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...Washington Prostate-Screening Rethink For men ages 75 and older, the potential harm from being tested and treated for prostate cancer far outweighs the benefit, according to new recommendations from a U.S. government body that sets standards for preventive medicine. The panel concluded that, for elderly patients, treatment is often debilitating and reduces quality of life, while the disease itself might have minimal impact during a patient's lifetime if left alone. It also found that a test widely used to screen for the disease may not be wholly beneficial for younger men either...
...study's two principal authors said in a press conference Wednesday that such treatments remained years away and that the more immediate impact of the disease-specific stem cells will be the ability to study disease progression and test potential treatments in a lab setting...
Both scientists repeatedly said that research on therapeutic cloning should not be abandoned, in large part because they said it was necessary to test the utility of reprogrammed cells against an embryonic stem cell bench mark...
Though the researchers expressed optimism about their ability to use the reprogrammed stem cells to study the progression of Lou Gehrig's disease and test potential treatments, a number of hurdles remain to discovering such therapies...
...Gore proposed a new sort of infrastructure spending: a massive alternative-energy program - $15 billion a year for 10 years - to replace the country's dependence on fossil fuels like oil and coal. You may not remember this plan, because Gore's political consultants decided it didn't "test" well. It has now been revived by Obama, who has been logging a lot of phone time with Gore. But Obama has changed the emphasis a bit to promote "green collar" job development, like programs to retrofit public buildings to conserve energy. Obama also has a new take on traditional infrastructure...