| Lipoic Acid Could Reduce Atherosclerosis, Weight Gain
ScienceDaily (Jan. 17, 2008) A new study done with mice has discovered that supplements of lipoic acid can inhibit formation of arterial lesions, lower triglycerides, and reduce blood vessel inflammation and weight gain -- all key issues for addressing cardiovascular disease. .
Study Determines Breast-Specific Gamma Imaging Has Higher Specificity ...
NEWPORT NEWS, Va., Oct. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Recently published study results in The Breast Journal indicate that Breast-Specific Gamma Imaging (BSGI) may be more specific than MRI for evaluating patients with equivocal mammographic findings. The study, compiled by Dr. Rachel Brem and colleagues at The George Washington University Medical Center, compared the use of BSGI and MRI for women with an indeterminate mammogram. Standard procedure requires women with an indeterminate mammogram to have additional clinical work-ups. According to Dr. Brem, Breast Specific Gamma Imaging (BSGI) -- nuclear medicine imaging of the breast -- is a physiologic approach to breast imaging. BSGI uses a high-resolution gamma camera and Tc-Sestamibi. Previous patient examinations demonstrated high-resolution cameras to be superior to conventional gamma imaging for both detecting breast cancer and screening high-risk patients.
Cancer woman runs out of time in NHS battle
A WOMAN suffering from breast cancer has run out of time to benefit from a potentially life-extending drug which the National Health Service (NHS) denied her, even though she was prepared to pay for it. Colette Mills has been told by doctors that in the four months since she asked for the drug the disease has taken such a hold in her body that the cancer will no longer respond to the treatment. She is the victim of a ruling which states that any patient who wants to pay for additional drugs not prescribed by the NHS should lose their entitlement to their basic NHS cancer care and pay for all their treatment. She was prepared to pay for the drug but not her whole treatment. Mills, a 58-year-old former nurse, said: "I am just absolutely gutted. I just cannot believe people make these decisions about other people’s lives.
And the Oscar Goes to…
Hillary Clinton does not do anything that is not coldly, if not icily calculated. However, seeing her ambitions and life's work of becoming the first female president go down into the primordial-primary ooze may be something for which she might exhibit a little emotion. She showed no emotion when I met with her along with another Gold Star Mother, Lynn Braddach from Oregon, whose son Travis Nall was also KIA in Iraq. We poured our hearts and souls out to her and she hardly even blinked, let alone shed a tear for our heartbreak that she had been a major neo-connette chearleader for. That meeting happened in September of 2005, just a few short weeks after we left Camp Casey in Crawford, Tx on August 31, 2005. Anti-war sentiment was high and the apex was a mass march and rally that hundreds of thousands of like-minded (many for the first time) attended in the belly of the evil empire on September 24th.
Fighting for Justice, Even at His Own Peril
Haneef had given it to him in June 2006, and the card still had unused time on it. Public opinion abruptly shifted, with Dr. Haneef being seen as a victim of Australia's harsh antiterrorism laws and racism. Within two weeks the government dropped all criminal charges against him, but it revoked his visa and he returned to India. Mr. Keim, however, became the target of a new investigation. The commissioner of the Australian Federal Police, Mick Keelty, filed a complaint with the Queensland agency that oversees allegations of lawyer misconduct, as did a private lawyer, Russell Biddle. Releasing the transcript was "unprofessional and inappropriate," the federal police said in a statement, and resulted in "a great deal of misinformed and speculative reporting." Lawyers are prohibited here from releasing any documents that have not been filed in court.
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