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The same genetic mutations as Jolie carried by between one in 500 and one in 1,000 women
Between one in 500 and one in 1,000 women carry the genetic mutations for breast cancer, BRCA1 and BRCA2, explained Dr. Barb McGillivray, medical director of the agency’s hereditary cancer program in Vancouver. And about 30 per cent of them choose to have surgery that can prevent them from developing cancer by removing all their breast tissue.
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Blood pressure drug 'fights cancer'
A commonly used blood pressure drug could help fight cancer by opening up blood vessels in solid tumours.
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Gold-Plated Nanoparticles Seek and Destroy Cancer Cells
In a recently published study, researchers from Cornell University detail how they developed gold-plated nanoparticles that are able to find and destroy cancer cells. Comparable to nano-scale Navy Seals, Cornell scientists have merged tiny gold and iron oxide particles to work as a team..
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New Link Found between Stem Cells, Cancer Development
Dr Yang Wang and colleagues from Vanderbilt University have shown a novel mechanism of cancer development through EGFR negative regulator, LRIG1.
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Can the Crowd Solve Medical Mysteries?
The change in Robert Loop’s twelve-year-old son happened overnight. His wide smile and happy-go-lucky nature vanished into the December night, replaced by anxiety, temper tantrums, and profound distress. Christian’s eyes kept rolling—perhaps not an uncommon behavior for many adolescents—but no matter how hard he tried, he just couldn’t stop.
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Watching this video could save your life - how to rescue yourself from choking
The paramedic who developed the new technique claims it creates a strong enough force to stop you from choking. Watching this video could just save your life. Paramedic (and fire fighter!) Jeff Rehman has developed a way of trying to save your own life when you are choking an nobody else is around. It's not so much a life hack, but more of a stay alive hack.
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Ringing In Your Ears? Finally, Researchers Finding New Clues About Tinnitus
Tinnitus -- ringing or other noise in the ears -- affects some 50 million Americans, including nearly a million veterans. It's finally starting to get the attention it deserves from researchers, who are gaining new insights into what goes wrong.
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Kansas woman faces prison and loses son after he tells classmates medical marijuana saved mom’s life
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Sprayable foam that slows bleeding could save lives
Traumatic injuries, whether from serious car accidents, street violence or military combat, can lead to significant blood loss and death. But using a material derived from crustacean shells, scientists have now developed a foam that can be sprayed onto an open wound to stop the bleeding. They report their successful tests on pigs in the journal ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering.
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Probiotics Continue To Show Promise
Using probiotics may quell the duration of symptoms in those persons with an acute upper respiratory infection. Research reveals that certain probiotics (Lactic acid and bifidobacteria) may even prevent acute URTI's associated with the common cold, laryngitis, and more.
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Tick Bite Forces Woman To Get All 4 Limbs Amputated
A mother's trip to Northeast Oklahoma ended in four of her limbs being amputated after a tick bite led to her developing Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
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7 unbelievable genetic accidents
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Evidence for Person-to-Person Transmission of Alzheimer's Pathology
Prions are the misshapen proteins that replicate by inducing normal proteins to misfold and aggregate in the brain, leading to rare diseases such as mad cow and kuru. In recent years, scientists have discovered that similar processes of protein misfolding are at work in many neurodegenerative disorders, including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Lou Gehrig’s disease. Now, a study in Nature reveals the first evidence...
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Most Americans Will Be Misdiagnosed at Least Once
Alarming gaps in knowledge about diagnostic errors and medical delays require intense scrutiny, says an expert medical advisory group
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Supreme Court rules Canadians have right to doctor-assisted suicide
Canadian adults in grievous, unending pain have a right to end their life with a doctor’s help, the Supreme Court ruled on Friday. The unanimous ruling, by establishing that the “sanctity of life” also includes the “passage into death,” extends constitutional rights into a new realm. The courts have used the 1982 Charter of Rights to establish gay marriage and to strike down a federal abortion law. The new ruling will change the way some Canadians are permitted to die.
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Orthopedic surgeon Dr. Munir Uwaydah alleged ringleader in $150 million insurance scam
An orthopedic surgeon is charged as the ringleader in one of California's biggest health fraud schemes, which included unnecessary operations by an untrained assistant that scarred patients forever, according to indictments unsealed Tuesday. Dr. Munir Uwaydah and 14 associates, including another doctor and a lawyer, bilked insurance companies out of $150 million in the scheme, Los Angeles District...
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Hospital Worker Locked in Bathroom for Days Found Dead: Family
A Bronx hospital worker was found dead inside a bathroom days after he went to the emergency room to get treated for an injured finger, his family says. Anthony Iuso's family was angry as they wondered Monday how their brother, son and father could get locked inside a bathroom at Montefiore Medical Center, where he worked, for days without anyone noticing.
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Arm mole count 'predicts skin cancer risk'
Having more than 11 moles on one arm indicates a higher-than-average risk of skin cancer or melanoma, research suggests. Counting moles on the right arm was found to be a good indicator of total moles on the body. More than 100 indicates five times the normal risk. The study, published in the British Journal of Dermatology, used data from 3,000 twins in the UK.
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Cancer is not just 'bad luck' but down to environment, study suggests
Cancer is overwhelmingly a result of environmental factors and not largely down to bad luck, a study suggests. Earlier this year, researchers sparked a debate after suggesting two-thirds of cancer types were down to luck rather than factors such as smoking. The new study, in the journal Nature, used four approaches to conclude only 10-30% of cancers were down to the way the body naturally functions or "luck". Experts said the analysis was "pretty convincing".
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Deadly Dentistry: Junior’s Story
A 4-year-old Dallas boy goes to get cavities fixed — and is drugged to death. First they drugged him. Then they sent Mom to the waiting room. Then they strapped his torso and wrists to a padded board. But Junior did not let down his guard. At the sound of the drill, dental records say, the 4-year-old began “whining, crying and moving.” So they pulled a strap across his forehead, then soldiered on to the last breath. His death opens a door into dentistry’s netherworld...
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