Archive: 02/05/2016
Monkey bars alert: Playground concussions are on the rise
Playground concussions are on the rise, according to a new government study, and monkey bars and swings are most often involved.
May 2, 2016
Radiotherapy for lung cancer patients is linked to increased risk of non-cancer deaths
Turin, Italy: Researchers have found that treating patients who have early stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with a type of radiotherapy called stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) is associated with a small ...
May 2, 2016
Growing threat of noncommunicable diseases to survival in pregnancy and childbirth
Geneva, 2 May 2016. More women in Mexico than previously thought are dying of indirect causes of maternal mortality - such as type 2 diabetes and hypertension - conditions that often predate their pregnancies, according to ...
May 2, 2016
Radiotherapy more effective than chemotherapy for early stage II testicular cancer
A large study of testicular cancer patients has shown that radiation therapy is a better treatment than chemotherapy for patients with stage IIa disease (where one or more regional lymph nodes contain cancer cells but they ...
May 2, 2016