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New York to legalize medical marijuana, but not to smoke

Jun 20, 2014

New York State voted today to legalize medical marijuana for people with extreme medical needs. However, patients will not be able to smoke it. Instead, the natural drug will have to be consumed via edibles,...

Mammograms may reduce cancer deaths by almost 30 percent

Platonium

Jun 18, 2014

Health

Mammograms may help reduce the risk of dying from breast cancer by 28 percent, says a new study. The study wanted to look at the exact benefits of mammograms, and if they do more harm than good. In a previou...

Eating red meat may increase risk of breast cancer in women

Platonium

Jun 12, 2014

Health

A new Harvard study shows a link between eating red meat and breast cancer in women. The Harvard study looked at data from over 88,000 premenstrual women, all of whom took part in the Nurses' Health Study II...

New drug helps prostate cancer survival in faster recovery

Ally Stackhouse

Jun 2, 2014

Health

Recently a cheap and decade old chemotherapy drug was found to be effective in prolonging the life of persons on standard hormone therapy and whose prostate cancer has widely metastasized. The men who received ...

ASCO 2014: Federal funding shrink and results appear just as money is going away

Ally Stackhouse

Jun 1, 2014

Health

The 50th annual meeting of American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) will see at its afternoon plenary session new insights and information related to breast, prostate and colorectal cancers and each funded ...

Breast cancer and lung cancer are linked genetically

Platonium

Jun 1, 2014

Health

Researchers have found that the gene that causes breast cancer can also lead to lung cancer. BRCA2, the gene that causes an increased risk of developing breast cancer, is also responsible for increasing the ...

New lung cancer drug can help extend lives 14 percent

Platonium

Jun 1, 2014

Health

Ramucirumab, a drug that was made to help patients with gastric cancer, is now going to be used to help patients with lung cancer who have previously experienced a relapse after chemotherapy. The Cancer Rese...

New Chemotherapy drug preserves Breast Cancer patients Fertility

Platonium

May 30, 2014

Health

A new study has shown that monthly injections of the drug goserelin can preserve the fertility of women undergoing chemotherapy. The study involved data from over 200 women with breast cancer. It found that ...

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