| An Elephant never forgets good nutrition
Ed Bauman gives a lecture on how you and your loved ones can avoid cancer through nutrition and medicinal herbs from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday at Elephant Pharm in Berkeley. Dr. Elson Haas teaches the ins and outs of theDetox Diet for the New Year from 7 to 8 p.m. Jan. 23. Learn how to develop a home yoga practice with Jeffrey Levin, certified yoga teacher from 11 a.m. to noon, Jan. 26. All classes are free. At 1607 Shattuck Ave. Call 510-549-9200 or visit http://www.elephantpharm.com. Alta Bates Summit Medical Center The Alta Bates Summit Medical Center hosts a mind-body oriented workshop for cancer survivors and those touched by a cancer diagnosis. Workshops meet from 1:15 to 2:30 p.m. the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month and is a series of four classes.
'Blade runner' loses Beijing hopes
The runner finished second in an able-bodied race in Rome in 2007, then came last and was subsequently disqualified for stepping out of his lane in a race in Sheffield, England later the same year. The IAAF said that after the Italian race, evidence suggested an athlete with prosthetic limbs performed differently than an able-bodied athlete, and it agreed with Pistorius that more tests were needed. The IAAF does not prohibit prosthetic limbs in able-bodied sports, but it does ban technical aids. Pistorius is reported to be considering an appeal against the verdict. Athletics South Africa said it would immediately apply the decision which does does not affect Pistorius' eligibility for Paralympic events. "It's unfortunate because he could have boosted team athletics at the Olympics at Beijing because he had the potential to qualify," said Leonard Chuene, president of Athletics South Africa.
Hope for new cancer therapies
The team is absolutely on the mark with this work. It's enormously promising,'' said Erik Thompson, a breast cancer scientist with St Vincent's Institute and the University of Melbourne. That's so, he said, as the group - led by Joan Massague, head of the cancer biology and genetics program at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York - have revealed key steps breast cancer cells take when they spread to the lungs and bone in a process called metastasis. "Metastasis is what's killing people with cancer,'' said Associate Professor Thompson. "The pathways which allow tumour cells to spread through the body and stay there, resistant to chemotheraphy, are exactly the pathways we have to understand and conquer,'' claimed Professor Thompson. Melbourne-based oncologist and breast cancer scientist Geoff Lindeman agreed, but cautioned that the findings must be proven in clinical trials.
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