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 VitaBeat Health News - January 8, 2009
| Doctors say a new test that looks at immune cells in the lymph nodes may be the best way to predict whether breast cancer has spread and is likely to resurface. Currently, the best way to predict whether breast cancer is likely to recur is to search lymph nodes near the breast for tumor cells. | | A new study finds that doctors in the Netherlands, the first country to legalize euthanasia for terminally ill people, are actually hastening the deaths of sick children, sometimes at the boundaries of what the law allows. Researchers looked at 64 deaths of ill children during a four-month period. Of those, 42 cases involved medical decisions that could hasten death. | | Scientists at the National Institutes of Health are infusing sodium nitrite into volunteers in hopes that it can prove a cheap but potent treatment for sickle cell anemia, heart attacks, brain aneurysms, even an illness that suffocates babies. Those ailments have something in common: They hinge on problems with low oxygen, problems the government's research suggests nitrite can ease, The Associated Press reports. | | Doctors say a new test that looks at immune cells in the lymph nodes may be the best way to predict whether breast cancer has spread and is likely to resurface. Currently, the best way to predict whether breast cancer is likely to recur is to search lymph nodes near the breast for tumor cells. | | The latest research by academics suggests a neurological rather than pharmaceutical solution is needed when it comes to achieving orgasms for women. This is due in part to women being more affected by mood, self-esteem and other issues of psyche than men, researchers say. | |
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