University Health Network

LONDON (Reuters) - Adding radiotherapy to hormone drugs for prostate cancer patients significantly improves survival compared with hormone treatment alone, and the combination could save many lives if it were made standard practice, scientists said Thursday.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - There is no convincing evidence that taking high doses of selenium -- a popular dietary supplement -- can prevent cancer, according to a new review.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new study deflates hopes that certain nutritional supplements could stave off prostate cancer, the second most common cancer in men.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A greater percentage of people at high risk for heart disease keep up their exercise and diet programs when they get group telephone counseling, a new study says.

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - A greater percentage of people at high risk for heart disease keep up their exercise and diet programs when they get group telephone counseling, according to a study.

Hoping to boost transplants, scientists try outside-the-body gene therapy to fix donated lungs. Call it a genetic patch job for worn lungs: Canadian researchers took donated lungs deemed too damaged to transplant and repaired them with outside-the-body gene therapy.

Call it a genetic patch job for worn lungs: Canadian researchers took donated lungs deemed too damaged to transplant and repaired them with outside-the-body gene therapy.

Restarting gold production made more than a few shareholders happy Thursday, while an Asian deal boosted a healthcare stock. . Stockhouse Canadian Small and Micro-cap Stock Report for Thursday, October 15, 2009