| Obesity independently impacts prostate cancer screening | | Posted Monday, October 09, 2006 2:58:49 PM by Blog57 Team | | When interpreting prostate cancer screening test results, physicians should consider the impact of a patient's body mass index, regardless of race, according to a new study. Published in the November 15, 2006 issue of CANCER (http://www.interscience.wiley.com/cancer-newsroom), a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the study found that obese African-American and Caucasian men had lower levels of prostate surface antigen (PSA) and free PSA (fPSA) than men with normal body mass index (BMI), suggesting that an obese man with a slightly elevated PSA may be at higher risk for prostate cancer than a man with normal BMI. Screening for prostate cancer by measuring PSA levels is now widely available. While credited for detecting small, localized malignancies, an extremely high number of false positive interpretations result in ultimately unnecessary, risky, invasive investigations.... | |
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| | | Dengue deaths this year outpacing those in 2005 | | Posted Monday, August 28, 2006 11:05:55 PM by Blog57 Team | | Santo Domingo.- So far this year, the Public Health Ministry has registered 2,265 cases of dengue in different communities around the country, and for that reason it has established a status of "security," according to the authorities. According to an Epidemiology Directorate's executive summary, 24 people have passed away in 2006 from the disease, which is 6 more than in 2005 when 18 died. Public Health minister Bautista Rojas provide the figures after meeting in his offices with several mayor of the National District and Santo Domingo province, and agreed to conduct joint operations to control the dengue mosquito's propagation. The official detailed that 2,265 cases have occurred, of which 2,167 are classic and 98 hemorrhagic. He said that those figures represent 600 cases less than last year, despite that the number of deaths is higher than in 2005, according to the summary.... | |
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| | | Today's humans aging easier | | Posted Sunday, July 30, 2006 2:57:05 PM by Blog57 Team | | Valentin Keller enlisted in an all-German unit of the Union Army in Hamilton, Ohio, in 1862. He was 26, a small, slender man, 5 feet 4 inches tall, who had just become a naturalized citizen. He listed his occupation as tailor. A year later, Keller was honorably discharged, sick and broken. He had a lung ailment and was so crippled from arthritis in his hips that he could barely walk. He died at age 41 of "dropsy," which probably meant that he had congestive heart failure. His 39-year-old wife, Otilia, died a month before him of what her death certificate said was "exhaustion." People of Valentin Keller's era, like those before and after them, expected to develop chronic diseases by their 40s or 50s. Keller's descendants had lung problems, they had heart problems, they had liver problems.... | |
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