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In a clinical trial that included nearly 80,000 women, those who received ovarian cancer screening did not have a reduced risk of death from ovarian cancer compared to women who received usual care, but did have an increase in invasive medical procedures and associated harms as a result of being screened, according to a study [...]
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Rowan T. Chlebowski, M.D., Ph.D., a principal investigator at the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute (LA BioMed), provided his assessment of the seeming contradictions between a previous Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) study and a new abstract to be presented June 4 at the 2011 American Society of Clinical Oncology. The abstract reports [...]
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The CDC is warning clinicians to be on the lookout for a rare strain of E coli in travelers. Tomatoes, cucumbers, and lettuce remain prime suspects as a source of the potentially deadly infection. Medscape Medical News
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The Michigan pathologist believed the terminally ill should be able to choose a physician-hastened death; he was convicted of second-degree murder after helping at least 130 individuals commit suicide. Medscape Medical News
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Concerns over potential cross-contamination of nonpenicillin drug products with penicillin have resulted in a nationwide recall of multiple repackaged products. Medscape Medical News
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The FDA has warned that thermography (the use of infrared cameras to measure heat and blood flow near the body’s surface) is not a substitute for mammography. Medscape Medical News
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(MedPage Today) — Four Americans are suspected of being infected with the new deadly strain of Escherichia coli that is rapidly spreading across Europe.
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(MedPage Today) — Jack Kevorkian, the physician who blatantly acted on his belief in the appropriateness of physician-assisted suicide, has died of complications related to a long-standing kidney ailment at Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Mich.
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WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) — Medical device makers got a boost Thursday when Republican lawmakers took their side against the FDA, agreeing that the agency’s device approval process is unpredictable and slow.
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