VitaBeat Health News - January 8, 2009

New Study May Help Breast Cancer Treatment

September 6, 2005 - Topics study, breast cancer, cancer, disease and medicine
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.

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Study: Dutch Doctors Skirt Edge of Euthanasia Laws

September 6, 2005 - Topics study and child
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.

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Hot Dog Preservative May Prove A Potent Healer

September 6, 2005 - Topics disease, anemia, pharmaceutical, blood and meat
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.

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New Test May Help Predict Breast Cancer Spread

September 6, 2005 - Topics breast cancer, cancer, disease, medicine and women
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.

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Scientists Study Orgasms In Women

September 6, 2005 - Topics women, study, research, men and sex
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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