Posts tagged Cancer

• Why Doesn't The FDA Follow Untested Drugs?

  Wayne Parsons | October 26, 2009 1:51 PM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  A report from the General Accounting Office (GAO) questions why the FDA has allowed drugs for cancer and other diseases to stay on the market even when follow-up studies showed they didn't extend...

• Parasite protein linked to cancer

  Wayne Parsons | October 11, 2009 8:02 PM | 5 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  Cholangiocarcinoma is a deadly cancer of the bile ducts. When it is diagnosed, the doctor usually says that there is nothing that can be done: no treatment, no cure, nothing. This the cancer that...

• The Potential Impact of Human Papillomavirus Vaccination on Hawaii Women

  Wayne Parsons | August 18, 2009 3:56 AM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  My preference for cancer is to start with what we know. Knowing something is not hearing something or reading something. It is understanding. Here are the facts about the effect of HPV vaccination...

• Coffee Drinking May Reduce Risk Of Endometrial Cancer In Women

  Wayne Parsons | July 17, 2009 4:55 PM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  The International Journal of Cancer has reported that drinking coffee may decrease the risk of a woman getting endometrial cancer. In a population-based study cohort study the Division of...

• New Study Of Danish Women Connects Hormone Therapy And Increased Risk Of Ovarian Cancer

  Wayne Parsons | July 17, 2009 4:04 PM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) reports an important study regarding womens' health on the connection between Hormone therapy and ovarian cancer. The research measured the...

• Toxic Air Pollutants Assessed By The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

  Wayne Parsons | July 04, 2009 5:22 PM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Toxic Substances
  

  The Environmental Protection Agency may be shaking off the dust of inaction during 8 years of Bush/Chaney rule and looking out for our environment again. Air pollution is a major health problem in...

• Natural Product From The Hydrangea Plant Offers Hope to People With Cancer, Multiple Sclerosis,and Other Autoimmune Diseases

  Wayne Parsons | June 11, 2009 4:23 AM | 2 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  New Lead for Autoimmune Disease Posted by SR in News, tags: auto-immune, lead identification, natural product Do you like Hydrangeas? They are beautiful flowering plants and now medical...

• Cancer Patients Rally in New York to Reform Law To Allow More Time to File Malpractice Suits

  Wayne Parsons | June 04, 2009 11:59 PM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Medical Malpractice
  

  In a story by T.J. RAPHAEL in The Legislative Gazette she reports that a group of cancer patients, their families and a coalition of health care and consumer advocates came to Albany, New York on...

• PESTICIDE ALERT: Pancreatic Cancer Caused By Pesticides - what to do and Where to go if you are Diagnosed

  Wayne Parsons | May 31, 2009 11:11 AM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Toxic Substances
  

  In a Beyond Pesticides story on May 28, 2009 the link between pancreatic cancer and two common herbicides was reported. Pancreatic cancer, gallbladder cancer and bile duct cancer...

• Formaldehyde shown to raise cancer risk in workers

  Wayne Parsons | May 18, 2009 4:32 PM | 0 CommentsHonolulu, HI Category: Toxic Substances
  

  The Journal of the National Cancer Institute reports that they have found a continuing “possible link” between formaldehyde exposure and death from cancers of the blood and lymphatic...