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Doggie 'doctors' diagnose their owners' ills - Creature Comforts- msnbc.com

In the past few years, studies have shown that dogs can sniff out both early and late stage lung and breast cancers. The Pine Street Foundation, a non-profit cancer education and research organization, in San Anselmo, Calif., is even training dogs to recognize ovarian cancer.

Chinese Pollution = Increase in Cancer

In attempting to increase its economic development, the Chinese regime has managed to increase its mortality rates. China is one of the most polluted countries in the world, if not the most polluted.

Statistics furnished by the World Bank are astonishing: 16 of the 20 most polluted cities in the world are located in China; 90% of urban groundwater in China is contaminated; it is estimated that circa 900,000 people die every year from air and water pollution.

Highly toxic heavy metals such as lead and mercury contaminate cultivable terrain thus poisoning the food, while the number of Chinese citizens who die due to lung cancer and other serious respiratory diseases is constantly increasing....

Scientist to Congress: Oil Execs Commit High Crimes

Testimony to US Congress will also criticize lobbyists. "Revolutionary" policies needed to tackle crisis.

New York - James Hansen, one of the world's leading climate scientists, will today call for the chief executives of large fossil fuel companies to be put on trial for high crimes against humanity and nature, accusing them of actively spreading doubt about global warming in the same way that tobacco companies blurred the links between smoking and cancer.

New Treatment Saves Man With Deadly Skin Cancer

An experimental treatment that boosted a 52-year-old patient s immune system to fight advanced skin cancer was successful, his doctors report.

Kennedy out of 'successful' brain surgery

DURHAM, N.C. (AP) -- After investigating all his options with his trademark intensity, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy underwent 3 1/2 hours of risky and exquisitely delicate surgery Monday to cut out as much of his cancerous brain tumor as possible....

Vaccine doubles survival of deadly brain cancer

A cancer vaccine more than doubled the survival time of people with the most common and deadly type of brain tumor, U.S. researchers said on Monday.

Melting Antarctic glaciers may be releasing DDT, says study

Adélie penguins in the Antarctic are as chock-full of pesticide DDT as they were in the 1970s, even though global DDT use has dropped 80 percent in the past three decades, says new research published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology. Researchers speculate that climate change is at fault -- honestly, is there anything climate change is not mucking up? -- as concentrations of the pesticide that had been trapped in ice are released by glacial melt and travel up the food chain. DDT has been banned in the northern hemisphere, but the World Health Organization has endorsed its controlled use to fight malaria in Africa. The purpose of the study "was not to further vilify DDT," says lead author Heidi Geisz, but to research how persistent the pesticide and other pollutants of its ilk can be.

sources: ScienceDaily, The New York Times
see also, in Grist: Study suggests link between DDT exposure and breast cancer

Last surviving Brown v. Board plaintiff dies at 88

Last surviving Brown v. Board plaintiff dies at 88 - Yahoo! News: "TOPEKA, Kan. - The last surviving plaintiff in Topeka's Brown v. Board of Education case, which led to the historic 1954 Supreme Court ruling outlawing segregation in public schools, has died at 88. elma Henderson died Tuesday in Topeka, six weeks after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Her son, Donald, said she wasn't

The Secret Medical Records of Presidential Candidates (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - Senator Paul Tsongas had a secret when he ran in the 1992 Democratic presidential primary - his non-Hodgkin's lymphoma had returned despite a bone-marrow transplant. Yet Tsongas and his physicians continued to claim he was "cancer-free" and his true medical condition became public only after his campaign folded. Had voters elected him president instead of Bill Clinton, Tsongas would have endured crippling cancer treatments and died in office, as he did just a few years later. "I don't know if he could have even gone to the inauguration. ...

How to marry a Canadian

Many Canadians have no sense of humor. My ad was intended as a political statement. I've teetered on the brink of bankruptcy for years, and I'm tired of waiting for guaranteed, affordable health care. When I posted the ad, I added a footnote: "If I do marry a Canadian citizen, I expect the Canadian government to send George Bush, or whoever follows him into the Oval Office, a bill for the $300,000 annual cost of my cancer care."

Laser detects disease in your breath

The device reliably detected trace levels of methane, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide in the breath samples. The device was able to detect higher levels of carbon monoxide in the breath of a smoker compared to a non-smoking participant. The device also distinguished ammonia an indicator of kidney failure from water, which can be a tricky issue because of the similarity of the compounds.

Drug repository would help low-income folks

I have a better alternative, a legal way to pass these expensive meds on to people who need them: a drug repository. Wisconsin, Ohio, Georgia, Nebraska (since 2003), Maryland, Illinois, New York and Missouri already have drug respositories. Another half-dozen states are working to set them up.

Be thin to cut cancer, study says

Shed weight, avoid bacon and cut alcohol consumption if you want to reduce your cancer risk, a major report urges.

How Low Will Komen GO?: A Contest

"The message I get, loud and clear, is EXPLOITATION. I feel exploited by Komen, and by companies that market stupid products with pink ribbons on them."

Wanted: Husband with Canadian health care

Jeanne is a friend and a cancer survivor. She lost the lottery for a cancer free life and in our country has to pay tooth and nail for the right to drugs and treatment. I think it's unconscionable that our country operates in this manner.