This month's issue of Gastroenterology noted a significant increase in the development of rectal cancer after radiation for prostate cancer with no effect in the remainder of the colon.

Curing gastrinoma or appropriately inhibiting gastric acid hypersecretion in patients Zollinger-Ellison syndrome prevents death and favors long-term survival, shows a follow-up study in the latest Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology.

The combination of age and gender provides a discriminant power for patients with uncomplicated dyspepsia and the age threshold for endoscopy should be lowered in males to decrease the risk of missing cancers, finds April's issue of the American Journal

Black women are less likely than whites to get counseling for BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene mutations screening. The mutations are linked to increased breast cancer risk.

A vigorous-intensity exercise program has many benefits for older people. But curing high blood pressure doesn't seem to be one of them.

An AARP report shows 195 brand-name prescription drugs widely used by older people rose in price by 7.1%, on average, in 2004.

Last week's call by the United Nations Population Fund to governments to increase spending on reproductive health may prove to be hard for Kenya to implement. Kenya has no budgetary allocation for reproductive health.