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Reuters - Children born "small for gestational age" -- that is, significantly smaller than most babies born after the same number of weeks of pregnancy -- appear to be at increased risk for rapid gains in weight and body fat during adulthood, researchers from Paris, France report.
HealthDay - FRIDAY, Nov. 21 (HealthDay News) -- The cancer-fighting pill Iressa works as well as chemotherapy as a second-line treatment for lung cancer, researchers report.
HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of CenterWatch:

Edie Stark, 84, a retiree who lives in an upscale retirement complex, said she has been hard hit by the meltdown in U.S. financial markets during an interview in Miami November 6, 2008. (Joe Skipper/Reuters)Reuters - Like many other elderly Americans, Edie Stark has been hard hit by the meltdown in U.S. financial markets. She is 84 and has been worried a lot lately about outliving her savings.


AP - Some advanced lung cancer patients already treated with chemotherapy might be able to skip some of the bad side effects of another series of chemo by taking a pill instead, a study suggests. An international study showed patients on Iressa, an expensive, newer targeted treatment, survived about as long as those on another course of chemotherapy.
 
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