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Using a new tumor-seeking compound injected into the bloodstream, four Harvard Medical School (HMS) professors have developed a system to detect the location and stages of cancerous growths...
Using a new tumor-seeking compound injected into the bloodstream, four Harvard Medical School (HMS) professors have developed a system to detect the location and stages of cancerous growths...
...flooding the body with toxic chemotherapy drugs in an effort to overwhelm the malignancy. While the drugs do kill cancer cells, they also destroy most of the disease-fighting cells in the immune system. That's why doctors harvest marrow cells from the bones or stem cells from the bloodstream--both of which give rise to new immune cells--before they begin chemotherapy. When the treatment is done, these cells are reinfused into the body, in the hope that the immune system will rebound. Punishing as the therapy is, advocates say it can work, and patients are clamoring...
...missing link to the reasoning,? says Gorman, ?is that although eggs do contain cholesterol, it turns out they do not increase cholesterol in the bloodstream that much.? The bigger contributors are foods with saturated fats and trans-fatty acids. And so the problem does not turn out to be eggs so much as ?how eggs are consumed in the U.S. -- as in eggs with bacon,? says Gorman. If people insist on eating their eggs with meats, whole milk or doughnuts, they will be heading for trouble. And the latest study does include one major caveat for egg lovers: Stay away...
Manufactured by SmithKline Beecham under the brand name Lymerix, the new vaccine operates on the principle that the best defense is a good offense. Unlike other vaccines, it targets disease-causing organisms outside the body, in the tick, rather than after they've invaded the bloodstream. Here's how it works...