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Women, doctors leery of new health advice
Hutchinson :: KS :: USA | 13 minutes ago
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The advice from the United States Preventative Services Task Force moved mammograms up a decade, to age 50, and suggested they should be done at two-year intervals through age 74. "There is convincing evidence that screening with film mammography reduces...
Tags: breast cancer, Dr. Michael Schekall, Preventive Services Task Force, breast self, Dr. P.J. Hutsey, annual mammogram, aged 40s, Dr. Fadi Estephan, Hutchinson, Medical imaging, Breast, Breast self-examination, Cancer, Mastectomy, Oncology, Mammography, Health Medical Pharma
Vitamin supplements complicate cancer treatments
Sydney :: Australia | about 1 hour ago
Credibility Complementary medicine is a huge market in Australia, with nearly three quarters of adults taking some form of vitamin or supplement every year. But research has found that some common complementary medicines are capable of nasty interactions with cancer...
Tags: complementary medicines, cancer treatments, Australia, Sydney, New Thought movement, Cancer, Methotrexate, Chemotherapy, Experimental cancer treatment, Oncology, Alternative medicine, Health Medical Pharma
Is mammography a flawed technology?
Honolulu :: HI :: USA | about 2 hours ago
Credibility In the 1990s, Christine Norton would show up at the annual Twin Cities Women's Expo for three days in a row to hand out instruction cards on breast self-exams. She was such a fervent believer in mammograms that she begged friends to get them every year.
Tags: breast cancers, task force, Christine Norton, routine mammogram, Honolulu, Medical tests, Mammography, Medical imaging, Cancer, Overdiagnosis, Oncology, Breast cancer, Medical terms, Health Medical Pharma
Breast cancer researchers at Sausalito forum defend mammogram advice
Novato :: CA :: USA | about 5 hours ago
Credibility Dr. Robert Hiatt, a University of California at San Francisco professor who heads the Bay Area Breast Cancer and Environment Research Center, said, "They're finding that there are many more negative consequences of false positive examinations than were...
Tags: breast cancers, Dr. Linda Birnbaum, Dr. Robert Hiatt, Marin, cancers research, Jeanne Rizzo, Novato, Triple-negative breast cancer, Cancer, Telomere, Hormone replacement therapy, Risk factors of breast cancer, Breast cancer, Oncology, Mammography, Health Medical Pharma
Cleveland Clinic, Johns Hopkins medical talks to go head to head
West Palm Beach :: FL :: USA | about 5 hours ago
Credibility Three Cleveland Clinic Florida heart experts will participate in the American Heart Association's Cleveland Clinic Goes Red event, which will be held at the Cleveland Clinic Florida Health & Wellness Center at CityPlace in West Palm Beach. The event also...
Tags: prostate cancer, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Dr. Darryl Miller, Dr. Patrick Walsh, Cleveland Clinic Florida, Dr. Walsh, Cleveland Clinic Goes Red, heart disease, cardiovascular disease, West Palm Beach, Prostate, Cancer, Vitamin E, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Screening, Urology, Prostate-specific antigen, Health Medical Pharma
County Commissioner seeking cancer treatment
Albertville :: AL :: USA | about 6 hours ago
Credibility Updated 11 minutes ago Marshall County Commission Chairman Doug Fleming is seeking treatments related to two types of cancer...While doctors were treating him for the sarcoma tumor they also found another type of colon cancer that had metastasized in...
Tags: Doug Fleming, Albertville, Occupational safety and health, Pathology, Colorectal cancer, Metastasis, Soft tissue sarcoma, Oncology, Gastrointestinal cancer, Cancer, Health Medical Pharma
Eat and drink your way to a healthy colon?
Amsterdam :: Netherlands | about 8 hours ago
Credibility Eating fruits and vegetables, and drinking tea and red wine may offer overweight men and normal weight women some protection from colon and rectal cancers, hint study findings from the Netherlands. Plant-based foods contain flavonoids, compounds thought...
Tags: normal weight, weight women, overweight men, rectal cancers, colorectal cancers, Colinda C.J.M. Simons, Netherlands, Amsterdam, Gastrointestinal cancer, Nutrients, Colorectal cancer, Catechin, Cancer, Nutrition, Monoamine oxidase inhibitors, Oncology, Health Medical Pharma, Hospitality Recreation
The Health-Care Wars Have Just Begun
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | about 8 hours ago
Credibility My 84-year-old mother was full of venomous indignation at dinner last night over the great mammogram take-back. Bureaucrats, in her view, will happily kill women to save money. My colleague, Caroline Miller, Newser’s editor in chief, took umbrage in this...
Tags: Los Angeles, Medical imaging, Prostate cancer, Cancer, Prostate, Oncology, Urology, Mammography, Health Medical Pharma
Making Medical Decisions Lacking Perfect Science
Washington :: WA :: USA | about 8 hours ago
Credibility The idea of evidence-based medicine is that the decisions made between doctors and patients should be based on scientific studies. Yet people don't always want to do what the data say to do — whether it be about screening, or treatment.
Tags: Washington, Screening, Oncology, Cervical cancer, Cancer, Breast cancer, Medical tests, Papillomavirus, Prevention, Health Medical Pharma
Beauty Products Expose You To 515 Chemicals Per Day!
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | about 8 hours ago
Credibility But I had no idea that, on a day-to-day basis, I could possibly be exposing my body to 515 chemicals...According to Bionsen, a natural deodorant company, women have up to 515 different chemicals in their body on any given day. Now, of course, this varies...
Tags: Los Angeles, Phenols, Breast cancer, Deodorant, Cosmetics, Cancer, Preservatives, Personal hygiene products, Paraben, Health Medical Pharma
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