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(Wiley) A new review looks at cervical cancer screening in the era of HPV vaccination. The review notes that trials have demonstrated the efficacy and safety of vaccines against HPV infection, but the complete effect of ...

The hormone therapy drug abiraterone (Zytiga) can significantly extend the lives of prostate cancer patients by slowing tumor progression and increasing survival rates. These findings came from two clinical trials presen...

Moderate drinkers who consume between 14 and 21 units of alcohol per week still have higher risk for a type of brain damage compared with teetotalers. What does this say about drinking limit guidelines?

Four people died due to a drug overdose in south and central Georgia. Many individuals were rushed to the ER after swallowing an unknown street drug or yellow pill.

A new study revealed that the weekend 'social jet lag' is associated with heart disease risks. The researchers claimed that each hour of 'social jet lag' increases heart disease risk by 11 percent.

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A new study has found no 'clinically significant' differences between the two effects of whole wheat bread and white b

News According to MedCity News, the watch can now by synched with gym equipment to track calories burned, heart rate, speed, and other metrics ... Staff Author: Lexie Metzler Topics: Wearables

News Doctors also use deep brain stimulation to treat some patients with obsessive compulsive disorder, epilepsys ... Contributed Author: Anne Trafton, MIT News Office Topics: Neurology

News This study included 22 patients with invasive breast cancer. F-18-FDG was injected 45 to 60 minutes before surgery. Immediately after the excision of tumors ... Contributed Author: Society of Nuclear Medicine Topics...

A new study recommended that parents do not share their beds with babies. The researchers advised parents to stop sharing the bed after the baby was six months to reduce the infant's poor sleep.

(Griffith University) E. coli may have potentially harmful effects but scientists in Australia have discovered this bacterium produces a toxin which binds to an unusual sugar that is part of carbohydrate structures prese...

(Newcastle University) New guidelines have been published on the clinical and physical indicators to help ensure patients with dementia with Lewy bodies get an accurate diagnosis and the best care possible.

(University of Sydney) University of Sydney researchers have found that smartphone apps for treating back pain have questionable value as they are generally of poor quality, and have not been rigorously evaluated. Publis...

(Elsevier) As most college students' diets are low in fruits and vegetables and high in calories, sugar, fat, and sodium, researchers from the University of Toronto and Memorial University of Newfoundland created a cross...

(Wiley) Pain that interferes with daily life, rather than pain per se, was associated with an increased risk of early death in a recent analysis.

(University of Arizona Health Sciences) The UA College of Pharmacy's Jenny Lo-Ciganic, PhD, has been awarded a $100,000 grant to evaluate Medicare administrative claims data for more than 3 million beneficiaries and gene...

(Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health) The timing of a girl's first menstruation may affect her first sexual encounter, first pregnancy, and her vulnerability to some sexually transmitted infections. The...

(Wiley) Researchers who previously showed that a gene therapy treatment could save the lives of dogs with a deadly disease called myotubular myopathy -- a type of muscular dystrophy that affects the skeletal muscles -- h...

(The North American Menopause Society (NAMS)) Both aging and menopause are known to affect sarcopenia, which is a loss of muscle mass and strength, which in turn affects balance, gait, and overall ability to perform task...

(University of Alberta Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry) Seventy percent of readings from home blood pressure monitors are unacceptably inaccurate, which could cause serious implications for people who rely on them to mak...

(Wiley) A new study found that for many women in rural El Salvador, home-based HPV self-sampling for women is an acceptable way to participate in a cervical cancer screening program.