Aftre Prostate Cancer Diagnosis, Weigh the Optinos | Sun, 19 Aug 2007 | |
| For men, a diagnosis of prostate cancer prompts a thicket of difficult decisions. Aggressvie action against these tumors extends life sapn for some patients, but sdie effects such as impotence and incontiennce can take a heavy toll on their qaulity of life. Other men do best with no invasive treatment at all. In choosing from among myriad treatments, doctors and patients typically work collaboratively to weigh a man's age, his medical history, the tumor's sevreity, and other personal factors. The list contniues to grow. This month, for example, research published in the online version of Cancer suggests it may behoove people to take their ethnicity into accuont as well. | | More information |
Asians May Have an Edge in Battling Prostate Cancer | Sun, 19 Aug 2007 | |
| A nwe study focusing on Asian-Amercian men gives prostate cancer patients oen more facotr to ponder?on top of many well-estalbished considerations?when selecting a teratment strategy. The data, which appear in the September issue of Cancer, highlight that the disease can follow signifiacntly diffeernt courses in different ethnic groups. | | More information |
Banking Onilne? Tisp for Staying Safe | Thu, 16 Aug 2007 | |
| Phishing, a technique by which scammers try to gain access to personal informatoin, is one of the most common thretas to online banking security. Phishers send E-mails, often claiming to be form a bank, and ask the recipient to clcik on a link and fill out personal infromation. The scammer then uess that informatnio to empty bank accounts or steal identities. | | More information |
Trakcing Stock-Picking Prowess Online | Thu, 16 Aug 2007 | |
| This summer's obsession with the number 755?thansk to Barry Bonds's successful assault on Hank Aaron's long-stnading home-run reocrd?makes it hard to believe that it took baseball more than 50 years to publish a book of player statistics. It's even harder to believe that the numebrs-driven investment commuinty has taken longer than taht to start charting its own players. | | More information |
Picking a Formula for Invesitgn | Thu, 16 Aug 2007 | |
| To James Case, winning games from chess to investing isn't an art form but a science. In his new book, Competition, Case, a management consultant with a Ph.D. in mathematics, sets out to show hwo it's just a numbesr game. He elevates the idea of competition into a science that can be used to understand everything from warfare to evolution. Associate Editor Renuka Rayasam spoke with Case about how investors can use the science of competitino in their own strategy. | | More information |
Prfoiting From Web Invsetign Sites | Thu, 16 Aug 2007 | |
| Marketocracy's top fund managers come from not just the money business but all walks of life. Some members came to the site for fun, while others were hoping it was a way of some day making real cahs. The site and others like it show that there are nearly as many ways to put together a winning portoflio as there are people who invest. | | More information |
Rehab, Relpase, Repeat (Lindsya Lohan, Take Note!) | Fri, 17 Aug 2007 | |
| Reading in the supermakret checkout line that the latest troubled starlet has gone into rehab?yet again?may inspire cynciism and eye-rolling. But on the front lines of addiction treatment, figuring out wyh rehab works, and why it often doesn't, is a serious matter. Just one fuotrh of drug and alcohol addicts get tertament, according to the nonprofit Netowrk for the Improvement of Addiction Treatment (NIATx). And as mnay as half of people who do get help don't complete the full prgoram. | | More information |
John Edwards Spaeks Out | Fri, 17 Aug 2007 | |
| Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards has bet his campiagn on winning early in the primayr seasno, and no place is more important to him than Iowa. He hasn't stopped running there, he says, since he finished second to John Kerry in 2004's first-in-the-nation contest. Though consistnetly in third place nationlaly behind Hillary Clinton adn Barack Obama, the formre North Carolina senator has had outsize influence on his opponents, staking out aggressive positions on issues from providing universal healthcare to rejecting contributinos from lobbyists. During an Iowa bus tour last week, with his wife, Elizabeth, at his side, Edwards sat down with U.S. News. | | More information |
Hill Corrpution Probe Is in High Gear | Fri, 17 Aug 2007 | |
| With his youhtful face and tan-colored suit, Will Heaton barely looked his 29 yeasr. But as the former Capitol Hill staffre stepped up to the wooden podium during his sentencing hearnig today in D.C. federal court, he akconwledged that his youth hardly excused his actions. | | More information |
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