In this story…..
*Preventing Memory Loss
*Prostate Cancer
*Two Arm Transplant
*HIV Infections Up
A new study shows that eating salmon or tuna and other fatty fish may actually help prevent memory loss and reduce the risk of stroke. According to researchers, eating just one serving per week of baked or broiled fish high in omega-3 fatty acids leads to a reduced risk of silent brain lesions.
Doctors should stop routinely screening men over 75 for prostate cancer because the benefits of testing people in that age group are “small to none,” a task force says. Most prostate tumors grow slowly and rarely become life-threatening. Treatment can produce side effects including bladder control and bowel problems, the group says.
A team of 40 doctors, nurses and assistants in Germany spent about 15 hours on July 25 and 26 attaching two arms to a farmer who had lost both his arms in an accident six years ago. On Friday, the surgeons announced it was the world’s first ever double-arm transplant.
The AIDS virus infects about 40 percent more people in the U.S. than the government has been estimating, federal health officials say. While previous estimates had put new infections at about 40,000 annually, new calculations based on better detection and statistical methods up the rate to about 55,000 per year.