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Researchers have found a faulty gene that may be a cause of most prostate cancer. The defect prevents cells from making an enzyme that fights off carcinogenic chemicals. The discovery could lead to better blood tests and even a drug treatment for the disease...
...people, she says, the new findings suggest a protein is sending the wrong signal, resulting in lower metabolism and excessive hunger. "The implications for the moment are more psychological than medical or therapeutic," Gorman says. "We don't know how many of the obese people out there have this defect. But this does make the point they are fighting their own genetics."Post your opinion on theHealth & Medecinebulletin board...
...example, aborting a fetus with a fatal genetic defect may hold different implications than absorbing one in which the "abnormal" gene is less severe, as in Down's syndrome...
...Chicago scientists admit to another possible defect: "There is no way to get around the fact some people might conceal information," says Stuart Michaels of the Chicago team, whose expertise is designing questions to get at those subjects people are most reluctant to discuss. The biggest hot button, he says, is homosexuality. "This is a stigmatized group. There is probably a lot more homosexual activity going on than we could get people to talk about...
...Policies that will not stand us in good stead have been included due to short-term considerations or political expediency," the memo read. "The neglect of longer-term, indirect, effects of policies is a serious defect of the package of changes you have put forward...