Posted on May 3rd, 2010 by Health News
A research team led by Mayo Clinic physicians has found that older women with diabetes face a more than doubled risk for some types of colorectal cancer. The findings are being presented at Digestive Disease Week 2010, the annual meeting of the American Gastroenterological Association. Colorectal cancer remains the third-leading cause of cancer deaths [...]
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Posted on May 3rd, 2010 by Health News
Agence France-Presse examines a trend among tobacco firms targeting ads toward women in developing countries: “Advertisements telling smokers they are smarter, more energetic and better lovers than their non-smoking counterparts are a familiar sight across Bangladesh - something unimaginable in most other countries,” the news service writes…
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Posted on May 3rd, 2010 by Health News
“Hundreds of thousands of women in conflict zones around the world have been or are now becoming victims of rape and sexual torture,” reflects Michel Martin, host of NPR’s “Tell Me More,” as she interviewed Margot Wallstrom, U.N. special representative on sexual violence in conflict, in a show examining the U.N.’s “ramped up” campaign to [...]
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Posted on May 3rd, 2010 by Health News
At a Capitol Hill briefing on Wednesday, advocates from Resolve: The National Infertility Association said that the “complex, emotionally riveting issue” of infertility “needs to come out of the shadows — and be fully covered by health insurance,” Washington Times columnist Cheryl Wetzstein writes. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla…
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Posted on May 3rd, 2010 by Health News
The following summarizes selected women’s health-related blog entries. ~ “The Future of the Abortion-Rights Movement,” Newsweek: In response to an article published earlier this month, Newsweek invited several abortion-rights advocates to participate in a two-day e-mail discussion about “the idea that older women are promoting the cause while younger women are uninvolved…
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Posted on May 3rd, 2010 by Health News
The following summarizes selected women’s health related videos. Health Reform’s Benefits for Women: In a new video from the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, actress Julianne Moore explains “what exactly … health reform mean[s] for women…
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Posted on May 3rd, 2010 by Health News
NEW ORLEANS (MedPage Today) — Pay-for-performance measures don’t take into account patient-related complications that could affect outcomes, researchers said here.
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Posted on May 3rd, 2010 by Health News
Results from the VeriStrat biomarker analysis of a multicenter Phase III trial were presented today at the 2nd European Lung Cancer Conference currently being held in Geneva, Switzerland. Results showed that the VeriStrat test identified patients who were likely to have a survival benefit from treatment with erlotinib, a commonly prescribed oral therapy for [...]
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Posted on May 3rd, 2010 by Health News
Tikcro Technologies Ltd. today announced that BioCancell Therapeutics, Inc., concluded the first 18 patient group treated pursuant to a Phase IIb clinical trial of the drug candidate BC-819 for use in superficial bladder cancer. These patients had not responded to conventional treatment.
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Posted on May 3rd, 2010 by Health News
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is advising consumers not to purchase nor consume Vita Breath, a dietary supplement manufactured by American Herbal Lab Inc. of Rosemead, Calif., and marketed at health fairs and on the Internet, because the product may contain hazardous levels of lead.
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