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Obesity Fuels Breast Ca by Altering Tissue Microenvironment Structural differences in obese tissue may make it more likely to promote tumor development, according to a new Science Translational Medicine(2015 Aug 19.
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More Men With Breast Cancer Opting for Double Mastectomies Getty Images(PRAIRIE VILLAGE, Kan.) -- Seven years after finding a lump in his chest, Bret Miller was diagnosed with stage 1 breast cancer at age 24.
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More men undergoing surgery for breast cancer Though women still vastly outnumber men in terms of being diagnosed (men account for only about one percent of all cases in the United States) there have recently been some changes in trends concerning the disease.
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More Men With Breast Cancer Opting for Double Mastectomies Seven years after finding a lump in his chest, Bret Miller was diagnosed with stage 1 breast cancer at age 24. Multiple doctors had brushed off his concerns through the years, telling him it was likely a calcium deposit.
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Rise Seen in Preventive Mastectomy for Male Breast Cancer Patients A new report indicates a growing number of men with breast cancer are opting for preventive double mastectomies, despite a lack of research showing the surgery increases survival rates.
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Insurer Says Clients on Daily Pill Have Stayed HIV-Free Demonstrating that taking a daily pill to prevent H.I.V. infection can work in the real world, San Francisco's largest private health insurer announced Wednesday that not one of its 657 clients receiving the drug had become infected over a period of ...
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50 quarantined after Ebola death in Sierra Leone Fifty people have been placed in quarantine in northern Sierra Leone after the death of a middle-aged woman from the Ebola virus, in a setback for the country's bid to gain Ebola-free status.
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PrEP 'Care Continuum' IDs Barriers to Effective HIV Prevention Many steps are required between first identifying men who have sex with men (MSM) who are at high risk of HIV and ultimately ensuring they are prescribed and adhere to Truvada (tenofovir/emtricitabine) as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), Healio reports.
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200 to Be Vaccinated in Sierra Leone After Ebola Death The World Health Organization is to begin vaccinating about 200 people in Sierra Leone who came into contact with a woman who died from Ebola on Saturday.
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A lot of US children are being diagnosed with ADHD improperly A lot of children are being diagnosed with ADHD in the US - but improperly. One in five are diagnosed based on information provided by family members alone, in violation of the guidelines set by the American Academy of Pediatrics, according to a ...
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CVS says its cigarette move affected other stores' retail sales as well A year after CVS, one of the nation's largest drugstore chains, decided to stop selling cigarettes, it said its decision has led to a decrease in cigarette sales across all retailers in 13 states.
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A year later, CVS says stopping tobacco sales made a big difference The decision to stop tobacco sales at all of its drugstores a year ago caused people to buy 1% fewer packs of cigarettes in 13 states, CVS Health says in a new study out Thursday.
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HIV patient tells of fears of disclosure after details leak A man says he fears having to tell friends and family he is HIV positive after he was among 780 patients whose details were leaked by a health clinic.
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Adult smoking levels hit historic low The number of Americans smoking hit a historic low of 15.2 percent during the first quarter, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said this week.
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Cigarette smoking plunges in US Fewer people in America are puffing cigarettes but the reasons smoking rates dropped so dramatically during the first quarter of 2015 remain a matter of speculation.
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Sexual health clinic accidentally publishes HIV status of 800 patients The 56 Dean Street sexual health clinic in London mistakenly leaked the HIV statuses of 780 patients in a newsletter sent Tuesday.
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Binge Drinking Talk Should Be Had With Children Before They Ever Take A Sip Time goes by fast. In the blink of an eye, your children have already grown into adults. (Photo : Don LaVange). When should you talk to your children about alcohol?
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Omega-3 supplements may not lower cognitive decline A new study has found that fish oil supplements known as omega-3 will not reduce mental decline. The study findings are different from many observational studies carried out in the past that states that the supplements are beneficial.
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UPDATE 1-Gilead combo HIV pill matches Truvada efficacy but safer in trial (Adds chemical differences of combo pills, shared side effects, updates stock price). By Ransdell Pierson. Sept 2 (Reuters) - Gilead Sciences Inc said on Wednesday its experimental fixed-dose combination treatment for HIV proved as effective in a late ...
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The Middle-Age Spread May Hasten the Onset of Alzheimer's About 5 million people in the U.S. are living with Alzheimer's, a number that is expected to more than double by 2050, barring a medical breakthrough, as the population ages.
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Obesity Associated with Earlier Alzheimer's Disease Onset Gaining weight in midlife is unhealthy for a number of reasons, including increasing the risk of high blood pressure, diabetes and heart disease.
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8 now dead from Legionnaires' disease in western Illinois In this Monday Aug. 31, 2015 photo, Erica Jeffries, director of the Illinois Department of Veterans Affairs, center, stops to talk to Rosemary Smith, left, and Helen Uhm, in Markword Infirmary at the Illinois Veterans Home in Quincy, Ill.
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Death toll in Legionnaires' outbreak in Illinois rises to eight CHICAGO An outbreak of Legionnaires' disease has killed an eighth person in Quincy, Illinois, and sickened 41, mostly at a veterans home, health and veterans affairs officials said on Wednesday.
