The facts about colorectal cancer
Colorectal cancer ranks second in leading causes of death from cancer. This cancer affects men and women equally and the risk increases with age. Because early stages of colorectal cancer are usually not accompanied by symptoms, colorectal screenings are important. If everyone age 50 and older had regular screening tests, at least 60 percent of colorectal cancer deaths could be avoided.

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Bedtime ‘accidents’
Parents frequently mark the time when a child stops having “accidents” at night as another milestone, judging the achievement as a mark of maturity. But when a child stops wetting the bed at night can be highly variable, experts say, and has a much wider range of “normal” than, for example, walking or talking.Having accidents at night is very common up until the age of 6, says pediatrician Reyna …

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Natrol Launches New Superfruit Antioxidant Supplements to Support Health and Wellness: Natrol® MaquiBerry, Natrol® …
CHATSWORTH, Calif.—-Natrol, Inc., a premier marketer, manufacturer, and distributor of nationally branded nutritional products, introduces three new nutritional supplements — Natrol® MaquiBerry, Natrol® Resveratrol Diet, and Natrol® Resveratrol Weekend Cleanse — with superfruit antioxidant capacity.

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Devildriver’s Dez Fafara: “I Won’t Tattoo My Penis. I’m Italian, So It’s Huge”
Hammer asks Devildriver some probing questions, and get more than we bargained for: “If you can’t find somewhere to shit, you take a shit in a bag then you throw it out of the bus. It’s a horrendous way to live…” Read the rest!

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Nektar Announces Positive Phase 2 Clinical Data from First Stage of NKTR-102 Study in Women with Platinum-Resistant …
Nektar Therapeutics today announced preliminary progression-free survival data from the first stage of a two-stage Phase 2 clinical study evaluating single-agent treatment with NKTR-102 in women with platinum-resistant ovarian cancer. Â In the first stage of the study, 39 patients were enrolled with platinum-resistant disease and were evaluable for the secondary endpoint of progression-free …

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RWJF awards $480,000 grant to improve clinical care for low-weight babies
Researchers at UC Irvine and the Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science (CDU) will monitor the day-to-day health of low-birth-weight babies and their parents as part of a comprehensive initiative designed to combat chronic illnesses associated with low-weight births.

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The Anger of Exile
By Colm Tóibín The Hakawati by Rabih Alameddine Cockroach by Rawi Hage There is a photograph of Thomas Mann taken in Lübeck, Germany, in 1955, shortly before his death. He is standing with his wife, Katia, outside the family house, the house of Buddenbrooks, or what remained of it. He is staring straight at the camera; the expression on his face bears all the complexity of what has been lost and …

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MicroDose Therapeutx to Present at the 30th Annual Cowen Healthcare Conference on Tuesday, March 9th
MONMOUTH JUNCTION, N.J.—-MicroDose Therapeutx Inc. today announced that it has been invited to give a corporate presentation at Cowen & Company, LLC’s 30th Annual Healthcare Conference being held at the Boston Marriot Copley Place, Boston, MA from Monday March 8th through Thursday, March 11th, 2010.

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Immunohealth 3-D diet scientific weight loss program
LYNDHURST — What if you learned that the foods you think are good for you are actually sabotaging your weight loss goals?

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Good News for Salix
SLXP received good news recently when a FDA committee recommended the approval of Xifaxan for the maintenance of remission of hepatic encephalopathy .

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