| New nanomedicine research for prostate cancer
Bander, director of urological oncology research and the Bernard and Josephine Chaus Professor of Urological Oncology at Weill Cornell Medical College and a urologist at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical College. Several years ago, Dr. Bander's team developed the first antibodies to the external domain of prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA). PSMA is now widely considered the best prostate cancer cell surface target known. The lead antibody, J591, has been a focus of clinical trials at Weill Cornell, involving the Departments of Urology, Medicine (hematology-oncology) and Radiology (nuclear medicine), as well as at several other institutions. These trials have entered almost 300 patients and have demonstrated sensitive and specific cancer targeting in 97 percent of prostate cancer patients as well as anti-tumor activity.
Rudy Giuliani uses the NHS as ‘political football’ to give Hilary ...
Rudy Giuliani, the front-runner for the 2008 Republican nomination, was accused last night of smearing the NHS to attack Democratic plans for universal healthcare in America. Mr Giuliani launched a radio advertising campaign saying that the proposals from Democrats such as Hillary Clinton smacked of European-style socialism that would lower standards in the US. "I had prostate cancer five, six years ago," the former New York mayor said. "My chance of surviving prostate cancer – and, thank God, I was cured of it – in the United States? 82 per cent. My chance of surviving prostate cancer in England? Only 44 per cent under socialised medicine." His advert prompted Alan Johnson, the Health Secretary, to make a rare intervention into US politics as he pleaded with Mr Giuliani to stop kicking the NHS.
Take control of your health
You can't control genetics or the guy on the bus who sneezes on you, but many factors that affect your health are well within your control. Here are some simple and surprising ways to improve your and your family's health in 2008. Get more vitamin D One of the hottest topics in medicine these days is vitamin D, says Dr. Kenneth Cooper, the father of aerobics and the founder of the Cooper Aerobics Center in Dallas. Insufficient levels of vitamin D was named as a key factor in osteoporosis in a July article in the New England Journal of Medicine. "More women will die from complications of osteoporosis of the hip than from breast cancer, and you can't just take calcium and expect it to prevent osteoporosis unless you have sufficient vitamin D," Cooper says. Insufficient vitamin D is clearly linked to colon cancer, and may be linked to prostate cancer, ovarian cancer and breast cancer, Cooper says.
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