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Movember is for jerks
Sydney :: Australia | about 5 hours ago
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Some men in middle-age can get lazy, put all their eggs in one basket of career or family life and not tend to their own garden or their spouse's. If you'd like to save your own life or that of your loved partner, read on. Although warning, warning,...
Tags: study showed, Australia, Sydney, Prostate, Testosterone, Cancer, Screening, Management of prostate cancer, Urology, Prostate cancer, Prostate-specific antigen, Health Medical Pharma
Three-year-old gets new arm bone in medical first at Stanford's Lucile Packard
Palo Alto :: CA :: USA | about 10 hours ago
Credibility He didn't know the other kids, but within minutes he was zig-zagging back and forth across the playground, outrunning the others with the ball clutched to his chest. As he played on a recent afternoon at his older brother's school — Fairmeadow Elementary...
Tags: Mark Blinder, Dr. Lawrence Rinsky, Alla Ostrovskaya, artificial bone, arm bone, Palo Alto, Cancer, Amputation, Bone, Bone tumor, Ewing's sarcoma, Oncology, Sarcoma, Health Medical Pharma
Vail Daily letter: Breast exam saved my life
Moscow :: Russia | about 11 hours ago
Credibility Preventative Services Task Force, which now recommends the start of biennial mammography screening at the age of 50. They also place no value in self-breast exams and even recommend against teaching how to perform them. As I sit here alive today, I can...
Tags: Preventative Services Task Force, breast cancer, exam saved, breast exam, Russia, Moscow, Mammography, Medical imaging, Gynecology, Breast self-examination, Cancer, Oncology, Breast, Health Medical Pharma, Screening, Breast cancer screening, Social Issues
Radiation therapy can boost longevity in rare pancreatic cancer patients
Ann Arbor :: MI :: USA | about 12 hours ago
Credibility PNT is a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that can stay confined to the liver and often cause death from liver damage...Researchers at the departments of radiation oncology and internal medicine, division of hematology/oncology and comprehensive cancer...
Tags: radiation therapy, pancreatic cancer, rare pancreatic, EBRT, Ann Arbor, Medical physics, Radiobiology, Neuroendocrine tumor, Cancer, Oncology, Cancer treatments, Radiation oncology, Health Medical Pharma
Women, doctors leery of new health advice
Hutchinson :: KS :: USA | about 13 hours ago
Credibility 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 14 hours 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 15 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 18 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 18 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 19 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
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