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Chemo Not Needed for Most Early Breast Cancer: TAILORx CHICAGO - Adjuvant chemotherapy is not necessary for a large proportion of women with early-stage breast cancer, according to new findings that experts agree are "practice changing.
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Most women with smaller breast cancer tumors can safely skip chemo, study finds New findings show women with early stage breast cancer can avoid chemotherapy. Researchers now say most women with smaller tumors can safely skip the treatment and avoid side effects like fatigue and nausea.
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Experimental immune treatment saves dying breast cancer patient It wasn't looking good for Judy Perkins. Her breast cancer had come back with a vengeance after a 2003 mastectomy and she had big tumors in her chest and on her liver.
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Man Sues CVS For Disclosing Viagra Prescription To Wife, Ruining His Marriage A New York man filed a lawsuit against CVS pharmacy for exposing his Viagra prescription to his wife that led to his "broken marriage," reports said Monday.
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New report finds no evidence that having sex with robots is healthy Sex sells, and robots are no exception. One of the most expensive consumer robots under development, a machine named Harmony, is a $15,000 union of silicone curves and silicon chips.
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Man Sues CVS For Telling Wife He Had Viagra Prescription A New York man claims the actions of a chatty CVS employee turned out to be unhealthy for his marriage. Michael Feinberg is suing the drugstore chain for unspecified damages claiming he suffered "genuine, severe mental injury and emotional harm" after ...
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Best Survival Ever in Resectable Pancreatic Cancer CHICAGO - A new standard of care has emerged for nonmetastatic pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) in patients who have undergone surgical resection and have a good performance status.
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Alzheimer's Disease: A most unforgiving disease The following re-printed and up-dated article is written in commemoration of Alzheimer's disease Awareness Month, which takes place annually in June.
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From Sustainable Clothing to Medicinal Use, Marijuana is One Seriously Dope Plant Sydney, Australia: Hemp, marijuana, cannabis, hash, weed, pot, skunk, mary jane, grass, joint…whatever you want to call it, it's a name variation from the same species - the cannabis plant 'cannabis sativa'.
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Alzheimer's Q&A: What happens to the brain with Alzheimer's disease? After death, molecular and cellular changes can be observed in the brain of someone with Alzheimer's disease. Researchers are trying to determine which changes cause the disease and which changes are a result of the disease.
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Five dead, nearly 200 sick in E. coli outbreak from lettuce. And investigators are stumped. Five people have died and nearly 200 people from nearly three dozen states have been sickened by E. coli in a growing outbreak that has so far stumped federal investigators.
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Why feeling disgust is good for you Women experience disgust more frequently than men due to fundamental evolutionary distinctions, a new study has found. Also, researchers have found that though the feeling of disgust can make us feel sick to our stomach, this unpleasant emotion is a ...
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Naloxone recall due to particulate matter (CNN) The opioid overdose antidote Naloxone has been recalled by its maker, Hospira, the US Food and Drug Administration said Monday.
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Five dead, nearly 200 sick in E. coli outbreak from lettuce. And investigators are stumped. Noe Contrez carries a tray of romaine lettuce transplants as he walks next to a planter at the EG Richter Family Farm in Puyallup, Wash.
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Oncologist: Earlier colorectal screening saves lives Mercy Medical Center's Dr. Timothy Johnson supports the American Cancer's Society's new recommendation that screening for colorectal cancer begin at age 45 instead of 50 for those at average risk.
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What's going on with the latest Ebola outbreak? On May 8, 2018, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) declared a new outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) centered on the market town of Bikoro, near the DRC's border with the Republic of Congo.
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Recent E. Coli Outbreak Claims Five Lives, Sickens Hundreds Investigators have yet to make serious progress against an E. coli outbreak that's already claimed at least five lives while sickening hundreds more.
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CDC: 5 dead, close to 200 sick in worst E. coli outbreak since 2006 Four additional people died and hundreds fell ill after an E. coli outbreak linked to romaine lettuce, the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Friday.
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Federal government responds slowly to Juuling, leaving it to local action WINOOSKI - The booming e-cigarette market got a little bigger - and more attractive to young users - with the addition of a JUUL, a product that doesn't resemble a cigarette, but still delivers the nicotine.
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Britain's first baby born by womb transplant expected by 2020 as patients receive uterus from mother or sister Britain's first baby born as a result of a womb transplant could happen as early as 2020. Richard Smith, the surgeon planning to carry out the first transplant in the UK, has set the two-year target and revealed that his medical team now plans to use ...
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Take precautions, but don't freak out: tick-borne diseases rare in Washington state YAKIMA, Wash. -- So there's good news: The incidence of tick-borne disease in Washington state is relatively rare. The most prevalent such disease in the state, tick-borne relapsing fever, is only reported 10 to 12 times a year, said state Department ...
