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...those images tend to be airbrushed versions of the truth. The video used in the study - which shows two daughters talking to and then feeding their mother - was meant to provide a reality check. Even so, he says, the full "clinical reality" of the condition - such as bladder and bowel incontinence - was withheld. "We wanted it to be honest but not overly emotive or visceral," he says...
...That's why Goody's imminent death from cervical cancer that has metastasized to her bowel, liver and groin is a matter of national importance, discussed at the highest levels and boosting the number of women in Britain seeking cervical screening 21%. "It's very sad and tragic that someone so young has got this deadly disease of cancer," Prime Minister Gordon Brown mused at his Downing Street press conference on Feb. 18. "I know the whole country will be worried and anxious." (See pictures of Gordon Brown...
...comes to bugs like bacteria and parasites, we've been trained to think that less is better. But there are some good guys in the microbial world - bugs that do the unglamorous work of keeping us regular and helping to relieve a range of disorders from diarrhea to irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). Now a new study suggests that the same microbes may even help us stay slim...
...butt of a few jokes around the pub. What she didn't realize - at least not fully - was just how important her subject was. George's new book The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters delves into the taboo subject of bowel evacuation, with tact, sensitivity - and the right amount of style. Reporting on the sewers of London and the slums of New Delhi and the high-tech toilets of Tokyo, George comes to understand that sanitation is no laughing matter - it's the difference between life and death. "I thought a toilet...
...There is no question that the large-bowel microflora [bacteria] are important for human health and that probiotics can contribute positively," says David Topping, a chief research scientist at Australia's premier science body, the CSIRO. "But there is much that we don't know about the nature of the benefits they give...