Beware of hormone therapy! U.S. study found out that women using combined hormone therapy had an increased risk of abnormal mammograms and breast biopsies. It was found in the study that combined hormone therapy- a combination of estrogen plus progesterone was linked to more than one in 10 women having avoidable mammogram abnormalities and […]

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Who would ever thought that cats can reduce the risk of heart attack. A study by the University of Minnesota’s Stroke Research Center found that people who had previously or currently owned cats were less likely to die from heart attack and other cardiovascular disease. 4,435 people aged 30 to 75 were examined for […]

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Worried about hair loss? Worry no more! For a gene that prevents regeneration of hair has been identified, opening a broad path to a treatments for thinning locks. A healthy individual loses about 100 strands of hair daily, with losses occurring evenly around the whole scalp. However, this hair is replaced but problem begins […]

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Avastin was finally approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for breast cancer treatment. This drug has been already used in lung and colon cancer. According to WebMD, Avastin can be used in combination with the chemotherapy drug Taxol in patients who haven’t had chemotherapy and who have metastatic HER2-negative breast cancer.
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Heart surgery drugs, safe or unsafe? Two new studies confirm an increased incidence of death and kidney damage among people given Trasylol (aprotinin), a drug used to reduce bleeding during coronary artery bypass surgeries and it suggest that the drugs raises patients risk over both the short and long term.
Trasylol’s German maker, Bayer […]

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