March 13, 2010 / Cancer, Medical Blog, Pregnancy
HealthDay - FRIDAY, March 12 (HealthDay News) -- Good news for women who have used birth control pills: A long-term study finds that those who took oral contraceptives at some point in their lives hav
March 12, 2010 / Cancer, Medical Blog, Pregnancy
HealthDay - FRIDAY, March 12 (HealthDay News) -- Children with behavioral problems are at increased risk for chronic pain when they reach adulthood, new Scottish research has found. More here:
March 12, 2010 / Cancer, Medical Blog
HealthDay - FRIDAY, March 12 (HealthDay News) -- MRI scans are more likely to turn up undiagnosed tumors in the breasts of postmenopausal women who already had cancer in their other breast, researcher
March 12, 2010 / Cancer, Medical Blog, Pregnancy
Reuters - Vaccines that contain a mercury-based preservative called thimerosal cannot cause autism on their own, a special U.S. court ruled on Friday, dealing one more blow to parents seeking to blame
March 12, 2010 / Cancer, Medical Blog
AP - The Food and Drug Administration is adding its strongest warning to the label for Plavix, cautioning that some patients do not respond to the blockbuster blood thinner. Read more here:
March 12, 2010 / Cancer, Medical Blog
AP - People with occasional spikes in their blood pressure could be at higher risk of having a stroke than those with regularly high blood pressure, new studies said Friday. Read the original her
March 12, 2010 / Cancer, Medical Blog
HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Melanoma is an often deadly form of skin cancer. Protecting yourself from sun damage can help protect your skin. Original post: Health Tip: Risk Factors for Mel
March 11, 2010 / Cancer, Healthy Life
At-home screening tests for the virus responsible for most cervical cancers could detect many more cases of the disease, say Dutch researchers. Although cervical screening programmes have cut deaths,
March 11, 2010 / Cancer, Medical Blog, Pregnancy
Reuters - Women who gain weight too quickly during the first three months of pregnancy are more prone to develop pregnancy-related diabetes, new research shows. Continued here: Big first trimest
March 11, 2010 / Cancer, Medical Blog
Reuters - More 12-year-olds in the United States admit to using potentially deadly inhalants to get high than have used marijuana, cocaine and hallucinogens combined, U.S. health officials said on Thu
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