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Fry Your Food But Skip The Heart Disease?
Fried foods are unlikely to increase the health of your heart, but they might not be the big heart no-no they were once suspected of being.
Linking Your Genes to Menopause Onset
Many women reach menopause suddenly, or so it seems to them. What if doctors could predict at exactly which age you’ll hit menopause, allowing you to prepare yourself for major hormonal changes?
ER 1/25 4 PM CST Longterm Heart Risk Predictions May be Deceptive
The common practice of predicting the risk of heart attack and stroke a decade into the future might be giving some patients a false sense of security.
Proteins in Psoriasis, Breast Cancer Linked
Research into treating breast cancer may have also stumbled onto a way to treat psoriasis. The two conditions share a protein that, if blocked, may reduce the intensity of both diseases.
Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia, B Gone
Typical cancer treatments involve broad spectrum drugs that can cause harmful effects to a wide range of cells. Until recently, specialized medicines without a long list of side effects were a rarity.
Women With Breast Cancer Often Don't Know
Breast cancer is a complicated disease that shows up differently in every woman - and man. And women should be involved in the decision making process, but they simply can't.
Psychiatric Manual Could Lead to Trouble
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is the standard which clinicians use to diagnose their patients. A new edition of the manual contains changes that may lead to omitting certain diagnoses.
More Safety Points for HPV Vaccine
The vaccine recommended for boys and girls to prevent HPV, an infection that can cause cervical and other cancers, has been shown not to cause diabetes, lupus or similar diseases in young women.
Dropping a Bomb on Cancer
As destructive as gamma radiation can be, alpha radiation is far more powerful. But due to its extremely short range, it's never been used to treat cancer. Until now.
Evolutionary Gender Differences
Men and women often exhibit different types of traits when it comes to aggression, prejudice and fear. Social science doesn't fully explain the gender differences, but perhaps evolution does.