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This Is How Much Exercise You Get at a Trade Show Being a gadget writer at CES may seem like a glamorous gig. Yes, we get to play with a lot of new toys, and yes, that is often a lot of fun. But canvassing the show floor and running to press …
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LAS VEGAS — No matter what you think, video gaming is not exercise. It's sitting on your butt, twitching your fingers over a dozen multi-colored buttons. You rarely break a sweat. I can tell you though, from personal experience, that if you ever get …
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Doctors relying on studies published in top journals for guidance about how to treat women with breast cancer may not be getting the most accurate information, according to a new analysis. “Investigators want to go overboard to make their studies look positive,” said Dr. Ian Tannock, the senior author of the new study in the Annals of Oncology. In two-thirds of the 164 studies Tannock and his colleagues scrutinized, that meant not listing toxicities – in other words, serious side effects, whether of chemotherapy, radiation or surgery – in the paper’s abstract. …
BOSTON (AP) — Four sisters who claimed their breast cancer was caused by a drug their mother took during pregnancy in the 1950s reached a settlement Wednesday with Eli Lilly and Co. in the first of scores of similar claims around the country to go to trial.
A study requested by the U.S. government, jointly conducted by the National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine , resulted in a report that reveals the state of health and lifespan in the nation continues to fall behind other industrialized nations. The trend is not a new one; it has been ongoing since the 1980s, but at that time the studies concentrated on the latter years of life in America.
A new study published in the Jan. 9 issue of the journal Science Translational Medicine has found that a woman’s routine Pap smear may soon be able to screen for uterine and ovarian cancers as well. Doctors working at Johns Hopkins found that if the samples collected from a small group of women during their routine Pap smears was put through a genome sequencing process called PapGene that almost all uterine cancers and a significant percentage of ovarian cancers that were present were reliably detected.
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela's top court endorsed the postponement of Hugo Chavez's inauguration this week and ruled on Wednesday that the cancer-stricken president and his deputy would continue in their roles, despite a cacophony of opposition complaints. Critics had argued the 58-year-old's absence from his own swearing-in ceremony on January 10 meant a caretaker president must be appointed. Chavez has not been seen in public nor heard from in almost a month following surgery in Cuba. …
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States said on Wednesday it would like to improve relations with Venezuela, gripped by political uncertainty following socialist President Hugo Chavez’s fourth cancer operation, but it will “take two to tango.” Venezuela has said it would postpone Thursday’s scheduled inauguration for Chavez, 58, who has not been seen or heard from since surgery in Cuba on December 11. He was diagnosed with an undisclosed type of cancer in his pelvis in June 2011. The unprecedented silence by the president, a fierce U.S. …
CHICAGO (Reuters) – Using cervical fluid collected from routine Pap smears, U.S. researchers were able to spot genetic changes caused by both ovarian and endometrial cancers, offering promise for a new kind of screening test for these deadly cancers. Experts say that although the test has tremendous potential, it is still years from widespread use. But if proven effective with more testing, it would fill a significant void. Currently, there are no tests that can reliably detect either ovarian or endometrial cancer, which affects the uterine lining. …
WASHINGTON (AP) — For years, doctors have lamented that there's no Pap test for deadly ovarian cancer. Wednesday, scientists reported encouraging signs that one day, there might be.
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Americans made fewer trips to their doctors’ offices during the Great Recession than they did earlier in the decade, according to new research. “These are not dramatic drops, but in our healthcare system we’re used to our numbers going up… So just seeing a reverse in the trend is interesting,” said Karoline Mortensen, the study’s lead author from the University of Maryland in College Park. …
