MD Anderson researchers compared 841 pancreatic cancer patients with 754 healthy people and found those overweight between 14 and 19 were 60 percent more likely to develop the cancer, while obesity in the 20s and 30s doubled or tripled the risk.
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Miscellaneous
How green is your wedding?
Mireya Navarro's book Green Wedding sets out how to shrink a wedding's carbon footprint. With more than 2.5 million U.S. weddings a year costing $72 billion, she urges local, seasonal, pesticide-free and meatless menus, e-vites instead of paper, and shorter guest travel.
Drug
What I need to know about Liver Transplantation
Noting that Steve Jobs received a liver transplant in Tennessee, the piece reprints a U.S. government primer on the procedure: what the liver does, warning signs such as jaundice, fatigue and fluid buildup, and why cirrhosis is the most common reason adults need a new liver.
Environment
Cutting carbons to clean up the climate
A National Research Council report estimates that using solar and wind more efficiently could cut more than 800 million metric tons of U.S. electricity-sector emissions by 2030. Reaching even 20 percent wind power would take over 100,000 turbines, $100 billion in investment and 140,000 workers.
Drug
Two studies show promise for lung cancer treatments
Two mouse studies point toward possible lung cancer treatments: a Korean team's inhalable gene-therapy spray left mice with fewer and smaller tumors than untreated animals, and an Italian team doubled survival by targeting nicotine receptors with the compound a-CbT.
Miscellaneous
AIDS Foundation to hold protest against porn industry
Los Angeles County health officials say 22 porn performers have tested positive for HIV in five years. The AIDS Healthcare Foundation will rally June 15 outside Larry Flynt's Hustler store in West Hollywood, pressing California legislators to require condoms in adult films.
Government
Obama Announces Medicare, Medicaid Savings Proposals
President Obama used his weekly address to press for action on health care, proposing Medicare and Medicaid changes he says would cut costs by an estimated $313 billion, and noting America spends nearly 50 percent more per person on health care than any other country.
Lifestyle
Majority of cancer patients use antioxidants to fight cancer
Among 663 Long Island women with breast cancer, 60.5 percent used antioxidants such as vitamins C and E, beta-carotene and selenium during conventional treatment, and 69.3 percent of those exceeded a multivitamin's dose. Whether antioxidants blunt radiation and chemotherapy remains contested.
Government
Judge orders Cannabis Dispenser to Prison
Despite Attorney General Eric Holder's 2009 remarks on federal medical marijuana enforcement, federal raids on California dispensaries continued, and a judge sentenced dispensary operator Charles Lynch to a year and a day. A US attorney says Lynch broke state and federal law.
Government
FDA Panel Says Yes to Seroquel, Zyprexa and Geodon for Kids
The FDA's Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee recommended approving Seroquel, Zyprexa and Geodon for schizophrenia and bipolar mania in children and adolescents. The hearings also aired risks: seven or eight extra heartbeats a minute in children, cataracts and a prolonged QT interval.
Government
FTC Challenges Biotech Industry’s Plea for 12-Year Protection from Generics
The Federal Trade Commission has challenged the biotech industry's case for 12 to 14 years of protection before generic competition. The FTC accepts biotech drugs cost more to make and estimates generic versions would discount only about 30 percent, against 90 percent for synthetics.
Drug
FDA warns consumers not to use skin products made by Clarcon (PR)
Clarcon Biological Chemistry Laboratory is voluntarily recalling skin sanitizers and protectants sold under brands including Skin Shield and Citrushield after FDA testing found high levels of bacteria. The agency told consumers to throw away any Clarcon product.
Government
FDA requires boxed warning for all botulinum toxin products (PR)
The agency acted on reports that the toxin can spread from the injection site and cause botulism-like symptoms, including muscle weakness and trouble breathing or swallowing. Most reports involved children treated off-label for cerebral palsy spasticity.
Lifestyle
Married Seniors More Likely to Seek Preventive Care
A survey of just over 13,000 people older than 65 found those living with a spouse more likely to get flu shots, colorectal screening, checkups and dental care than seniors living alone or with an adult child. Researchers could not explain the gap.
Drug
Acetaminophen can cause liver damage
An FDA advisory committee recommended stronger warning labels and changes to dosage limits for acetaminophen, calling it the leading cause of acute liver failure from 1998 through 2003 and noting that small amounts over the four-gram daily limit may injure the liver.
Disease
Researchers Seek to Disable Cancer Cells
Harvard's Stephen Elledge describes cancer cells as sick cells that depend on particular genes to survive, and reports one, STK33, that keeps them from self-destructing. He says a drug would only need a 50 to 70 percent knockdown rate to work.
Drug
Vaccination alters the immune system
A Cancer Causes Control study of 387 non-Hodgkin lymphoma patients and 535 controls in Nebraska tied influenza vaccination to a 53 percent higher NHL risk, while polio and smallpox vaccination tracked with lower risk. Tetanus and tuberculosis shots showed no association.
Miscellaneous
Kansas abortion doctor shot and killed
A suspect is in custody after Dr. George Tiller, a late-term abortion provider, was shot in the lobby of his Wichita church. Witnesses gave police his car's license number. Tiller's clinic was bombed in 1986 and he was shot and wounded in 1993.
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