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Last week’s Women’s Health Newsflash: Breast Cancer - April 9, 2008 garnered this interesting comment:
It is rare to find so much breast health information in one source, and clearly you have a large following. If you have time, can you please review information on my client’s new blood test for breast cancer - the BT […]
Jennifer of The Daily Blender posted recently about a survey reporting that 78% of consumers are less than confident about the safety of cloned foods. Gee, ya think? Nothing negative toward Jennifer for posting this, but rather a big DUH to the people who are surprised that we’re not jumping up and down at the […]
Who has time to read it all? Here’s a quick rundown of what you need to know in recent women’s health news. Today’s topic: Osteoporosis and bone health.
Alendronate Can Help Prevent Bone Fractures In Many Postmenopausal Women
Giving 10mg per day of the bisphosphate drug alendronate to women after their menopause can help prevent loss of […]
Who has time to read it all? Here’s a quick rundown of what you need to know in recent women’s health news. Today’s topic: Ovarian cancer.
Birth Control Pill Gives Long-lasting Protection Against Ovarian Cancer, Study Shows
The contraceptive Pill gives women substantial and long-lasting protection against ovarian cancer, according to a new report led by Oxford […]
Who has time to read it all? Here’s a quick rundown of what you need to know in recent women’s health news. Today’s topic: Breast cancer.
Surgical Site Infections More Common Than Expected Following Breast Procedures
Excerpt: Infections at the incision site occurred in more than 5 percent of patients following breast surgery and cost them more […]
Research from Spain and the UK indicates that wine and sunlight are two keys to improving health and women — good news for those of us who like both!
On wine…
"The data showed that, in comparison with the baseline period, consumption of both red and white wines increased serum [blood] HDL cholesterol (often called ‘good’ cholesterol), […]
New research indicates a potential solution to stop cancer metastasis by restoring microRNA to cancerous tumors.
They found that in certain aggressive cancers, some of these microRNAs are missing, allowing the aggressive spread of the cancer. When they restored these microRNAs to human breast cancers in laboratory mice, the cancer stopped spreading.
The researchers also found these […]
Part sci-fi movie, part medical marvel, 100% cool. That about sums up the new medical solutions presented last week at the JPMorgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco.
Wired Magazine was there, and they took a look at five super-cool companies and their offerings:
Predicting biology, by Merrimack Pharmaceuticals
Ultrasonic fat elimination, by LipoSonix
Smoking, hypertension, and allergy vaccinations, by […]
Research from Pennsylvania State University shows that eating a small amount of a good-for-you food before you sit down for a meal keeps you from overeating.
"The trick is to make sure that first course only contains about 100 to 150 calories," says Barbara Rolls, a professor of nutritional sciences at Penn State and author […]
Despite evidence to the contrary, most people assume that if you’re at a healthy weight, that means you’re physically fit. But I’m here to tell you that it’s simply not true. There are lots of women out there who may be "fat" but in phenomenal physical condition, and lots of skinny and average chicks (like […]
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