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With no clear link between cancer and Vytorin, medics advise to use the drug cautiously.

Results from three studies of the cholesterol-lowering drug Vytorin are not enough to prove or rule out a possible link to a higher risk of cancer, so the drug should be used with great caution until more is ...

02.09.2008 21:00:51 - Health News

For Widely Used Drug, Question of Usefulness Is Still Lingering

When the Food and Drug Administration approved a new type of cholesterol-lowering medicine in 2002, it did so on the basis of a handful of clinical trials covering a total of 3,900 patients.

02.09.2008 16:49:55 - Health News

Surviving Cancer

The chances of cancer survival improves drastically since the 60's.

02.09.2008 12:19:49 - Health News

Americans adopting HIV-positive kids from Ethiopia

Solomon Henderson inherited just three things from his birth parents, who left him at an Ethiopian orphanage when he was 1 year old: a picture of Jesus, a plastic crucifix and HIV.

As one of some 14,000 Ethiopian children born with the virus every year, Solomon's prospects for survival _ much less adoption _ were grim. But Erin Henderson's heart stirred when she saw him, and she decided, on the spot, to adopt him.

'They told me that they weren't sure he would live through the weekend,' Henderson said by e-mail from her home in rural Wyoming, where she lives with her husband and 11 children, two of whom are HIV-positive adoptees from Ethiopia.

02.09.2008 07:55:40 - Health News

HPV Shot = Severe Allergy Reactions?

Young women in Australia who got a vaccine to prevent cervical cancer were five to 20 times more likely to have a rare but severe allergic reaction than girls who got other vaccines in comparable school-based ...

02.09.2008 03:29:50 - Health News

Goody has 'life threatening cancer'

GOODY HAS 'LIFE THREATENING CANCER' The court heard that Jade Goody has 'advanced cancer' Reality television star Jade Goody is suffering from "advanced and life threatening" cervical cancer, a court heard.

01.09.2008 23:15:25 - Health News

Coffee.

A good brew ... women who drink a lot of coffee may have less risk of developing cancer of the uterus.

01.09.2008 19:03:33 - Health News

Schoolgirls get cervical cance...

A programme to vaccinate schoolgirls against the virus which causes cervical cancer has begun.

01.09.2008 14:34:34 - Health News

Laboring longer is growing trend for Americans

Americans are changing the game plan for retirement, with millions laboring right past the traditional retirement age and working into their late 60s and beyond.

While the average retirement age remains 63, that standard may soon be going the way of the gold watch _ a trend expected to accelerate as baby boomers close in on retirement without sufficient savings.

For 64-year-old John Lee, 'retirement' bears a strong resemblance to his full-time working career _ full of 40- and 50-hour weeks as an IT technical support specialist. He's not strapped but likes the extra cash and the feeling of being needed.

01.09.2008 10:18:00 - Health News

The catch-all cancer drug to target every type of tumour

A breakthrough in cancer research could lead to a 'one-size-fits-all' drug that can tackle all forms of the disease.

01.09.2008 05:51:34 - Health News