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Doctors advised to curtail antibiotic dosages

Medicine & Health / Medications

created 3 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

It's a common scene: Mom brings aching child with some bug to the doctor's office, expecting the doctor to do, well, something.


Health care loophole would allow coverage limits (AP)

Health care loophole would allow coverage limits

Medicine & Health / Health

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(AP) -- A loophole in the Senate health care bill would let insurers place annual dollar limits on medical care for people struggling with costly illnesses such as cancer, prompting a rebuke from patient ...


Landmark study confirms chemotherapy benefit in breast cancer patients

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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Chemotherapy generally improves survival in postmenopausal breast cancer patients, according to a landmark study led by Dr. Kathy Albain of Loyola University Health System.


The need for cardio-oncology: Treating cancer and protecting the heart

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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Cardiologists and oncologists must work together in an attempt to avoid or prevent adverse cardiovascular effects in patients from certain chemotherapies, especially for those who may be at a higher risk for such effects, ...


Scientists find way to catalog all that goes wrong in a cancer cell

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created 19 hours ago | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of Princeton University scientists has produced a systematic listing of the ways a particular cancerous cell has "gone wrong," giving researchers a powerful tool that eventually could make possible ...


Obesity linked with poorer breast cancer outcomes

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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Breast cancer patients with a high body mass index (BMI) have a poorer cancer prognosis later in life. Specifically, their treatment effect does not last as long and their risk of death increases.


Successful stem cell therapy for treatment of eye disease

Medicine & Health / Research

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Newly published research, by investigators, at the North East England Stem Cell Institute (NESCI) in the journal Stem Cells reported the first successful treatment of eight patients with "Limbal Stem Cell Deficiency" (LSCD) ...


Jefferson neurosurgeon helps draft new treatment guidelines for brain metastases

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New treatment guidelines for patients with brain metastases are now available from the American Association of Neurological Surgeons (AANS) and the Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS). David Andrews, M.D., F.A.C.S., ...



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