Westar Energy : endorses House Bill 2516 (Bill seeks to sack asbestos measure ; Asbestos)

… law requiring annual training certification by Kansas officials of workers performing asbestos … health risk from diminishing the state's regulatory position on asbestos … ;
Federal law in 1990 set new training requirements for asbestos workers, and …

Doctors must stay vigilant re: asbestos exposure, Australia

Rates of malignant mesothelioma (MM) have levelled off in Australia, but the changing patterns of asbestos-related diseases mean clinicians must be vigilant about taking exposure histories from...

Canadian wrestling icon Bret ‘Hitman’ Hart says he has prostate cancer

… Bret Hart says he has prostate cancer and will undergo surgery “in … myself in my fight against prostate cancer,” Hart said.
He made his …

The Peculiar Brilliance Of Donald Trump's Healthcare Strategy

The Peculiar Brilliance Of Donald Trump's Healthcare Strategy

Oman health: Cigarettes and shisha fuelling lung cancer rise

… Oman. Photo – Jun Estrada
Muscat: Lung cancer, a disease with which 97 …

“Revolution” for cancer treatment

… to help doctors see the prostate and tumours in 3D.
Only a … diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer, the most common cancer in men.
More … from prostate cancer.
“The Percunav gives us a live view of the prostate … could treat prostate cancer by guiding a needle into the cancer to deliver …

Enigma of coexistence of people with Rh+ and Rh- blood groups solved

A new study showed that incidence and morbidity of many diseases and disorders correlate negatively with frequencies of Rh+ heterozygotes (i.e. the carriers of one copy of the gene for Rh positivity and one copy of the gene for Rh negativity) in the population of individual countries. At the same time, the disease burden associated with the same disorders correlated positively with frequency of Rh negative subjects in individual countries. Together with the observed worse health status and higher incidence of many disorders in Rh negative subjects published by the same research team last autumn, this result probably solved 80 years old enigma of coexistence of carriers of two variants of Rhesus gene in the same population.