For women undergoing autologous breast reconstruction—reconstruction using the patient's own tissues, rather than implants—the risks of overall and specific complications are increased at higher body mass index (BMI) ...
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Health officials in New Jersey are investigating a possible outbreak of the mumps. A cluster of cases of the contagious virus quickly spread among an eight-person family in Hunterdon County, the state department of health ...
Mar 7, 2024
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While better screening and improved treatments are leading to better outcomes for patients with breast cancer, 90% of breast cancer deaths are a result of metastasis, or the cancer growing and spreading to other parts of ...
Mar 6, 2024
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Vitamin K is a nutrient that helps blood clot or stop bleeding. Most adults get vitamin K from their food. Bacteria in the large intestines also make some vitamin K that the body can absorb.
Mar 6, 2024
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UC San Francisco researchers have designed a candidate drug that could help make pancreatic cancer, which is almost always fatal, a treatable, perhaps even curable, condition.
Mar 5, 2024
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Lactating mothers who get the COVID-19 booster pass along the antibodies to their children via their breast milk—and potentially protect babies too young to receive the vaccine, a study from the University of Florida Institute ...
Mar 4, 2024
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Certain medications for multiple sclerosis (MS) called monoclonal antibodies, taken while breastfeeding, may not affect the development of a child during the first three years of life, according to a preliminary study presenting ...
Mar 4, 2024
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Male breast cancer has distinct alterations in the tumor genome that may suggest potential treatment targets, according to a study by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators. They have conducted the first whole genome sequencing ...
Mar 4, 2024
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As people in the U.S. prepare to set their clocks ahead one hour on Sunday, March 10, 2024, I find myself bracing for the annual ritual of media stories about the disruptions to daily routines caused by switching from standard ...
Mar 4, 2024
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There's a host of studies supporting the numerous ways breastfeeding helps baby's development—and the health of mothers, too.
Mar 4, 2024
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