Prostate News Archive
30-Jul-2006
Obesity, blood glucose tied to enlarged prostate (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
BPH, or benign prostate hyperplasia, is a common condition in older men, but the risk of developing the condition seems to be increased by obesity and high blood sugar levels, researchers report. HealthMark Multimedia Wins Silver HeSCA Award for Recurrent Prostate Cancer CD-ROM (PR Web)
Washington, DC, July 18, 2006? HealthMark Multimedia has been awarded a Silver Award in the 2006 Health and Science Communications Association (HeSCA) Media Festival. HealthMark was recognized for its interactive, patient-friendly CD-ROM, Recurrent prostate Cancer: Your Decision Notebook®, developed for men recently diagnosed with recurrent prostate cancer. (PRWEB Jul 28, 2006) Trackback URI: Researchers Uncover How Prostate Cancer Cells Defy Death (Science Daily)
New findings about how prostate cancer cells are able to resist hormone treatment and defy death may lead to more effective drug treatments, according to researchers from Wake Forest University School of Medicine and colleagues. Fruit juice may slow prostate cancer (Moorpark Acorn)
Drinking an eight-ounce glass of pomegranate juice daily increased by nearly four times the period during which PSA levels in men treated for prostate cancer remained stable, a three year UCLA study has found. Obesity, blood glucose tied to enlarged prostate (Reuters via Yahoo!7 Health)
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - BPH, or benign prostate hyperplasia, is a common condition in older men, but the risk of developing the condition seems to be increased by obesity and high blood sugar levels, researchers report. Treatment for colon, prostate cancers covered under new law (WCAX 3)
Under the Colon and Prostate Cancer Treatment Act, those people who earn too much to qualify for Medicaid yet too little to afford health insurance may now have their treatment covered through Medicaid.About 20 percent of people the state screens for colon cancer fall into this group.Additionally, the law will allow expedited enrollment into Medicaid for those who are eligible for the health Treatment for colon, prostate cancers covered under new law (WHEC-TV-10)
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Governor Pataki today signed legislation that will help uninsured people diagnosed with prostate and colon cancers get treatment Under the Colon and Prostate Cancer Treatment Act, those people who earn too much to qualify for Medicaid yet too little to afford health insurance may now have their treatment covered through Medicaid. Birch Bark: Prostate Cancer Treatment? (WebMD)
The bark of the white birch tree contains a compound that might help fight prostate cancer. Treatment for colon, prostate cancers covered under new law (WRGB)
Under the Colon and Prostate Cancer Treatment Act, those people who earn too much to qualify for Medicaid yet too little to afford health insurance may now have their treatment covered through Medicaid. Next Pharmaceuticals supplement helps manage prostate cancer (Pharmaceutical Business Review)
University of Texas researchers have discovered that Next Pharmaceuticals pain and inflammation supplement Nexrutine can help prevent the growth of prostate cancer cells.
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