Four out of five doctors who treat cancer were unable to prescribe their medication of choice at least once during a six-month period because of a drug shortage, according to a new survey. The survey also found that more than 75 percent ...
Potentially harmful bacteria was found on 97 percent of chicken breasts bought at stores across the United States and tested, according to a new study. And about half of the chicken samples had at least one type of bacteria that was ...
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The effect that AIDS is having on American kids has improved greatly in recent years, thanks to effective drugs and prevention methods. The same cannot be said, however, for children worldwide. "Maternal-to-child transmission is down ...
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A new test marketed as an alternative to a mammogram for breast cancer detection is not an effective screening TOOL, U.S. health officials say. With the nipple aspirate test, a breast pump collects fluid from a woman's nipple. The fluid ...
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Women fighting an aggressive form of breast cancer may benefit from adding certain drugs to their chemotherapy regimen, and taking them prior to surgery, new research finds. This pre-surgical drug therapy boosts the likelihood that no ...
Exercise can provide older breast cancer survivors with lasting benefits that keep their bones strong and help prevent fractures, a new study suggests. Breast cancer treatment is associated with the loss of bone density and lean body ...
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Nine of 10 women do not need and should not receive genetic testing to see if they are at risk for breast or ovarian cancer, an influential panel of health experts announced Monday. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) ...
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Women bothered by hot flashes or other effects of menopause have a number of treatment options -- hormonal or not, according to updated guidelines from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. It's estimated that anywhere ...
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The Netherlands-based Royal Philips has obtained 510(k) approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the spectral breast density measurement application for use with its MicroDose SI full-field digital mammography (FFDM) ...
In two separate clinical trials, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have found that periodic meetings with a lactation consultant encourages women traditionally resistant to breastfeeding to do so, at ...
Navidea Biopharmaceuticals has submitted a supplemental new drug application (sNDA) to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the approval to market and sale Lymphoseek Injection for sentinel lymph node (SLN) detection in patients ...
US-based Seno Medical Instruments has announced new statistical analysis of outcomes from a feasibility study of its investigational Imagio breast imaging device. The analysis of data from the feasibility study, presented at the San ...
Metabolism was lost in the shadows of cancer research for decades but has recently been reclaiming some of the spotlight. Now, Mina Bissell, Distinguished Scientist with Berkeley Lab's Life Sciences Division and a leading authority on ...
Ventana Medical Systems (Ventana), a member of the Roche Group, has announced that its Ventana HER2/neu (4B5) rabbit monoclonal primary antibody assay is now a companion diagnostic for detecting HER2 protein expression for patients who, in ...
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NanoString Technologies has announced new results from a combined analysis of the Austrian Breast & Colorectal Cancer Study Group 8 (ABCSG-8) and Trans-Arimidex, Tamoxifen, Alone or in Combination (TransATAC) studies. These results, which ...