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Those who get less sleep are more likely to get a cold Even though just about everyone knows the importance of a good night's sleep, many people pride themselves on being able to get by on just a few hours of shut-eye.
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If Fish Is Brain Food, Can Fish Oil Pills Boost Our Brains, Too? NITEROI, BRAZIL - AUGUST 5: A worker prepares fresh sardine fillets at the Mercado São Pedro, the St. Peter's fresh fish market, on August 5, 2009 in Niteroi in Brazil.
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Acupuncture Linked to Reduced Blood Pressure in Small Study Blood pressure levels declined slightly in a small study of patients treated 30 minutes a week with electroacupuncture. The findings were published in the August issue of Medical Acupuncture.
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Less Than Seven Hours of Sleep Quadruples Your Chance of Getting a Cold Despite the warm weather, cold and flu season is upon us. And for many of us this means seriously upping our hand-washing game, packing sanitizer everywhere, and side-eyeing anyone on public transportation with a cough.
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Porn site offers student scholarship IT'S one of the most popular pornography sites in the world - and now it is making an offer to students that many would find hard to refuse.
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California inmate dies while awaiting execution SAN QUENTIN, Calif. (AP) - A 69-year-old inmate has died while awaiting execution at San Quentin State Prison for a 1989 murder in Riverside County.
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California inmate dies of natural causes after 26 years on death row SACRAMENTO, Calif. A California prison inmate who spent 26 years on death row for murder has died of natural causes, the fourth so far this year in a state that hasn't carried out an execution since 2006.
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Legionnaires' outbreak grows, keeping San Quentin locked down An environmental consultant has been brought into the hunt for the source of Legionnaires' disease at San Quentin state prison.
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Killer T-cell therapy shows promise against leukemia MIAMI - A cancer-killing therapy that engineers a patient's own immune cells to wipe out chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) has shown long-term success in a handful of people, a US study said Wednesday.
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Teen paralyzed in swimming accident walks again EAST MEADOW, N.Y. -- A Long Island teen is walking again months after he was paralyzed in a devastating swimming accident. On Wednesday, 17-year-old Nico Fiorello took a few steps unassisted and talked about his remarkable recovery.
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New 'smart' collars monitor pets for pain, problems Michele Saltzman of Bedford, Massachusetts, poses with Lucas, a 10-year-old beagle she adopted in October, 2014. Because Lucas has a heart murmur and fainting spells, Saltzman bought a PetPace health collar, which alerts her about any changes in ...
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Study supports watch-and-wait approach for many prostate cancers (Reuters Health) - In a long-term study of older men diagnosed with low-risk prostate cancer and followed with active surveillance, less than a third of cases eventually needed treatment, according to a new study.
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Some leukemia patients see durable results from Novartis therapy Some leukemia patients who had exhausted other treatment options have no trace of the disease more than four years after being treated with an experimental type of therapy called CAR T cells in a small pilot study at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Chewing tobacco ban at Fenway, other Boston ballparks OK'd BOSTON (AP) - A ban on chewing tobacco and other smokeless tobacco products at Fenway Park and other Boston sports venues has been approved by the city council.
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Salesforce Launches Health Cloud CRM · Relevant Products/Services giant Salesforce today announced the Health Cloud. As its name suggests, its goal is to help healthcare providers build stronger relationships with patients.
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Seattle E. coli Outbreak Linked to Los Chilangos Food Truck An E. coli outbreak that has sickened at least six people and hospitalized three, including at least one child, has been linked to Los Chilangos food trucks operating in Washington state.
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World's largest public stem cell bank inaugurated in California California researchers opened the world's largest publicly available stem cell bank Tuesday, which will aid in the search for cures for genetic diseases such as Alzheimer's, epilepsy and autism.
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Suicide-by-firearm rates shift in two states after changes in state gun laws A new study examining changes in gun policy in two states finds that handgun purchaser licensing requirements influence suicide rates.
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Lincoln Journal Star: ACA roots grow deeper The Affordable Care Act is a sloppily written and overly complex piece of legislation. Five years after passage, slightly more Americans disapprove of the ACA than approve (47 percent approve; 48 percent don't), according to Gallup.
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California Strangers Repair Elderly Man's Roof After Neighbor's Heartwarming ... Richard Dubiel, 75, hammered in the final nail after strangers volunteered to repair his roof. David Perez. An elderly man's once-rickety roof is now ship-shape -- all thanks to his neighbor's Facebook post, which successfully convinced strangers to ...
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Survey: Mental health stigmas are shifting Atlanta (CNN) Mental health has a long-standing public perception problem, but the stigma appears to be shifting, at least in the United States, a new survey reveals.
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People are living longer but sicker, study discovers A new study from the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation discovered life expectancy has increased over six years since 1990 to 2013.
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Prevent Peanut Allergies by Giving Kids Peanuts, Doctors Say The American Academy of Pediatrics has some advice for parents trying to prevent their kids from developing peanut allergies: Give them peanuts.
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USDA says childhood Obesity is Down The USDA is reporting tonight that kids are getting healthier, and that's due to eating healthier at school. The USDA is also reporting that while kids are getting thinner, your wallet is getting fatter.
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