Poor Health Practices Plague Rajasthan Tribal Women
...areas. Around 80 percent mothers do not give first breast milk to newly born infants. Their traditional belief is that first breast milk or colostrum causes indigestion problems in infants. Instead, the tribal people prefer to give ...Cost-effective Treatments for Breast Cancer
New adjuvant treatments for breast cancer are cost-effective at improving survival, a...for the management of adjuvant therapies for early breast cancer. In a Canadian economic study of estrogen receptor positive breast cancers, switching from ...New Adjuvant Breast Cancer Treatments Found Cost-effective
...tudies have found that new adjuvant treatments for breast cancer are cost-effective at improving survival. ...for the management of adjuvant therapies for early breast cancer. In a Canadian economic study of estrogen receptor positive breast cancers, switching from ...Ultrasound Better Than Biopsy for Breast Examination
Researchers have reported that breast masses shown on ultrasound that are diagnosed as p...stimates that 212,920 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in the United States this year. Early detection through screening is the best way to combat c...Revealing the Secrets of Gut Ecosystem
...s in 14 healthy, full-term human infants that were breast fed. Most of the bacteria that live within humans ...ted a paucity of those bacteria, although all were breast fed. The finding that most babies in the study did not acquire significant numbers of Bifidobacter...Estrogen Therapy Protects Against Fading Mental Powers: Study
...rogen and progestin could raise a women's risk for breast cancer, stroke and heart disease, but more recent research suggests it may have a role to play in women's health if it is taken early and for a limited period. The study released Monday appears in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences...Aspartame Probe Call Rejected by FDA
...ct that aspartame can cause leukemia, lymphoma and breast cancer in rats. Morando Soffritti of the Ramazzini Foundation in Bologna, Italy, and colleagues tested aspartame in rats, which they allowed to live until they died naturally. "This is the second study by the same lab showing that aspartame causes ...Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy is Linked With Increase in Breast Cancer Rates
...tute, the incidence of some early stage metastatic breast cancers is increasing, but this finding is likely..., Md., found that the increase in some early stage breast cancers corresponded to greater use of biopsies of sentinel lymph nodesthe primary lymph node to whi...Indian-born Australian Scientist Wins Award for Stem Cell Research
..., Parkinson's disease, spinal cord injury and even breast cancer." Hailing from Moga in Ferozepur district, Sidhu completed his doctorate from Punjab Agricultural University in Ludhiana. He did his post-doctoral work in reproductive physiology, working on humans and variety of mammal species, at Washingt...Novel Investigational Drug May Help American Women Suffering from Breast Pain
...atment option for pain associated with fibrocystic breast disease, is in progress nationwide. The severely debilitating symptoms such as breast pain, affects about 26 million women in the United States alone but is often left untreated leaving ...Cancer Deaths of Rural Men on the High
... most common cancer among Australians, followed by breast cancer, melanoma and lung cancer. Between 1993 and 2003, the cancers which increased the most in number were thyroid cancer (106 per cent), myeloma (44 per cent), melanoma (41 per cent), kidney cancer (39 per cent) and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (36 per...Women With Atypia Nearly Eight Times More Likely to Develop Breast Cancer
...en with at least three sites of cellular atypia in breast tissue are nearly eight times more likely than average women to develop breast cancer. Several earlier studies have shown that atypical hyperplasia (also called atypia) in brea...Bayer and Onyx Submit Supplemental New Drug Application for Nexavar to Treat Liver Cancer
...types, including melanoma, non-small cell lung and breast cancer."...Non Smoking Workers Absorb the Carcinogen Immediately
..., secondhand smoke can increase the risk of having breast cancer and of giving birth prematurely or having low-birth weight babies. In their analysis of the legal and liability issues raised by workplace smoking hazardsLegal Risks to Employers Allowing Smoking in the WorkplaceAshe and her colleagues said ...Breast Cancer Outcomes in the Family
Research suggests that the chances of developing breast cancer are to some extent inherited,if a woman succumbs to breast cancer her daughters or sisters are over 60 percent more likely to die within five years if they de...Loss of Antenna Leads to Cancer in Insects
...roduce too much of the Aurora A protein, including breast and colorectal cancers and leukemia. In 2006, excessive production of HEF1 (also known as NEDD9) was found to drive metastasis in over a third of human melanomas, while HEF1 signaling also contributes to the aggressiveness of some brain cancers (glio...Scientists Identify New Possible 'biomarker' for Pancreatic Cancer
... year the association between the RON receptor and breast cancer, say that further studies is needed before blockers for the RON receptors may be used for human testing....X-ray Mammography Aids in Breast Cancer Detection
...s X-ray mammography for screening will detect more breast cancers than mammography alone, for women at high risk of breast cancer . But the number of false positives indicating a problem where none exists will rise signifi...Art in Hospitals to Enhance Patient Care
...even obesity, heart disease, testicular cancer and breast cancer. This radical plan has aroused a lot of controversy. There has been wide spread criticism of NHS trusts in the UK who have spent tens of thousands of pounds on art installations at a time when they are considering cutting services because of......80 or older - have the greatest risk of developing breast cancer according to new research published today....of women wrongly believed that age does not affect breast cancer risk. The strongest risk factor for breast cancer - after gender -is age. The older the wom...