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Blood Test Detects Early Stage Liver Cancer

Thursday, August 16th, 2007

Liver cancer is the fifth most common cancer in the world.

Liver cancer is often fatal, killing many patients within a year of being diagnosed.

Abdominal pain is the most common symptom of this aggressive disease. Unfortunately, this symptom doesn’t usually occur until tumors have grown to an advanced stage.

Liver cancer rates in the U.S. are much lower than in Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. But there are still … Read More

Questions of Safety for Testosterone Pills

Thursday, August 16th, 2007

Andropause is to men what menopause is to women. As males age, their testosterone levels naturally and gradually decrease. It’s not an indication that they have any sort of ailment; it happens in healthy men.

For this problem, doctors can prescribe testosterone supplements. These will raise (obviously) levels of the hormone in the body. Doing so often results in older men feeling better and looking healthier. Many people are … Read More

Study Says a ‘Fat Tax’ Could Save Lives

Wednesday, August 15th, 2007

Over in the U.K., a group of researchers have suggested a radical economic technique for fighting the obesity epidemic. Whether it will ever see the light of day is another thing, but it’s certainly interesting. The technique is this: Put a tax on all unhealthy foods in the supermarket. That way, people would have to pay more for foods that are not good for their heart, blood sugar, and … Read More

Mosquito-Borne West Nile Virus Infecting More People

Wednesday, August 15th, 2007

Make sure you wear long pants and shirts when outside between sunset and sunrise. At least that’s the recommendation of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP).

It seems that the number of West Nile cases is on the rise. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that last year by this time, 15 cases of human West Nile Virus had been reported. This year, there are already 185 … Read More

Male Protein Could Be the Key to Female Cancer

Wednesday, August 15th, 2007

Scientists have discovered that a protein in the male testes could actually help prevent the relapse of a cancer specific to women. We’re talking ovarian cancer. They’ve even recently tested this protein as a vaccine. The results were pretty promising. Before we get to that, let’s review ovarian cancer.

This type of cancer starts with abnormal cells in or on the ovaries. These are the egg-producing organs in a woman’s … Read More