Archive for July, 2009

Combination Therapy Best for Aggressive Prostate Cancer (HealthDay)

July 15th, 2009 by Greg | No Comments | Filed in General Health

HealthDay – MONDAY, July 13 (HealthDay News) — Men with aggressive prostate cancer
who have brachytherapy alone are more likely to die than those who receive
a combination of treatments, new findings show.

As 23 states get even fatter, heavy costs loom

July 5th, 2009 by Greg | No Comments | Filed in General Health

For the fifth year in a row, Mississippi ranked first in fatness, according to a Robert Wood Johnson study on obesity in America. NBC's Brian Williams reports.  (Nightly News)Mississippi’s still king of cellulite, but an ominous tide is rolling toward the Medicare doctors in neighboring Alabama: obese baby boomers.

Capri pants bare scourge of summer: ‘cankles’

July 5th, 2009 by Greg | No Comments | Filed in General Health

Still obsessing about how your dimpled thighs, jelly belly or flappy arms look in a swimsuit? That’s so last summer. This year, there’s a new body part to fret over: the cankle.