Insight: Crunching the numbers to boost odds against cancer
November 1st, 2012
A dispensing chemist prepares drugs for a chemotherapy treatment in a sterile room at Antoine-Lacassagne Cancer Centre in Nice October 18, 2012. Picture taken October 18, 2012
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Top medical innovations treat headaches, diabetes
October 31st, 2012
An Autonomic Technologies Inc. (ATI) Neurostimulator, an almond-size device that is implanted in the mouth to relief severe headaches, is pictured in this undated handout photo. The best medical innovations for next year include the device and a hand-held scanner resembling a blow dryer that detects skin cancer, the Cleveland Clinic said on October 31, 2012
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Planned Parenthood sues again over Texas health program
October 26th, 2012
Fri Oct 26, 2012 5:10pm EDT (Reuters) – Planned Parenthood family planning providers in Texas filed a new lawsuit on Friday over a rule that bars its clinics from a state health program for low-income women because the organization performs abortions. The suit was filed in state court, after a federal appeals court declined on Thursday to reconsider a ruling allowing Texas to withhold funding for women’s healthcare from Planned Parenthood clinics. The new lawsuit tries a different legal tactic, filing in state rather than federal court, and arguing that the way the Texas rule is written violates state law
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Court refuses Planned Parenthood appeal of Texas funding cut
October 26th, 2012
By Corrie MacLaggan AUSTIN, Texas | Thu Oct 25, 2012 8:19pm EDT AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – A federal appeals court declined on Thursday to reconsider a ruling that would allow Texas to withhold funding for women’s healthcare from Planned Parenthood’s clinics because the organization also performs abortions. Texas Governor Rick Perry said after the order by the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans that the state would immediately stop paying program participants that are affiliates of abortion providers.
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Study finds why Roche’s Avastin only works in some patients
October 23rd, 2012
By Kate Kelland LONDON | Tue Oct 23, 2012 1:01pm EDT LONDON (Reuters) – Genetic testing could help doctors find the small number of patients with advanced bowel cancer likely to benefit from cancer drug Avastin, scientists said on Tuesday. In a study of Roche’s blockbuster drug, which targets and blocks a protein called VEGF-A, researchers found that different forms of the protein lead to varying responses and Avastin had no benefit in at least half of those taking it
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Hormone therapy not recommended for disease prevention: U.S. panel
October 22nd, 2012
By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO | Mon Oct 22, 2012 5:05pm EDT CHICAGO (Reuters) – The risks of taking hormone therapy to prevent heart disease and osteoporosis in post menopausal women far outweigh the benefits and such treatment is not recommended, according to new guidelines from an influential panel of U.S. health advisers. The guidelines from the U.S
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Like girls, U.S. boys may be hitting puberty earlier
October 20th, 2012
By Genevra Pittman NEW YORK | Sat Oct 20, 2012 10:37am EDT NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Boys in the United States may be entering puberty earlier than in generations past, a new study has found, suggesting it’s not just girls who are developing at younger ages. In comparisons with decades-old data, boys who were seen for well-child visits between 2005 and 2010 were maturing six months to two years sooner, based on their genital development. The finding is significant for researchers seeking to understand why the age of puberty may be creeping down.
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FDA approves Celgene’s Abraxane for lung cancer
October 12th, 2012
Fri Oct 12, 2012 10:16am EDT (Reuters) – U.S. health regulators on Friday widened the approved use of Celgene Corp’s breast cancer drug Abraxane to include treatment for non-small cell lung cancer, the most common form of lung cancer.
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Therapy, exercise aid in chemo-related menopause
October 11th, 2012
By Genevra Pittman NEW YORK | Thu Oct 11, 2012 3:30pm EDT NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Younger women who are thrust into menopause because of breast cancer treatment may get some relief from talk therapy and regular exercise, a new study from the Netherlands suggests. Symptoms including hot flashes and vaginal dryness often come on gradually for women who go through natural menopause, as the body’s production of hormones slowly dwindles
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Cancer treatment speeded by genome superhighway: creator
October 2nd, 2012
Tue Oct 2, 2012 7:01pm EDT (Reuters) – A new supercomputer-based network will allow doctors to use genomic sequencing to speed cancer treatment and could increase survival chances for patients, its creator, billionaire healthcare businessman Dr. Patrick Soon Shiong, said on Tuesday
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