state insurance commissioners and insurance
industry executives in the Roosevelt Room of the
White House in Washington, Thursday, March 4, 2010.
Entertainment Weekly -
John Young -
March 8, 2010
Image Credit: Jason Merritt/Getty Images Winning an
Oscar has to be a flabbergasting experience. As the
heavy lights beam down and a worldwide television
audience awaits your every word, it must be near
impossible to succinctly say what ...
New York Times - Posted by
SA - March 8, 2010
The thing I love most about America is that there's
always somebody who doesn't get the word - somebody
who doesn't understand that in a Great Recession
you're supposed to hunker down, downsize and just
hold on for dear life.
Sarasota Herald-Tribune -
March 8, 2010
When Gov. Charlie Crist announced Florida's $1.75
billion plan to save the Everglades by buying out a
major landowner, United States Sugar, he declared
that the deal would be remembered as a public
acquisition “as monumental as the creation of the
...
FOXBusiness - March 8,
2010
WASHINGTON--Congress should allow the Bush
Administration tax cuts to expire because extending
them would not be the “best outcome for the US
economy,” according to a survey of economists by the
National Association ...
The Free
Lance-Star -
March 7,
2010
Other studies suggest benefits
for preventing lung cancer and stomach cancer.
Cabbage eaters had a 50 percent lower risk of colon
cancer in an Indian study.
Christian Science Monitor -
Kristen Chick -
March 7, 2010
Pakistani officials said Saturday that Maulvi Faqir
Mohamed, a top Pakistan Taliban leader, was likely
killed in an airstrike Friday in northwestern
Pakistan along with other Taliban leaders.
Forbes -
Patrick Quinn, Maamoun
Youssef - March
7, 2010
CAIRO -- Al-Qaida's American-born (Adam Pearlman)
spokesman on Sunday called on Muslims serving in the
US armed forces to emulate the Army major charged
with killing 13 people in Fort Hood.
Washington
Post -
March 7, 2010
Remember how Republican Scott
P. Brown's victory in January's Senate race in
Massachusetts was supposed to represent a mortal
blow to health-care reform?
TopNews
United States -
Jason Ramsey
March 6,
2010
Breast cancer can be cured by
"freezing technique", according to a new study. Two
freezing techniques were tested on mice by the
researchers.
Los Angeles Times -
Ken Bensinger, Ralph
Vartabedian - 03-06-10
Some of the more than 60 drivers reporting incidents
say sudden unintended acceleration has happened to
them more than once since having modifications done
at dealers.
BusinessWeek - March 6,
2010
March 6 (Bloomberg) -- General Motors Co. plans to
reinstate 661 dealers and may enter arbitration with
as many as 400 outlets as the biggest US automaker
attempts to stem declines in domestic market share.
CBS News -
Brian Montopoli -
March 6, 2010
Liz Cheney, daughter of former Vice President Dick
Cheney and co-founder of the advocacy group Keep
America Safe, is being criticized on the right for
going too far in an ad deeming Justice Department
lawyers who represented Guantanamo Bay detainees
...
DrugWatch.com -
March
5, 2010
Results from a recent study
revealed that an experimental drug may increase the
life expectancy of certain patients with prostate
cancer by 30 percent. The study, led by Dr. Oliver
Sartor of the Tulane Cancer Center in New Orleans,
examined the ...
The Daily Voice -
March
5, 2010
Like we didn't know it all along. Seems the folks
over at the RNC have been organizing a fear campaign
to paint his O ness as a Socialist.
Washington Post -
Neil Irwin -
March
5, 2010
Job losses were mild in February despite extreme
snowstorms in much of the country, according to a
government report released Friday, suggesting that
while the labor market remains weak it is no longer
getting worse
TG Daily -
Emma Woollacott -
March 5, 2010
Vast amounts of methane are bubbling up from the
East Siberian sea, raising fears of a massive hike
in global warming. Permafrost in the seabed has been
previously assumed to act as an effective cap for
the enormous amount of methane in the area. ...
Wall
Street Journal - March 5,
2010
WASHINGTON—The government's top health official
summoned health-insurance chief executives to the
White House Thursday and told them they need to
disclose more data justifying sharp premium
increases.
CNBC - Tom Brokaw - March 4, 2010
Declining finances, rising health care costs threaten a
generation.
“I have applied for jobs that are one-fourth, one-third
of my previous income level,” he said. “And I would have
been thrilled to get it. There are just too many of me
and everyone else out there. I just wish there was a
place for us, to kind of land.”
Avvo -
March
4, 2010
In a lawsuit filed in a San
Francisco court on Tuesday, an environmental group
alleged that 10 types of fish oil and shark oil
supplements contain a toxic substance that may cause
cancer.
HemOncToday -
March 4, 2010
The PCA3 urine test accurately
predicted whether a prostate biopsy would detect
cancer in a prospective subanalysis of patients in
the Reduction by Dutasteride of Prostate Cancer
Events — or REDUCE — trial. Jack Groskopf, PhD,
director of research and ...
Earlier Health Articles with Lead
WebMD -
Charlene Laino -
March
4, 2010
March 3, 2010 -- A new
drug shows promise for extending the lives of
men with advanced prostate cancer who have run
out of treatment options.
WebMD -
Kathleen Doheny -
March 3, 2010
March 2, 2010 -- People with
disturbances in their heart rhythms are often
advised to avoid caffeinated coffee, but a new study
shows that moderate coffee drinking actually reduces
the risk of being hospitalized for heart rhythm
...
Wall Street
Journal -
Laura Landro -
March
2, 2010
For millions of patients, a CT
scan can mean the difference between life and death,
detecting a brain tumor, blood clot or burst
appendix in seconds.
EurekAlert
Posted by SA
February 28, 2010
The researchers have begun a
pilot study of 50 patients at Johns Hopkins to help
determine how specific and sensitive the device is
in evaluating melanomas ...
New York
Times -
M.D. Anderson -
Posted
by SA February 28, 2010
That leads to the rapid cell
growth that characterizes cancer. The drug PLX4032
binds to the defective protein, deactivating it.
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