Health News: [cancer]

Sponsored Link Special Offer - Free Trial of Blockbuster.com Rent Movies from Blockbuster.com. Delivered Direct To Your Mailbox. Click here to start today. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday, October 24, 2012 10:57 AM PDT Your Health News Alert for [cancer] matched the following stories: Reuters via Yahoo! Canada News, Wed, 24 Oct 2012 08:33 AM PDT Pfizer lung cancer drug gets conditional EU approval http://ca.news.yahoo.com/pfizer-lung-cancer-drug-gets-conditional-eu-approval-153313830--finance.html (Reuters) - European health regulators granted conditional approval to Pfizer Inc's Xalkori to treat advanced non-small cell lung cancer in patients with a specific genetic mutation, the company said on Wednesday. The approval had been expected after the European Medicines Agency in July recommended the drug for conditional authorization, which means Pfizer must still submit further data from a ... Associated Press via Yahoo! News, Wed, 24 Oct 2012 07:53 AM PDT Answers sought as $3B Texas cancer agency meets http://news.yahoo.com/answers-sought-3b-texas-cancer-agency-meets-071922070--finance.html Texas put $3 billion on the table to prove it was serious about fighting cancer, but it will take more than money to convince scientists that's still the case. Reuters via Yahoo! Canada News, Wed, 24 Oct 2012 05:39 AM PDT Acupuncture may ease dry mouth after cancer http://ca.news.yahoo.com/acupuncture-may-ease-dry-mouth-cancer-123903391.html NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People with chronic dry mouth related to cancer treatment reported some improvement in symptoms like sticky saliva and dry lips after eight weeks of group acupuncture, in a new study from the UK. It's not clear how much of that benefit could have been a result of patients' expectations that acupuncture would help them or the effect of a therapeutic relationship with ... Reuters via Yahoo! Maktoob News, Wed, 24 Oct 2012 02:45 AM PDT Analysis: Creative drug pricing flourishes in hard-up Europe http://en-maktoob.news.yahoo.com/analysis-creative-drug-pricing-flourishes-hard-europe-094545608--finance.html LONDON (Reuters) - Fifty percent off the first three months of cancer medicine. Buy a course of eye treatment and get extra injections free. A money-back guarantee if your erectile dysfunction pills don't work. "Special offers" on prescription medicines are all the rage in state-backed healthcare systems across Europe as governments struggle to balance the books. ... ANI via Yahoo! India News, Wed, 24 Oct 2012 01:03 AM PDT Doubts cast over moderate alcohol consumption link to breast cancer risk http://in.news.yahoo.com/doubts-cast-over-moderate-alcohol-consumption-breast-cancer-080350033.html Washington, October 24 (ANI): A review paper by two scientists at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism in the USA has described the epidemiologic and basic scientific evidence linking alcohol consumption to the risk of breast cancer. Good Morning America via Yahoo! News, Tue, 23 Oct 2012 14:43 PM PDT Men Ignore Early Signs of Breast Cancer http://gma.yahoo.com/1-1-000-men-battles-breast-cancer-214324187--abc-news-health.html Disease Kills One American Man Daily, Researchers Say Reuters via Yahoo! Canada News, Tue, 23 Oct 2012 13:58 PM PDT Green tea drinkers show lower cancer risks http://ca.news.yahoo.com/green-tea-drinkers-show-lower-cancer-risks-205817303.html NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Older women who regularly drink green tea may have slightly lower risks of colon, stomach and throat cancers than women who make no time for tea, a large study suggests. Researchers found that of more than 69,000 Chinese women followed for a decade, those who drank green tea at least three times a week were 14 percent less likely to develop a cancer of the digestive ... See more health stories that match your keyword at: http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news/?fr=yalerts-health&c=&p=cancer+%2bcat%3ahealth&ei=utf-8 Visit Yahoo! Health: http://health.yahoo.com/ You received this email because you subscribed to Yahoo! Alerts. Use http://us.rd.yahoo.com/alerts/b/email/unsubscribe/*http://alerts.yahoo.com/unsubscribe.php?id=gcftpjMuNLM2MQlLJn8QN1aVk1DPijaVAcL6xzxaNodMfn6mFcp6yrr3tp_Io47HHWCoetm3_rFGTXF5evO5HExOczb4r5lcI4aT to unsubscribe from this alert. To change your communications preferences for other Yahoo! business lines, please visit your Marketing Preferences: http://login.yahoo.com/config/login_verify2?.done=http://subscribe.yahoo.com/showaccount . To learn more about Yahoo!'s use of personal information, please read our privacy policy at http://privacy.yahoo.com/privacy/us/ . Yahoo! is located at 701 First Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94089.