Man cured of prostate cancer after being given testosterone to shock tumors and other top stories.

• Man cured of prostate cancer after being given testosterone to shock tumors

  

  A man has been “cured” of prostate cancer using an experimental therapy that shocks tumours to death with the sex hormone testosterone. The disease was at an advanced stage and had failed to respond to previous treatment. Other seriously ill men taking part in the same trial showed responses that astounded scientists. Their tumours were seen to shrink and progress of the disease was halted in several patients. Levels of Prostate Specific Antigen – a blood marker used to monitor prostate cancer ..

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• Doctor Calls Michelle Obama 'Monkey Face,' But Says She's Not Racist

  

  A Colorado doctor has been ordered to stop seeing patients and is being fired from her medical school teaching job after calling first lady Michelle Obama “monkey face” on Facebook and defending herself as “still not racist.”  Dr. Michelle Herren, a white pediatric anesthesiologist at Denver Health Medical Center and a faculty member at University of Colorado School of Medicine, made the comment after another Facebook user called Obama eloquent, The Denver Post reported. Herren responded with an..

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• Funeral directors anxious over Texas fetal remains rules

  

  With Texas set to implement rules requiring the burial or cremation of fetal remains, it's not just health care providers who are anxious about the recently adopted requirements. Funeral directors in the state are joining the chorus of medical professionals and reproductive rights activists who have raised concerns about the rules. Though it hasn't taken a formal position on the requirements, the Texas Funeral Directors Association says it’s concerned about how they’ll affect the families they ..

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• The Life-Changing Magic of Mushrooms

  

  The doom hung like an anvil over her head. In 2012, a few years after Carol Vincent was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, she was waiting to see whether her cancer would progress enough to require chemotherapy or radiation. The disease had already done a number on her, inflating lymph nodes on her chin, collar bones, and groin. She battled her symptoms while running her own marketing business. To top it all off, she was going through menopause.“Life is just pointless stress, and then you di..

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• Martin Shkreli's not mad teens made his drug for about $2 a dose, you are

  

  Remember Martin Shkreli? Pharma troll and fan of both Donald Trump and the Wu-Tang Clan? He just got schooled by a bunch of teens, but he's not mad about it. Not at all. You are.Shkreli became notorious in 2015 after he acquired the rights to Daraprim, a treatment for a parasitic infection that affects people with low immune symptoms like pregnant women and HIV sufferers. His troll achievement was unlocked when he raised the price of the drug from $13.50 to $750 per pill to huge public outcry.S..

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• Understanding of Parkinson's 'transformed'

  

  Image copyright Thinkstock Image caption One of the main symptoms of Parkinson's is an uncontrolled tremor Scientists in California say they have transformed understanding of Parkinson's disease. Their animal experiments, published in the journal Cell, suggest the brain disorder may be caused by bacteria living in the gut. The findings could eventually lead to new ways of treating the disease, such as drugs to kill gut bugs or probiotics.Experts said ..

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• LA County reports first flu death of the season

  

  California’s first flu-related death of this season occurred in Los Angeles County, prompting state health officials on Thursday to urge residents to get vaccinated.“As this unfortunate case illustrates, the flu can be deadly and causes thousands of fatalities each year in the United States,” said state public health officer Dr. Karen Smith. “Fortunately, people can get vaccinated to help keep them from getting sick and spreading the flu to others.”The man who died was under the age of 65 and ..

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