Melissa Arnette “Missy” Elliott, who is 39 years old, has been battling Graves’ disease for the past three years. She said she realized she had a problem while driving, when she lost control of her muscles. Elliott went on to suffer other symptoms, including hair loss and mood swings…
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How much can a woman lower her risk of breast cancer by losing weight, drinking less, or exercising more? A study published online June 24 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute describes a new model to estimate the impact of these lifestyle changes on absolute breast cancer risk, suggesting risk reductions that could [...]
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Education, referrals, support and other interventions by community health workers improve rates of screening mammography in the United States - especially in medical and urban settings and among women whose race and ethnicity is similar to that of the community health workers serving them…
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In one of the first studies to examine the reasons for the rising number of women delivering their babies by cesarean section, Yale School of Medicine researchers found that while half of the increase was attributable to a rise in repeat cesarean delivery in women with a prior cesarean birth, an equal proportion was due [...]
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The downward trend seen in recent years continues, but racial disparities (mostly driven by poverty) remain — and obesity is a growing concern. Medscape Medical News
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The key findings of the IARC working group on the carcinogenicity of radiofrequency electromagnetic fields are summarized in a new report. Medscape Medical News
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Soluble amyloid precursor protein beta may be clinically useful and superior to amyloid beta-42 in the early and differential diagnosis of incipient Alzheimer’s, researchers report. Medscape Medical News
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(MedPage Today) — A proposal to ban circumcision of infant males in San Francisco, scheduled for a city-wide vote in November, may be pulled off the ballot if a lawsuit filed by physicians, Jewish groups, and a Muslim family is successful.
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WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) — Major healthcare groups and the AARP have lined up in opposition to a congressional proposal for across-the-board spending cuts, commissioning a major study to outline the impact of the cuts.
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WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) — Data on which doctors are prescribing which drugs is speech that is protected by the First Amendment, and pharmaceutical companies have every right to buy that information and use it to target their marketing efforts, the Supreme Court ruled today.
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