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Faith and Longevity If belief in a pill can be so powerful, belief in God and the teachings of religion - which touch devout people at a far more profound level than mere pharmacology - ought to be even more so. One way to test this is simply to study the health of regular churchgoers. Social demographer Robert Hummer of the University of Texas has been following a population of subjects since 1992, and his results are hard to argue with. Those who never attend religious services have twice the risk of dying over the next eight years as people who attend...
Currently a man must undergo a series of diagnostic tests, including a surgical biopsy, to confirm that he has prostate cancer. But no test is able to determine reliably whether the cancer is slow-growing and probably nonfatal or aggressive and in need of immediate treatment. (Read "Halting Hormone Therapy Reduces Breast-Cancer Risk Quickly...
Cancer of the prostate is the most common type among men in the developed world. In the U.S., where 186,000 people receive the diagnosis each year, only skin cancer is more common. But despite its prevalence, the lack of a fail-safe test is a frustration to physicians. Currently, older men at risk of prostate cancer undergo a PSA test, which detects a protein called prostate-specific antigen in the blood. Men who have elevated PSA levels, which may indicate cancer, undergo invasive biopsies but often end up not having the disease at all. Even when the biopsy finds...
Given the risks and side effects of biopsies - which range from infection to impotence - an accurate diagnostic tool for physicians as straightforward as a urine test "would be, well, wonderful," says Cory Abate-Shen, a professor at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons who authored a commentary accompanying the paper for Nature. "But that's something that will require large clinical trials to develop...
...good, we’ll put it on the menu,” our waiter told us. Or rather, challenged us. As it turns out, he had told the bartender to come up with a rival concoction, and he would decide the winner based on a random taste test among other customers. After a few minutes of brainstorming, we called our waiter over.“Here you have it,” we told him. “The Obama: Kahlua, Vodka, Baileys, and coconut liqueur, served over ice. Kahlua for his black side, Vodka for his white side...