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(Ivanhoe Newswire)  Now that the FDA has declared meat and milk from cloned animals is safe to eat, a number of companies are producing cloned animals for the livestock industry.  Some are already marketing semen from clones.

A poll done by Consumers Union found that 89 percent of consumers want their food labeled to indicate whether it’s from cloned animals.   But should access to DNA from every unique clone be made public?  Patrick Cunningham of Dublin’s Trinity College and Chief Scientific Advisor to the Government of Ireland thinks so. 

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Reduce puffy eyes and by allergies, sinus conditions, premenstral syndrome or even excess salt intake, as salt also causes water retention. Most people have puffy eyes when they

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(Ivanhoe Newswire) — Carbon dioxide gets a lot flack. It’s a culprit responsible for the growing hole in our ozone layer, leading to skin cancer, climate change and global warming. But CO2 has a surprising new role: reducing wrinkles and clearing up acne scars!

Trials of a new carbon dioxide-based fractional laser are underway at two medical centers in the United States. The laser — recently approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration — is designed to treat facial wrinkles and acne scarring, alleviating dark pigmentation, and other conditions that the centers are investigating before making the laser widely available.

Washington — Physicians trying to keep up with the latest journal articles have their work cut out for them in more ways than one. First, there is the massive number of articles to read. Second, the possibility of publication bias must be considered. Both pose significant challenges when weighing the risks and benefits of therapeutic treatments.

“Evidence shows that even if physicians were to do their darndest to keep up with all of the literature … and even if they were just keeping up with the quality journals, they would still have to read 19 articles a day, 365 days a year. They just can’t do it,” said Kay Dickersin, PhD, professor of epidemiology and director of the Center for Clinical Trials at Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore.

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(Ivanhoe Newswire) Currently, pathology reports and PSA levels are all that doctors have to predictor whether a man’s prostate cancer will spread or come back. New research done at the Oregon Health & Science University Cancer Institute has uncovered a biomarker that can significantly improve on what’s available.

Dr. Joshua Alumakal, MD conducted a study on men with localized prostate caner examining DNA and a gene modification process called methylation in which tumor suppressing genes like CDH13 are turned off. With the tumor-suppressing gene turned off, there is nothing to put the brakes on cell growth and spread. 

Georgia physicians are fighting what they say is an illegal attempt by the state Blues to shut some doctors out of the health plan’s HMO network in violation of the state’s so-called any-willing-provider law.

Most states have such laws, which generally prohibit managed care entities from excluding doctors from their panels as long as the physicians meet the plan’s criteria and are willing to accept its terms. But doctors say BlueCross BlueShield of Georgia’s refusal to include some of Northeast Georgia Cancer Care LLC’s oncologists in its HMO plan is putting patient care at stake.

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(Ivanhoe Newswire) — Before you take your next cigarette puff, beware! If you are one of the majority of people with a common genetic defect, you are likely to suffer from an early heart attack.

“We’ve all heard the stories: Someone’s great-uncle has smoked three packs of cigarettes since he was 14, and now, at the age of 88, he’s living a fine, healthy life,” Arthur Moss, M.D., director of the Heart Research Follow-up Program at the University of Rochester Medical Center, was quoted as saying. Now, scientists say they have figured out why some smokers are luckier than others: they lack a defect of the gene CETP (cholesteryl ester transfer protein) found in 50 percent to 70 percent of the population.

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Preservatives and artificial fragrances are the most common causes of sensitive skin, skin reactions and allergies. Other irritants include petrochemicals, synthetic colours

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