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2 hrs ago | Richmond Times-Dispatch

Breast Cancer: New Recommendations Reflect Poorly

Mammography screening is one of the major health care advances of the past 40 years.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Breast Cancer, Opinion

10 hrs ago | Newswise

Protein from Pregnancy Hormone May Prevent Breast Cancer

Researchers have found that hormones produced during pregnancy induce a protein that directly inhibits the growth of breast cancer.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Breast Cancer, Albany Medical College

18 hrs ago | The Arizona Daily Star

Limit someone else's health care - just not mine

The uproar over the on-again, off-again guidelines on when women should have mammograms is proof of the blindingly obvious: Health-care reform that actually controls costs a ' rather than just pretending to do so a ' would be virtually impossible to achieve.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Breast Cancer, Prostate Cancer, Opinion

23 hrs ago | New York Times

Experts Say Swine Flu Mutations Do Not Warrant New Alarm

The World Health Organization tried this week to dampen fears about mutations seen in the swine flu virus in several countries, noting that both mutations had been found in very few people.

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Related Topix: H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health, Medicine, Influenza, Duke University

Fri Nov 27, 2009

MediLexicon

Will Vaccines Change The Face Of Cancer Treatment?

Main Category: Cancer / Oncology Also Included In: Immune System / Vaccines Article Date: 25 Nov 2009 The H1N1 vaccine has spurred media interest in vaccines, as well as predictions of vaccines for a host of new diseases.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Oncology

Jacksonsun.com

Couple achieve dream through surrogate parent

MEMPHIS - It was their last chance for a baby with her eyes. His chin. Her nose.

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Related Topix: Family, Parenting, Medicine, Health, Cervical Cancer, Cordova, TN

ClipSyndicate

New Technology Helps Cancer Treatment

Some new technology is making the treatment process for cancer patients a little easier.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Video

St. Petersburg Times

Cancer screening debate points to the political power of the breast

Don't mess with the breast. That's the clear message that has emerged from the uproar over a medical panel's recommendation last week that American women don't need as many mammograms as they're getting.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, US Politics, US News, Breast Cancer, Lung Cancer, Women's Health

Thu Nov 26, 2009

The Post Chronicle

Cancer Drug Preserves Insulin Cells In Diabetes

Rituxan, a drug used to treat cancer and rheumatoid arthritis, may help slow the development of newly discovered type 1 or juvenile diabetes, researchers reported on Wednesday.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Diabetes, Health, Insulin (generic), Humulin, Novolin, Medication, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Lymphoma

WAFB-TV Baton Rouge

Long-Term Problems Linked to Testicular Cancer Chemo

Neurological side effects are among the potential problems faced by long-term survivors of testicular cancer who were treated with cisplatin-based chemotherapy, a new study has found.

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Related Topix: Health, Testicular Cancer

EurekAlert!

A coating for life

Tel Aviv University's new biodegradable fibers advance stent technology and brain surgery, then disappear Stents that keep weakened and flabby arteries from collapsing have been true life-savers. But after six months, those stents are no longer needed -- once the arteries are strengthened, they become unnecessary.

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Related Topix: Israel, World News, Medicine, Health

BioSpace

Gene Increases Effectiveness Of Drugs Used To Fight Cancer And Allows ...

Researchers at the University of Granada, Spain, have found a suicide gene, called 'gene E', which leads to the death of tumour cells derived from breast, lung and colon cancer, and prevents their growth.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Spain, World News

Wed Nov 25, 2009

ClipSyndicate

Verdict Unsealed In Prempro-Cancer Case

Juries in Philadelphia have now returned two huge verdicts against Pfizer, which owns the companies that manufactured the hormone replacement therapies.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Video

Medical News Today

NICE To Publish Final Guidance On Topotecan For The Treatment Of...

Main Category: Lung Cancer Also Included In: Colorectal Cancer Article Date: 25 Nov 2009 - 4:00 PST NICE will be making two announcements on cancer treatments this week.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Lung Cancer, Colorectal Health

Kansas City InfoZine

Nutrition Wise: Winter Squashes, Fresh V. Frozen Berries, Coenzyme Q10

Almost all winter squash is an all-star source of beta-carotene and its antioxidant carotenoid "cousins." It's also a good source of vitamin C, potassium and dietary fiber, all with about 75 calories in a cup of cooked squash cubes.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Life, Food, Nutrition, Fruits

This is Dorset

Fears for Dorset County Hospital breast cancer unit

FEARS that the breast cancer unit will be moved from Dorset County Hospital have sparked protest plans.

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Related Topix: Health, Medicine, Breast Cancer, Dorset County, England, United Kingdom

The Victoria Star

Province's decision to cover cancer drug applauded

Fredericton resident Andrew Goodridge says the provincial government's decision to cover the expensive cancer drug Avastin is great news, even if it took longer than he expected.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Canada, Colorectal Health,

PhysOrg Weblog

Gene increases effectiveness of drugs used to fight cancer and allows reduction in dosage

This image shows the effect of gene therapy combined with cytotoxic agents in E spheroids derived from breast cancer cell line MCF-7. A. Control; B. Doxorubicin 10nm, C. Paclitaxel 10nm, D. Docetaxel 10nm, combined with gene E. Credit: University of Granada Researchers at the University of Granada, Spain, have found a suicide gene, called 'gene E', ...

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Breast Cancer, Doxorubicin (generic), Adriamycin, Doxil, Medication, Spain, World News, Colorectal Health, Colon Cancer

Tue Nov 24, 2009

ClipSyndicate

Ind. family claims drug gave mom cancer

A Richmond Indiana family is taking Pfizer Pharmaceuticals to court. The family says the menopause drug, Prempro gave their mother breast cancer which then led to her death in 2005.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Health, Richmond, IN, Menopause, Video

WOWK

W.Va. Doctors, Cancer Survivors Dislike New Mammogram Guidelines

One week ago, a government task force released a report saying women in their 40s should forgo screening mammograms, waiting until age 50.

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Related Topix: Health, Breast Cancer, West Virginia, West Virginia Government

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