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Washington — To treat or not to treat has long been a puzzle in prostate cancer, with studies lending support to both options. Now comes a new, large study of older men with early-stage cancer that points to “watchful waiting” rather than treatment as the better option for this population.

The study, presented Feb. 14 at the 2008 Genitourinary Cancers Symposium in San Francisco, found that a conservative approach that included monitoring for increasing levels of prostate-specific antigen and other signs of the cancer’s growth was a successful strategy for the majority of the older men studied who had stage I or stage II prostate cancer.

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Washington — Wounds may result from a gunshot, diabetes, a burn or a bedsore, but they all signal the body’s healing mechanism to proceed through a series of complex steps. Four new centers have been funded to develop innovative therapies to both ease and speed this process.

The National Institute of General Medical Sciences, which is part of the National Institutes of Health, recently awarded $13 million over four years to an interdisciplinary group of 36 investigators at eight universities and medical centers who are studying diverse approaches to wound healing.

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… for using this approach to develop therapies to prevent deadly food allergy … samples of people with cat allergies and in mice bred to be allergic to cats. …

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Washington — Diabetes by itself is hard enough to manage effectively, but try adding another one, two or three chronic diseases, and the complexities escalate.

Plus, ineffective management of some of these other diseases may be standing in the way of good diabetes control. Researchers in a recent study recommended physicians consider the “whole patient” when devising treatments and advise patients that their chronic conditions may, in fact, be related.

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