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Researchers find increased dairy intake reduces risk of uterine fibroids in black women

Medicine & Health / Diseases

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Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) researchers at the Slone Epidemiology Center found that black women with high intake of dairy products have a reduced incidence of uterine leiomyomata (fibroids). This report, based ...


Interventional radiology treatment for uterine fibroids: Safe, nonsurgical option

Interventional radiology treatment for uterine fibroids: Safe, nonsurgical option (w/ Video)

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Aug 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Uterine fibroid embolization—a minimally invasive interventional radiology treatment for women that cuts off blood flow to painful fibroids to kill the tumors—is highlighted as an appropriate treatment for ...


Avoiding hysterectomy: Major interventional radiology E-collection info available

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jul 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

For the first time, the Society of Interventional Radiology has assembled a major electronic collection of professional articles about uterine artery embolization, a treatment directed toward a number of conditions involving ...


Successful neurosurgery with transcranial MR-guided high-intensity focused ultrasound

Successful neurosurgery with transcranial MR-guided high-intensity focused ultrasound

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jun 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The Magnetic Resonance Center of the University Children's Hospital Zurich has achieved a world first break through in MR-guided, non-invasive neurosurgery. Ten patients have been successfully treated by means ...


Bleeding disorders going undiagnosed; new guidelines to help

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created Jun 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Nearly one percent of the population suffers from bleeding disorders, yet many women don't know they have one because doctors aren't looking for the condition, according to researchers at Duke University Medical Center.