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Based on this and other studies, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force said there was insufficient evidence to assess the balance of benefits and harms of prostate-cancer screening in men younger than age 75. The task force recommended against prostate-cancer screening in men 75 and older...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME's Top 10 Medical Breakthroughs of 2009 | 12/8/2009 | See Source »

...tackles the problem in a different way ? by curbing the formation of the bone-gnawing cells. That tilts the balance in favor of bone-building. In two studies published in August, the experimental compound denosumab was shown to reduce the risk of fractures in postmenopausal women as well as men being treated for prostate cancer, the two largest patient populations at risk for bone loss. What's not clear, however, is how the new drug, if approved, would compare with existing osteoporosis drugs like Fosamax, Boniva and Reclast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME's Top 10 Medical Breakthroughs of 2009 | 12/8/2009 | See Source »

It’s funny that the Big Green should ask about bagels, as the Dartmouth women’s squash team ate one of its own in a 9-0 loss to Harvard the same day. Meanwhile, the Crimson men won 6-3, to give the Big Green its first loss of the season, moving its record from 3-0 to 3-1. Maybe their fans should have given bagels a little more respect...

Author: By Christina C. Mcclintock, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bagels and Smear? | 12/8/2009 | See Source »

...pigeons, have been killed in Mexico City. On Dec. 2, Edgar Bayardo - a former high-ranking federal police official whose information led to last year's indictment of Mexico's federal police chief and other top cops for alleged narco-corruption - was fatally riddled with bullets by two hit men dressed in suits as he sipped coffee in a Starbucks. Last month, Jesús Zambada, the nephew of a top drug-cartel boss, Ismael (El Mayo) Zambada, was found dead in the federal safe house where he was being guarded. Officials say he hanged himself, but few in Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico's Witness-Protection Program: What Protection? | 12/8/2009 | See Source »

...Administration. So it's all the more astonishing that he was allowed to roam as freely, as openly and as unprotected as he was at noon on Wednesday, when he was sitting in a Starbucks in Mexico City's middle-class Del Valle neighborhood with a family friend. Two men with machine guns nonchalantly entered, walked to Bayardo's table and fired more than a dozen rounds, killing him and wounding the friend and a nearby customer. They just as calmly walked out and drove away in an SUV. Officials tell TIME that Bayardo, whose activity had made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mexico's Witness-Protection Program: What Protection? | 12/8/2009 | See Source »

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