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POPSSeriously irritating health reporting by one of my favorite health reporters I hate media reporting about health and medicine Why on earth was this article written without distinguishing between breast and prostate cancer screening at all? There is a difference between the "exaggeration" of risk and benefit claims regarding an effective, proven, life-saving screening test (mammography) and the "exaggeration" of claims regarding an as yet unproven, probably pointless screening test with serious side effects (prostate cancer screening). Sure, both don't work as well as most public health messages claim. But one actually works! ARGH!
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POPSU.S. Cancer Care Is Number One Early Diagnosis. It is often claimed that people have better access to preventive screenings in universal health care systems. But despite the large number of uninsured, cancer patients in the United States are most likely to be screened regularly, and once diagnosed, have the fastest access to treatment. For example, a Commonwealth Fund report showed that women in the United States were more likely to get a PAP test for cervical cancer every two years than women in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Great Britain, where health insurance is guaranteed by the government. In the United States, 85 percent of women aged 25 to 64 years have regular PAP smears, compared with 58 percent in Great Britain. The same is true for mammograms; in the United States, 84 percent of women aged 50 to 64 years get them regularly " a higher percentage than in Australia, Canada or New Zealand, and far higher than the 63 percent of British women.
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POPSResearchers Discover Common Antibiotic Can Cure Genetic Diseases
reading the RNA, resulting in an incomplete and non-functional protein being created Since releasing the news of the new compound, called NB54, based on the common antibiotic gentamicin, Baasov has been flooded with queries from investigators all over the globe excited to test it, he tells ISRAEL21c. The findings were published online in March in the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry Gentamicin is from a group of antibiotics known as aminoglycosides, which are used to treat a wide range of bacterial infections. It is commonly used to treat enlarged prostate glands, chest infections, urinary tract infections and infected wounds or burns. Previous studies find gentamicin can work to counteract genetic diseases when mutations cause disruptions of the development processes of proteins Compound working in cystic fibrosis The drug enables ribosomes, which carry out protein synthesis, to ignore these genetic disruptions and generate healthy, full-length functional proteins in
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POPSUK .prostate cancer Please sign if you can, I don't like putting petitions on here but I think this one should be a must for every man, it could save a life. Thanks Val.
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POPSPROSTATE CANCER DETECTION AND TREATMENT Unfortunately prostate cancer symptoms are not seen in the early stages when it can be curable. Decrease in food intake, lack of hunger, weight loss, softening of bone are the symptoms seen in advanced stages.
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POPSNew breakthrough in cancer diagnosis For the study, Dr Tewari and colleagues tested blood from mice and humans with advanced prostate cancers, as well as that from healthy controls, and could distinguish which individuals had cancer based on blood microRNA measurement.
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POPSGene Combo May Hike Prostate cancer risk The research may lead to a blood test that can identify high risk individuals A statement struck me as bizarre - Looking at gene combos being a relatively new approach. They are about to release products of many strands of genetic research to the general public, and it has only just occurred to them that many diseases and conditions are a result of a gene 'combo'? I would have thought that had already been established. But the truth seems to be that while we can fathom some of the actions of single genes, the way they act in combination is a complete mystery. Evidence they Do Not Have Enough Information or understanding, to allow products of genetic research to enter the public domain. But that won't stop them.
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POPSFDA: No evidence lycopene thwarts cancer In his editorial, Giovannucci points out that today many prostate cancers are identified very early with the PSA test. Studies that supported a preventive effect of lycopene or tomatoes were largely done before the PSA era, or in countries where the PSA test isn't widely used, meaning the cancers involved were more advanced, he explains.
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POPSUnfermented soy harmful to health Zinc and magnesium are vital for your wellbeing. Soy has also other negative effects. It inhibits protein digestion and may cause thyroid dysfunction. The Japanese knew this since centuries and did not eat plain soy. They traditionally used fermented forms: TOFU which has less of the substances that are harmful and MISO which is best, as it is so well fermented that it is essentially free from the harmful side effects of soy.
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POPSWhy PSA is not good PCa biomarker? 7. Potter SR, Partin AW: Prostate cancer: detection, staging and treatment of localized disease. Semin. Roentgenol.34, 269–283 (1999). Why PSA is not a good biomarker for Cancer. Check REFS#7-12 PMID: 16555974
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POPSNotice Your Nuts Possibly "Not Safe For Work" but I don't believe it warrants the "M" flag. Please let me know if you feel differently.
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