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HRT Increases Incidence and Deaths from Ovarian Cancer

...lso suggests that a woman's risk of ovarian cancer returns to a normal level within a few years of stopping HRT. Ovarian cancer is the fourth most common cancer in women in the UK with almost 7,000 new cases each year. The five year survival rate for the disease is less than 30 per cent which reflects the ...

New AMA Survey Finds Medicare Cuts Will Hurt Seniors

...ressional representative. This week, as Congress returns from its recess, the AMA is publishing a full-page ad in Capitol Hill papers to remind lawmakers of the urgent need for action. The AMA ad features a Medicare patient with high blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar levels with the headline, "Th...

CMPMedica Adds Oncology Search Engine to SearchMedica.com

...ching on the term melanoma on Google, for example, returns more than 10,000,000 results, most of which are geared toward consumers. The same search on SearchMedica Oncology nets fewer than 75,000 results from credible sources of reliable medical information. Results are organized into categories that help on...

Stress of Deployment Increases Risk of Child Abuse, Neglect in Military Families, UNC Study Shows

...indings indicate to us that both departures to and returns from operational deployment impose stresses on military families and likely increase the rate of child maltreatment. State records showed that the majority of substantiated child abuse and neglect that occurred in military families was perpetrated...

Ways to Stop Organ Damage When Blood Flow Is Cut Off

...olved. However, more damage occurs when the blood returns to the organ. Sherry Fleming, assistant professor of biology at Kansas State University, thinks she knows why and is working to find therapeutic ways to prevent this damage. Fleming has received various funding for her research, including, most rec...

Weizmann Researchers Developed Control Switch for Protein Activity

...or when it is removed from the system, the protein returns to its natural activity level. As reported recently in the journal Nature Methods, the first stage of the method consists of preparing a set of genetically engineered proteins (called a library in scientific language) with the amino acid segment in...

Neoprene Sleeve in Anterior Cruciate Ligament Surgery

...roves knee stability and function when the patient returns to sport after surgery and rehabilitation, explains Dr. Birmingham. Others believe that the additional support provided by a brace is not necessary. To address this uncertainty, Dr. Birmingham and colleagues studied 150 athletes preparing to return ...

Britneys Confession - 'I'm Not a Virgin'

...as brought up - you cook for your kids." Spears returns after a gap of almost 18 months said she now realizes "I need my single time to learn to be self-loving". "I know it sounds cliche and cheesy, but I really believe that if it's meant to be, it's meant to be," she added. Spears is linked to the I...

A new century of Alzheimer's disease research

...r developing Alzheimer’s disease (AD). If the test returns a worrisome result -- too many sticky brain proteins that might begin to gum up memory and thought in 10 to 15 years -- a person could be offered an aspirin-like pill to keep those proteins in check. That is the future a visionary team of researche...

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