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Your
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9, November 20, 2001
Sparing
the Womb
Although
hysterectomies are still standard treatment for severe fibroid
tumours, many doctors and patients have been looking for
alternatives. We may have one.... a treatment that could
spare the womb, if only government could spare the money.
Vaccines
Between
talk of mass smallpox vaccinations, and the arrival of flu
season, vaccines are in the news. Vaccines such as those
for polio, smallpox and diptheria have saved millions of
lives worldwide. Still, a small but vocal part of the population
remains skeptical and leery of vaccines.
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Medicine
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Today
the word cancer invokes feelings of dread, but it
comes from the Greek word KARKINOS, meaning crab.
Ancient physicians who took out cancers thought
the swollen veins surrounding them resembled the
legs of a crab.
But
what goes wrong in cancer? How does the crab-like
growth begin and why? Here's Dr. Paul Caldwell
on how cancer
works.
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Next Week's Your Health
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November
27
Can
Prayer Heal?
Those
who believe prayer heals got a boost from a recent study.
It showed women undergoing in vitro fertilization had higher
rates of pregnancy when groups of strangers anonymously
prayed for them. That won't be enough to convince
the skeptics, but cancer survivor Judy Milli isn't one of
them.
Full
Body Scans
Dozens
of people in Vancouver have forked out almost a thousand
dollars each to get a three-dimensional look at their insides.
It's called a "full-body scan", and it's done
with a million-dollar x-ray machine called a CT scan.
The problem is, their doctors didn't order these tests,
and they may be medically unnecessary.
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