Word: colonics
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...colon and rectal cancer, --impotence...
...didn't really surprise me when I awoke one day to see a front-page newspaper story on c225, an experimental drug aimed at colon cancer. Was it the next Herceptin? For some insight, I sought out a few experts. "I think [the drug] has promise," said Dr. Derek Raghavan, chief of medical oncology at the University of Southern California. "But my take on listening to the talk wasn't that it was the breakthrough of the meeting." Nor, he implied, was it really necessarily worthy of Page One. And if you know a little about the drug-approval ritual...
Still, there's no doubt that CT scans offer great potential as a screening tool. They're already providing useful snapshots of the coronary arteries, colon and lungs. Someday they may even replace more invasive tests. We're just not there...
FIBER FILL Who says loading up on fiber is a waste? Just weeks after reports that fiber-rich foods probably don't protect against colon cancer, a study shows that they may benefit folks with a different disease. Diabetics who eat 50g of fiber a day--equivalent to seven or eight portions of fruits and veggies--had lower and more stable glucose levels than those who barely touched the stuff. (There was another advantage: cholesterol dropped an average of 7%.) Best foods are those high in soluble fiber, such as papaya, oranges, zucchini and whole grains like oatmeal. Insulin...
...Arts and Business in Queens, N.Y., Stephen Drakes, was there at 8 a.m., and he wasn't letting me near the p.a. Instead, he gave me a schedule of classes that he wanted me to visit. Because I hadn't been up at 8 a.m. since Katie Couric's colon was IMAXed on the Today show, it took me a while to realize I had been sent back to high school...