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After three operations and four rounds of chemotherapy at Georgetown University Hospital, cancer patient Deborah Charles shows off her breast cancer survivor bracelet during a hospital appointment in Washington May 23, 2007. REUTERS/Jim Bourg
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A pastry chef cuts a block of butter from Denmark for making pastries at Sydney’s Edith and Rose bakery on February 11, 2008. (Photo: Anoek De Groot / AFP)
Butter not Tied to Heart Disease
London-Despite decades on the list of “bad” fats that harm the heart, butter, on its own, is not linked to increased risk of heart disease after all, according to a recent analysis of existing research. Eating more butter was even weakly tied to a lower risk of...Caption:
Obese women in New York. Reuters
Weight Loss Surgery Helps Keep Pounds off 10 Years Later
London-Ten years after gastric-bypass weight-loss surgery, patients in a recent study had managed to keep off much of the weight they’d lost. Even more important, they also saw reductions in other medical problems, such as diabetes, high blood pressure, high...Caption:
U.S. Panel Approves First Test of CRISPR Editing in Humans
The Washington Post By Laurie McGinley A National Institutes of Health advisory panel has approved the first human use of the gene-editing technology CRISPR, for a study designed to target three types of cancer and funded by tech billionaire Sean Parker’s new...Caption:
New prostate therapy
New Treatment Promising Prostate Cancer-Free Body in 90 Minutes
Tel Aviv- London- Researchers, in a groundbreaking discovery, developed a photodynamic treatment which targets and terminates early stage prostate cancer tumors within 90 min. The treatment, discovered by two Weizmann Institute professors, has been developed and...Caption:
New recruit “Pepper” the robot, a humanoid robot designed to welcome and take care of visitors and patients, holds the hand of a newborn baby at AZ Damiaan hospital in Ostend, Belgium. Reuters