Posted on April 24th, 2009 by Health News
In older breast cancer survivors, the number of lymph nodes removed during surgery and the presence of cancer in the lymph nodes were the two factors most directly linked to the development of lymphedema, swelling of the arm and hand, according to a study from the Medical College of Wisconsin’s Center for Patient Care and [...]
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Diffusion weighted MR can accurately identify benign from malignant pelvic lymph nodes in patients with gynecologic malignancy, according to a study performed at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA. Diffusion weighted imaging is a noninvasive test that uses an MRI sequence sensitized to the motion of water molecules within tissue. “Conventional imaging [...]
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Image guided drainage of tubo ovarian abscesses help women avoid surgery, according to a study performed at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA. Tubo ovarian abscesses (TOAs) are an infected collection of pus, involving a patient’s fallopian tube(s) or ovaries. They can occur in patients with complicated cases of pelvic inflammatory disease, appendicitis or diverticulitis. [...]
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A new MR imaging sequence, T2-weighted BLADE, used to image the female pelvis improves image quality and helps radiologists make a more accurate diagnosis, according to a study performed at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD. A total of 26 patients were imaged using both fast spin echo [...]
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Although the Obama administration’s announcement of draft guidelines for federal funding of embryonic stem cell research “is a significant improvement” over former President George W. Bush’s more restrictive policy, the new
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Moira Gaul, Family Research Council’s Director of Women’s and Reproductive Health, released the following statement regarding the Obama Administration’s decision to sell the morning-after-pill to 17-year-olds without a prescription. “The Obama Administration is permitting a judge to make a scientific decision as to the safety of the over-the-counter sale [...]
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In recent years, a series of highly publicized reports have warned of increases in breast cancer and other health problems in postmenopausal women who take hormone replacement therapy (HRT). But a closer look at the data suggests that those reports were often “distorted, oversimplified, or wrong,” according to a paper in the March/April issue of [...]
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Women who have breastfed have a lower risk of developing high blood pressure, diabetes and cardiovascular diseases during menopause, according to a study scheduled to be published in the May issue of Obstetrics & Gynecology, the New York Times reports.
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Zambia’s health minister, Kapembwa Simbao, recently said that the provision of services to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission remains a challenge in the country, despite the government’s efforts to expand such services in recent years, the Lusaka Times reports.
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In her first congressional testimony since her confirmation hearing, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday fielded questions from two antiabortion-rights lawmakers regarding the Obama administration’s international family planning policies, the
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