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Not All Breast Cancer Patients Need Double Mastectomies: Study

Not All Breast Cancer Patients Need Double Mastectomies: Study

Health And Wellness

26 Jan 2009
Seattle - Scientists have developed several risk factors that will predict who would benefit from preventive mastectomy. The number of women choosing to have preventive mastectomies ...

Mariana Bridi da Costa Dies In Hospital

Mariana Bridi da Costa Dies In Hospital

Health And Wellness

24 Jan 2009
Seattle - Brazialian model, Mariana Bridi da Costa, who has twice made it to the national level for the Miss World contest, has died in ...

Uk Adults Drinking Too Much Say Researchers

Uk Adults Drinking Too Much Say Researchers

Health And Wellness

23 Jan 2009
London - It is advised that men should not drink more than three or four servings of alcohol, while women should not drink more than ...

 
Obama Reverses ban on abortion funds

Obama Reverses ban on abortion funds

Health And Wellness

23 Jan 2009
Seattle - Since the legal decision of Roe V. Wade, America has had a somewhat erratic position on abortion. This has much to do with American ...

Tea Can Cut Breast Cancer Risk: Study

Tea Can Cut Breast Cancer Risk: Study

Health And Wellness

21 Jan 2009
Seattle - A recent study led by Dr. Nagi Kumar of the Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida has shown that drinking three cups of ...

Colon Cancer Study Involving Avastin Expected By April

Colon Cancer Study Involving Avastin Expected By April

Health And Wellness

21 Jan 2009
Seattle - Genetech Inc said Tuesday that results from its colon cancer study involving Avastin for patients who have had surgery, could be released as ...

 
Study: Mens brain fight food urges better

Study: Mens brain fight food urges better

Health And Wellness

21 Jan 2009
Seattle - According to a recent study on the human brain, men are unconsciously able to resist food urges better than women. The goal of ...

MRSA Infection On The Rise Among Children of America

MRSA Infection On The Rise Among Children of America

Health And Wellness

20 Jan 2009
Seattle - News that rocked all the American parents was the report that more children in America are now threatened by resistant strains of bacteria ...

China reports second bird flu death this month

China reports second bird flu death this month

Health And Wellness

19 Jan 2009
China has reported that a second person has died from the bird during the month of January. The World Health Organization has reported that bird ...

 
China Posing for Bird Flu Epidemic

China Posing for Bird Flu Epidemic

Health And Wellness

18 Jan 2009
Seattle - China reports the H5NI strain of Bird Flu has claimed another victim. On Saturday, January 17, a young woman died from Bird Flu. According ...

UnitedHealth Settles Class Action Lawsuit with Doctor Group

UnitedHealth Settles Class Action Lawsuit with Doctor Group

Health And Wellness

18 Jan 2009
Seattle - UnitedHealth Group Inc., the second largest health insurer in the nation, agreed Thursday to pay a record $350 million settlement in order to ...

Senators Approve SCHIP

Senators Approve SCHIP

Health And Wellness

17 Jan 2009
Seattle - The bill known as SCHIP, (State Children’s Health Insurance Program,) was passed by the House of Representatives on January 14, 2009. Senators from ...

 
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