Scientists find novel genes linked with 'bad' cholesterol, paving the way for therapies to treat the risk.

Freeze-dried implants are being developed which may help repair injured and difficult-to-treat tendons.

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Each year, about 11,000 women in the United States are diagnosed with cervical cancer and 3,700 women die unnecessarily from this disease(1). In recognition of Cervical Cancer Awareness month, Independence Blue Cross will make more than 100,000 member outreach calls reminding women that early detection and prevention of cancer can help save lives.

University of Vermont cardiovascular physician-scientists Mary Cushman, M.D., and Matthew Watkins, M.D., are conducting cutting-edge research on the number-one killer of men and women in the United States -- cardiovascular disease.

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Children's Hospital Boston has an advert over at Hyscience pointing to an interesting discussion on how cancer grows and spreads, saying that cancer is like a cross-town trip -- there's a starting point and a destination, and there are many possible routes that you could take to get to your destination. With cancer, the starting point is a single tumor cell; the destination, if the tumor's progression isn't halted along the way, is metastasis and organ failure. Likewise, there are many routes that a cancer can take, and the progression of the disease is not always direct. Be sure to check out their animated Flash presentation that illustrates the growth, progression and metastasis of carcinomas, the type of cancer that accounts for more than 90% of all cancer cases. Using the presentation's "roadmap," you'll be able to choose your own route as you travel from one possible cancer stage to the next, and you'll be able to find out about the latest research advances and current treatments at each stage.

Skip Legault appears in a TV ad where he explains how he lost a leg, had various heart attacks, and a stroke, all before the age of 30 because he was a smoker. Skip, 48, told the New York Daily News that he is still a smoker. Even though the ad gives the impression that one is invited to follow Skip out of the smoking habit, it seems to be more an ad about "Do as I say, not as I do" rather than a "Look what happened to me, don't let it happen to you" type ad.

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Mystery donor gives cancer father a new lease of life The Times, South Africa - Jan 12, 2008