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Although testicular cancer is fairly easy to treat, as cancers go, it is on the rise. An article in the August Journal of Urology reports that the incidence of the disease has shot up 51% over the past 40 years. And while it's typically diagnosed between ages 30 and 35, with a second, smaller peak in men over 65, testicular cancer is now showing up in younger and younger men. Despite its low profile, in fact it's the most prevalent form of cancer among men in their...
Nobody knows why this is happening, but researchers think that identifying risk factors may help solve the mystery. Genetics clearly plays a role: in the Journal study, more than 11,000 of the U.S. cases cited involved white men, while fewer than 650 victims were nonwhites. International data tell the same story: Northern Europeans are particularly vulnerable, and Scandinavians have the highest rate in the world...
Sources--Good News: New England Journal of Medicine (8/26/99), American Journal of Psychiatry (8/99); Bad News: (1 & 2) Journal of the American Medical Association (8/25/99...
...doctors? Not for a long while - unless you live in a rural area. Though applications to study medicine are down, med schools are still getting several requests for each place on their rosters - and still turning out the same number of graduates. In fact, the Journal of the American Medical Association reported last year that one quarter of new doctors reported difficulties finding a job after their internships were completed. Much of the reason for this is that most doctors want to live in or near big cities, not in the vast rural sections of the country that are chronically...
...give you a headache? Take heart ?- a new study of alcohol?s affect on the ol? ticker says that when it comes to reaping the benefits of moderate drinking, any booze will do. The study, from researchers at Harvard Medical School and published in the American Heart Association's journal, Circulation, is the largest to date: 21,537 men over a 12-year period. It follows much debate about the so-called French Paradox, the contention that the consumption of red wine - thought to contain anti-fat ingredients other than those found in alcohol - was responsible for relatively low rates...