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Superfoods are foods that have many health benefits due to their phytonutrient content. These health-giving foods can reduce cholesterol, treat hypertension, aid in weight maintenance, and ward off cancer, heart disease, and diabetes.
A healthy diet incorporating a variety of superfoods can reduce occurrence of common ailments and extend lifespan. Superfoods that offer health benefits include: […]

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Qigong, a form of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), may be a potential complementary treatment for osteoarthritis, according to a study conducted at University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. The study, led by Kevin Chen, Ph.D. and Dr. Adam Perlman, appears in a recent edition of Clinical Rheumatology.
Arthritis is the primary cause of chronic […]

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Moxibustion is an Oriental medicine therapy utilizing moxa, or mugwort herb. In the traditional medical systems of China, Japan, Korea, and Tibet, moxibustion plays a vital role. Moxa, also known as Artemesia Vulgaris in Latin, is a Chinese herb which is applied externally.
Practitioners age the mugwort, which is then ground up and processed into a […]

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An unsettling fact about lung cancer is that not even clean living can guarantee a free pass. A significant proportion of cases — 10 to 15 percent — occur in people who never smoked, and just in the United States, 16,000 to 24,000 a year die.

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A recent study of non-smokers’ lung cancer at PLoS Medicine shows her case was not unusual. Each year 20,000 people in the U.S. die of lung cancer who never smoked themselves.

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 Lung cancer remains the number one killer for both men and women in the United States, claiming an estimated 160,000 lives this year.The vast majority of cases occur in smokers or former smokers, but around 20,000 non-smokers also succumb to this devastating disease.
Recently, some studies have indicated that lung cancer in non-smokers is increasing, and that women are more susceptible to it than men.

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Genetic variations, along with having a strong lung cancer family history, will lead to a five times increased risk of developing the disease, a new study suggests.

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It’s a C-T scan to stabalize the patient for treatment planning without having the patient move from one room to anohter. Another treatment, the Belo System, focuses on lung cancer. Straped to a patients chest it detects the breathing cycle and pressure changes. Then there’s the Optical Guidance System; an equipped camera that tracks the movement of the patients chest and records the motion of the tumor when the person breathes. The Optical Guidance tool is also used for precise detection of brain and neck cancer. It’s non invasive and uses a mouth piece to hold a camera in position while the patient wears a special head mask helping the person to keep still during the procedure.

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Zhang said the new study is the first to comprehensively characterize entire blood miRNA profiles of healthy subjects and patients with lung cancer, colorectal cancer and diabetes, ruling out contamination. The researchers propose the specific serum miRNA expression profiles they identified constitute “fingerprints” for cancer and disease.

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Pfizer announced today that important study results involving the company’s leading anticancer agent, SUTENT®(sunitinib malate), as well as data examining an investigational agent, CP-751,871, will be presented at the 33rd European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) Congress in Stockholm, 12—16 September 2008.
Researchers will present results of several analyses evaluating the cost effectiveness of SUTENT® as first-line therapy in patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC), as well as updated data from a pivotal Phase III trial in mRCC. In addition, researchers will present updated results for CP-751,871, a novel anti-IGF-1R antibody, and the first in its class to initiate Phase III trials in patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

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