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Behavior/Lifestyle Factors Influence Cancer Risk Among The Elderly
Behavioral risk factors have a significant effect on cancer risk in the U.S. elderly population, according to research presented at the American Association for Cancer Research's Seventh Annual International Conference on Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research.

Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report Highlights Medicare Drug Benefit Open Enrollment News
Summaries of recent articles about the Medicare prescription drug benefit appear below. Open enrollment for the benefit begins on Saturday and ends on Dec. 31.Campaign: Healthcare Leadership Council President Mary Grealy and former Sens. John Breaux (D-La.) and Trent Lott (R-Miss.

Three Esophageal, Stomach Cancer Subtypes Linked To Smoking; One Associated With Alcohol Use
Researchers who have been following the health of more than 120,000 residents of the Netherlands for more than two decades have found that smoking is associated with two forms of esophageal cancer as well as a form of stomach cancer, and that drinking alcohol is strongly linked to one form of esophageal cancer.

Robotic Assisted Neck Surgery Spares Incision, Scar
Surgeons at the University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago have performed an innovative robotic-assisted procedure to remove parathyroid glands without an incision or scar on the patient's neck. Bilal Akbar, 53, suffered from hyperparathyroidism caused by chronic kidney failure. His overactive parathyroid glands produced too much parathyroid hormone (PTH), which caused dangerously high calcium levels in the blood. This can lead to bone, blood vessel and heart damage.

World COPD Day 2008 Features New Initiatives That Drive Enhanced Diagnosis And Treatment
World COPD Day 2008 features new patient and health professional initiatives that address the misconceptions and lack of awareness surrounding chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).

500-Patient Study Measuring Cognitive Processing Efficiency During Migraine Attacks
PHT Corporation, the market-leading provider of electronic patient reported outcome (ePRO) solutions used in more than 360 clinical trials worldwide, is providing its innovative LogPad(R) System to help headache experts at Clinvest Clinical Research measure cognitive deficits during migraine attacks in a sponsored clinical trial.

Vitamin E And C Don't Change Cancer Risk, Long Term Study
A large-scale long term study taking up to ten years and involving older American men found that Vitamin E and Vitamin C were no different to placebo in protecting against cancer.

Hepatitis C Therapeutic DNA Vaccine Delivered By Inovio Biomedical's Electroporation Technology Reduces Viral Load By Up To 99.7%
Inovio Biomedical Corporation (AMEX:INO), a leader in enabling the development of DNA vaccines using electroporation-based DNA delivery, announced today that its partner, Tripep AB, reported positive additional interim results from its ongoing phase I/II clinical study of its therapeutic DNA vaccine against hepatitis C virus (HCV).

GeneThera Releases Results From Initial Animal Tests Of E.Coli O157:h7 Vaccine Amid News Of Increase Of E.Coli Discoveries In Beef Products
GeneThera, Inc. (Pink Sheets: GTHR), released information about its E.Coli O157:H7 vaccine. The vaccine consists of Live Attenuated Bacterial Vaccine to Reduce or Inhibit Carriage and Shedding of Enterohemorrihagic Escherichia Coli in Cattle. This vaccine was developed for use against Shiga toxin-producing E.Coli (STEC) in cattle.

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