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More suspected Ebola cases in DRC as response builds In recent days the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) reported a few more suspected Ebola cases, and with lab tests ruling out some earlier cases, the outbreak total grew to 53 cases.
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New approach to immunotherapy leads to complete response in breast cancer patient A novel approach to immunotherapy developed by researchers at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) has led to the complete regression of breast cancer in a patient who was unresponsive to all other treatments.
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Mother marches for son at Pictou County Relay for Life Alta Munroe still recalls the time her son Carlton interviewed his idol Gord Downie of the Tragically Hip. On Saturday, she marched in Relay for Life as part of the Carlton's Crew team in honour of her son, who recently passed away from the same brain ...
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MIT researchers create wireless power delivery for implanted medical devices Researchers at MIT have created a new way to power and communicate with devices that are implanted deep within the human body. Such devices could be used for drug delivery, monitoring internal conditions within the body, or treating disease by treating ...
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Australia has the highest priced cigarettes in the world, so why aren't people quitting? Australia has the highest priced cigarettes in the world, yet the number of people giving up smoking has slowed in recent years. England, USA, Canada, Norway and Iceland are among a long list of western countries that are seeing their citizens kick the ...
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The US Army's new algorithm tells you how much caffeine will hit your body's peak performance The Army wants you….awake. Since at least WWII, US military scientists have been tinkering with the human brain to keep pilots, soldiers and staff alert despite lack of sleep.
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Medical workers in Congo city finish vaccinating contacts of Ebola patients KINSHASA (Reuters) - Medical workers in Democratic Republic of Congo have given all the immediate contacts of Ebola patients in the city of Mbandaka an experimental vaccine as they try to thwart a disease that has killed around 25 people, the health ...
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Incidence rate of cancer in India is among lowest in the world, says study It may seem hard to believe, but the incidence rate of cancer in India is among the lowest in the world. At 106.6 new cancer cases in 2016 per 100,000 people, India ranked tenth among the countries with the lowest cancer incidence in an analysis by the ...
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ASCO 2018: Active Surveillance in the Real World: What Have ProtecT and Other Prospective Trials Taught Us? ... Chicago, IL (UroToday.com) Freddy Hamdy, MD, started the Precision Active Surveillance in Prostate Cancer session by discussing the role and impact of ProtecT and other prospective trials on how active surveillance is disseminated in the real world.
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Exercise Cuts Late Mortality for Kids Who Beat Cancer CHICAGO -- Regular vigorous exercise as an adult reduced the all-cause risk of death for survivors of childhood cancer by about 40%, a researcher said here.
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Baby decapitated due to doctor's actions An unborn baby was decapitated after a Dundee doctor chose the wrong method of delivery, a tribunal has ruled. Dr Vishnavy Vilvanathan Laxman was a consultant gynaecologist at Ninewells Hospital in March 2014 when the tragedy occurred.
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How to Avoid Tick Bites When They're at an All-Time High Photo: Pablo Calvo / Getty Images. In the middle-of-nowhere North Dakota, while hiking a 6-mile section of the iconic Maah Daah Hey trail system, I felt a small sting on my ankle.
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Statin recommendations may change, especially for African-Americans (CNN) Dr. Sanjay Basu was treating an African-American man whom he intuitively thought would be at a high risk for a stroke. The patient smoked; he was older and had high cholesterol.
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Influenza study: Reactions to flu vaccinations being tracked by Australian health researchers Have you had flu vaccination? Were you asked about any reactions to the vaccine? Influenza affects between 10 and 20 per cent of Australians every year, and kills up to 3,500 of those infected.
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WENY News - H1N1 United States Fast Facts (CNN) -- Here's a look at the H1N1 influenza virus, also known as swine flu. There was a pandemic outbreak across the globe which lasted from 2009 to 2010.
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Detecting Lung Cancer From Simple Blood Draw CHICAGO - Diagnosing lung cancer from a simple blood test? Two years ago, this was a "pipe dream" but "today, we actually have data to show this is really feasible to find early-stage cancer in the blood," said lead investigator Geoffrey R. Oxnard, MD ...
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When you can't smoke, why not try quitting? You can no longer smoke in an ever-increasing number of places, including area bars and casinos. Maybe, just maybe, it's time to quit.
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Government to set up 1st infection specialty hospital in Hyderabad HYDERABAD: At a time when doctors in some southern states are trying to find an answer to the dreaded Nipah virus from spreading across the country, Telangana health officials are mulling to set up a state-of-the-art health facility on the campus of ...
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