Category: Health Newsfeed
May 29, 2015 – Asthma and Prostate Cancer
May 28, 2015 – Family History
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Anchor lead: Family histories don’t rule when it comes to breast cancer prognosis, Elizabeth Tracey reports Do women who’ve been diagnosed with breast cancer need to worry about what’s happened to relatives with the disease? No, a study of several …
May 27, 2015 – Vitamin B and Skin Ca
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Anchor lead: Can a supplement reduce some skin cancer recurrences? Elizabeth Tracey reports Skin cancers are very common, and although only melanoma is usually life-threatening, they can require disfiguring surgery and often recur. Now an Australian study shows that in …
May 26, 2015 – PE
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Anchor lead: A team approach may help in pulmonary embolism, Elizabeth Tracey reports. Pulmonary embolism, abbreviated PE, is when a blood clot forms in the blood vessels to the lung and may be life-threatening. People with cancer, trauma, those who …
May 25, 2015 – caM kinase
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Anchor lead: Can targeting a single enzyme help both heart failure and arrhythmias? Elizabeth Tracey reports Heart failure and disordered beating of the heart known as arrhythmia are killers, but as different as they appear clinically they have an enzyme …
May 22, 2015 – C.dif Treatment
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Anchor lead: Can a simple treatment reduce a common hospital-acquired infection? Elizabeth Tracey reports Spores of clostridium difficile, an organism often responsible for diarrhea and sometimes death of hospitalized people, may be effective in preventing reccurence of the illness, a …