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Kerr looked at the usefulness of the test in more than 1,000 Stage 2 colon-cancer patients. At this stage, the cancer has penetrated the colon wall but has not spread beyond the colon into the lymph nodes or nearby tissues. About 90% of Stage 2 patients survive five years beyond the diagnosis. In almost all cases, surgeons remove the cancer first; studies have shown that surgery alone can cure four out of five cases of Stage 2 colon cancer. But how do patients know if they are the outlying fifth case or if they are among the fortunate...
...Johns Hopkins study also found that students taking such pledges were significantly less likely to use condoms or other forms of birth control. The science, then, is clear. Abstinence-only education is useless at best and counterproductive at worst. What’s more, abstinence-only programs tend to spread misinformation and sexist stereotypes. According to a report prepared by the House Committee on Government Reform, abstinence-only curricula have claimed that HIV can be spread through tears, that abortion causes sterility, and that condoms fail to stop HIV transmission in 31 percent of cases. None of these claims...
...Administration says that the budget deficit for the current fiscal year will be 5% higher than previously forecast which will puts the number above $1.8 trillion. The spread between the old number and the new one is $89 billion. The White House figure now matches the estimate of the Congressional Budget Office, an estimate which the Administration had earlier disputed...
...FlyBy starts getting the drunk munchies early, so we slips down to the dining hall to get some grub. HUDS has laid out an impressive spread, with all the necessary standards—cheese and crackers, vegetables and dip, cocktail shrimp—along with some awesome chicken puffs and crab things. Tragically, all the pigs in a blanket are gone by the time FlyBy showed...
...products in response to the relatively high number of swine flu cases in Spain. For Anatoly Gendin, a reporter covering the conference for a Moscow-based culinary magazine, the ban is simply a measure of caution. "It's not always easy to explain the fine details [of the virus' spread] to the whole population," he said. "So they did this to be on the safe side." (See pictures of swine flu hitting Mexico...