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Good dogs: The list
They're more than man's best friends: They're friends with benefits. Here are a few ways dogs are helping to make our lives healthier, safer and longer.
Search and rescue: When disaster strikes, search-and-rescue dogs are never far behind. After the...Tags: Japan Earthquake and Tsunami (2011), Natural Disasters, Skin Cancer, Research, Medical Research
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Cellphones, kids and cancer: Don't worry, be happy?
The first-ever study comparing brain cancer incidence in kids who use cellphones with those who do not has found no difference, suggesting that children's long-feared vulnerability to brain cancer with early cellphone use does not exist.
In a four-...Tags: Science and Technology, Medical Research, Cancer, Human Body, Brain
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Baruj Benacerraf dies at 90; Nobelist made key discoveries about immune system
Dr. Baruj Benacerraf, who shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his pioneering work explaining why some people are able to fight off infections and tumors while others are not, died Tuesday at his Boston home. He was 90.
The cause was...Tags: Research, Medical Research, Elections, Columbia University, Science and Technology
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Test linked to fewer colorectal cancer deaths
A single sigmoidoscopy between ages 55 and 64 can reduce deaths from colorectal cancer by at least 43%, British researchers reported Tuesday. The results from the first large randomized trial of sigmoidoscopy show that it is a more effective tool than...Tags: Colon, Medical Procedures and Tests, Trials, University of California, Los Angeles, Health Organizations
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A cancer cocktail's edge
Special to the Los Angeles TimesEven if a vaccine produces an appropriate cancer-attacking immune response, it still may not be enough to achieve clinical benefit, especially in patients with very advanced disease. This could be because the ability of large tumors to suppress the...Tags: Vaccines, Trials, Skin Cancer, Crime, Law and Justice, Cancer
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Coming soon in the medical arsenal against cancer: vaccines
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIt's a deceptively simple idea: What if doctors could recruit the body's own immune system to fight cancer? The complexities of the immune system have kept this from becoming reality, until now. Three cancer vaccines -- for prostate cancer, melanoma and...Tags: Leukemia, Vaccines, Trials, Skin Cancer, University of California, Los Angeles
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FDA approves first oral drug to slow multiple sclerosis progression
A failed anti-rejection drug got a new purpose and a new lease on commercial life Wednesday as the Food and Drug Administration approved the medication fingolimod -- to be marketed as Gilenya -- to slow the progression of disability in multiple...Tags: Multiple Sclerosis, Trials, Nervous System, Crime, Law and Justice, Human Body
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Cancer screening: What could it hurt? A lot, actually
It seemed like a good idea at the time.
In 1984, Japan began screening the urine of 6-month-old infants for neuroblastoma, the most common type of solid tumor in young children. The test was simple and could show signs of cancer long before clinical...Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, Medical Research, Health Organizations, Prostate, Social Issues
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Many men with low-risk prostate cancer overtreated, study finds
About three-quarters of men with low-risk prostate tumors that can safely be ignored for months or years receive aggressive treatment, despite the risk of complications, researchers reported Monday. The findings, published in the Archives of Internal...Tags: Medical Research, Cancer, Prostate, Radiation Therapy, Diseases and Illnesses
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Therapies' benefits unclear
Los Angeles TimesIn a quest to look younger, be healthier and feel more vital later in life, increasing numbers of men, just like Jeffry Life, are turning to testosterone and human growth hormone. Use of both hormones is controversial. Read on: Testosterone: "Older men ....Tags: IMS Health Incorporated, Aging, Diabetes, Medical Research, Sleep Apnea
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Grant money could speed stem cell cures
Dr. Karen Aboody estimates that she has cured several hundred mice of a cancer of the central nervous system called neuroblastoma.
First she injected them with specialized neural stem cells that naturally zero in on the tumors and surround them. Then she...Tags: Science, University of Southern California, Diabetes, Trials, Research
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Junipero Serra needs just one more miracle
In a basement at Old Mission Santa Barbara, a filing cabinet is thick with claims of miracles that didn't make the grade.
A man falls off his horse and, thanks to Junipero Serra, he gets up unscathed. A woman visits Serra's tomb in Carmel and something...Tags: Christianity, Science, Skull, U.S. Air Force, Science and Technology
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