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submitted by Lisa for team Breast cancer info 57 weeks 4 days 10 hours 3 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A drug used to treat people infected with the AIDS virus has shown promise as a possible future weapon against cancer, U.S. researchers said on Friday.
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submitted by Lisa for team Breast cancer info 2 weeks 12 hours 35 minutes ago
Three weeks of radiation treatment work just as well as the usual course of five weeks or more for women with early-stage breast cancers, Canadian researchers have reported, after monitoring a large group of patients for 12 years.
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submitted by Julia Leigh 26 weeks 6 days 10 hours 55 minutes ago
Alex Koehne had a love for life, and always wanted to help people. So when his parents were told that their 15-year-old son was dying of bacterial meningitis, the couple didn't hesitate in donating his organs to desperately ill transplant recipients.
"I immediately said, `Let's do it',"...(more)
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Americans are struggling to pay medical bills and are accumulating medical debt at an increasing rate, according to a survey released today. "A perfect storm of negative economic trends is battering working families across the United States," said the survey by the Commonwealth Fund, a...(more)
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submitted by Miles Walker for team Breast cancer info 53 weeks 23 hours 43 minutes ago
For decades, alcohol has been the preventive drug of choice for many people, for better or for worse - after all, it offers some protection from heart attacks and may keep strokes, dementia and diabetes at bay.
And if alcohol happens to be a lot of fun,...(more)
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submitted by Lisa 75 weeks 3 days 11 hours 14 minutes ago
Reducing levels of a protein in the brain can prevent in mice some of the most common symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, including memory loss, researchers at the Gladstone Institute in San Francisco reported Thursday in the journal Science.
The findings offer a new clue to Alzheimer's --...(more)
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submitted by Grace for team Breast cancer info 36 weeks 5 days 8 hours 32 minutes ago
When it comes to medical fees, $12 may not seem much, but it is enough to deter many women from getting a mammogram, a new study finds.
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An experimental test that snags lung cancer cells from a blood sample could give doctors real-time feedback on the most effective therapy, researchers reported Wednesday.
Changes in the number of circulating cancer cells correlated with the effectiveness of a patient's treatment, according to the report in the...(more)
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submitted by Robby for team staff news 7 weeks 5 days 12 hours 15 minutes ago
Drug makers call the rapid deployment of a vaccine against cervical cancer education, but their critics call it marketing.
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submitted by Elizabeth 46 weeks 1 day 9 hours 33 minutes ago
President Bush and Congress have spent much of autumn locked in a bitter fight over expanding a popular children's health insurance program, and neither side has been willing to blink.
But for states such as California, the effects of the stalemate are hitting home.
Unless there's an infusion...(more)
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submitted by Miles Walker for team Breast cancer info 72 weeks 23 hours 6 minutes ago
Reuters - A genetic mutation that raises the risk of breast cancer is found in up to 60 percent of U.S. women, making it the first truly common breast cancer susceptibility gene, researchers reported on Sunday.
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submitted by Grace 9 weeks 4 days 9 hours 31 minutes ago
Hospital emergency departments, typically the medical providers of last resort, are becoming the only option for insured as well as uninsured people who are unable to get care elsewhere, leading to a record rise in emergency room visits over the past decade, a federal government report...(more)
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