Tennis star Cliff Richey — the number one ranked professional tennis player in the United States in 1970 who won 45 tournament titles over a 26-year career — sees tennis having a "resurgence" in the next five years, rebounding from loss of television profile relative to the PGA golf tour.
He attributed decline

Categories: Men’s Health, Women’s Health, Policy, Doctors, Aging, Cancer, Public Health & Prevention
All those reflexive Pap smears, mammograms, and prostate cancer screening tests are controversial enough these days.
But, one thing’s pretty clear: They don’t really help patients already dying of other cancers.
That’s the conclusion of a report just out from the specialists at Memorial Sloan-Kettering […]

Researchers in the US and Denmark have made a breakthrough in image-guided targeting of prostate tumors during arc radiotherapy treatments. In research partially supported by Varian Medical Systems (NYSE: VAR), physicists at Stanford University (California, USA) and Aarhus University Hospital (Aarhus, Denmark) have devised a method for ‘real-time’ tracking of the prostate

Research conducted by Dr. Jay Kolls, Professor and Chair of Genetics at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, and colleagues, has found that vitamin D may be an effective therapeutic agent to treat or prevent allergy to a common mold that can complicate asthma and frequently affects patients with Cystic Fibrosis. The work was scheduled […]

By stimulating certain areas of the brain, scientists can alleviate the effects of disorders such as depression or Parkinson’s disease. That’s the good news. But because controlling that stimulation currently lacks precision, over-stimulation is a serious concern - losing some of its therapeutic benefits for the patient over time.
Now a Tel Aviv University team, part […]