Copyright 2000 The Atlanta Constitution
The Atlanta
Journal and Constitution
April 6, 2000, Thursday, Home Edition
SECTION: Features; Pg. 9D
LENGTH: 309 words
HEADLINE:
HEALTH NEWS & NOTES
BYLINE: From our news services
SOURCE: CONSTITUTION
BODY:
Milk linked to prostate cancer? Consuming lots of milk and other dairy
products may modestly raise the risk of prostate cancer. The case is far from
settled, and researchers say they do not recommend that men drastically change
their intake of dairy foods. The findings were based on the Physicians' Health
Study, a landmark Harvard School of Public Health study involving 20,885 male
doctors. Among other habits, they were questioned about their diet. During the
next 10 years, 904 of them developed prostate cancer. The researchers found that
men who consumed at least 2 1/2 servings of dairy food daily were about 30
percent more likely to develop prostate cancer than were those who averaged less
than half a serving a day. Results were presented in San Francisco at a meeting
of the American Association for Cancer Research.
Research to slow
cancer: A technique called antisense technology, which zeros in on a cancer gene
to halt malignancy, seemed to slow deadly skin cancer in some patients, a report
suggests. Testing is still early, and doctors do not know whether the treatment
will pan out. Doctors treated 16 patients with advanced melanoma. The skin
cancer disappeared in one patient; in two others, more than half of the cancer
went away, and three others had lesser responses.
Hearing tests for
newborns? Newborns should receive mandatory hearing tests from hospitals before
they are taken home, a national group said Wednesday as it released its
state-by-state report card on newborn hearing screenings. More
than 12,000 babies are born deaf or with serious hearing loss annually,
according to Hear Us: The National Campaign for Hearing Health (NCHH). Georgia
got a "fair" rating because it has enacted legislation that encourages but does
not force screenings. Georgia screens 21 percent of babies born in the state
annually.
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