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...That's a little overdramatic, to be sure, but it is now probably reasonable to add dementia to the ever growing list of obesity-related illnesses. For some time, researchers have known that carrying a lot of extra weight is not only linked to chronic diseases like arthritis and cancer but may also be a risk factor for brain diseases like Alzheimer's. And now, using sophisticated brain scans, scientists may be a step closer to showing how that works...
Unlike most sexually transmitted infections, human papillomavirus (HPV) typically runs its course without causing illness. Fully half of U.S. adults have been infected without even knowing it. But in a small percentage of cases, the disease progresses to cervical cancer, which kills 4,000 women in the U.S. and 250,000 worldwide each year. Researchers have developed a vaccine that appears to be 100% effective against the two strains of HPV that cause 70% of cervical cancers. The vaccine may be available next year, but is likely to cause controversy if, as expected, it is recommended for girls before they...
...BREAST CANCER...
Panelists also talked about the relationship between political decision-makers and the press. Glen Johnson described a conflict between John Kerry and himself, regarding Kerry’s prostate cancer...
When Johnson, a close observer of Kerry, had asked the Senator whether he was ill in 2003, he received an emphatic denial, only to learn the next week that Kerry had been recently diagnosed with prostate cancer...