Looking for the dog photos I talked about on Northwest Cable News? Most of them are in the January '06 archive.

I'm outta here for a few days after working mornings for the past two weeks so have a very safe and happy Labor Day weekend and I'll see you mid-next week. If I take some super duper amazing picture or I wind up with a lot of free time on my hands.. I'll post, but it's not likely because hey... would you if you were on vacation??

Response time:

Fred writes about the prostate cancer study I covered: "...all of the men were Caucasian. Now, I can imagine that Olmstead County Minnesota is a fairly white locale, but you can understand how exclusionary that sounds. I'm Caucasian but I find it hard to believe that the prostates of black or Asian men wouldn't react to a drug treatment any differently than mine...

It's really interesting because race does make a difference in a lot of diseases. When it comes to prostate cancer, African American men die from it more than any other ethnicity.

http://www.cdc.gov/CANCER/prostate/prostate.htm

Other groups have lower rates. And if race plays a role in the way certain diseases act in the body.. the drugs you use to treat the diseases may work a little differently too. It's not a one-size-fits-all approach and I've even been told by researchers that one of the bigger problems in drug research is the fact that most drugs are tested on men, and side-effects/doseages end up getting worked out for women after they have gone through the ringer using a drug that worked fine on males.

At any rate, what a great question/comment Fred.. thanks!!

((Last minute addition: Check out this excellent article, too: http://www.post-gazette.com/healthscience/20020507hgene0507p3.asp))

See you later!! Steph sstricklen@kgw.com