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UPDATE: Why Women Need to Maintain a Healthy Body Max Index

Sep. 30 | According to the online report published in the September online edition of the journal BMJ, researchers from Harvard School of Public Health and Brigham and Women’s Hospital found women who were obese at midlife were almost 80 percent less likely...

Extra Weight into Middle Age Equals Bad News for Women

Sep. 30 | According to a new study, putting on weight into middle age cuts the chance of living a long and healthy life by approximately 80%. The research, published in the British Medical Journal says women who are obese in their middle ages reduce their odds...

New Study Suggests Turning in Those Heels for a Pair of Running Shoes

Sep. 29 | The study was the work of lead author Alyssa B. Dufour from the Institute for Aging Research of Hebrew SeniorLife in Boston, Massachusetts, and colleagues, and is published in the October issue of the journal Arthritis Care & Research. The research...

UPDATE: Is Removing a Healthly Breast Worth it?

Sep. 28 | According to a new study on how many American women are undergoing prophylactic mastectomy, a growing number of women are deciding to remove a healthy breast after being diagnosed with breast cancer. The problem is there is little data available on the...

Little Evidence Double Mastectomy Improves Survival

Sep. 28 | According to new research, a growing number of women are getting both breasts removed after cancer is diagnosed in one, even though there is little evidence that a double mastectomy can improve survival. The study appears in Cancer, the journal of the...

UPDATE: Couple Makes Tough Choice After Fertility Clinic’s Error

Sep. 27 | Carolyn Savage, who had the wrong embryo implanted by a fertility clinic, has given birth to a healthy boy. Her and husband Sean offered their “heartfelt congratulations” Friday night to the infant’s biological parents, Shannon and Paul...

Couple Makes Tough Choice After Fertility Clinic’s Error

Sep. 27 | Carolyn Savage, who was implanted with another couple’s embryo in February, delivered a healthy baby boy, who was given to his natural parents. The baby was delivered at St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center in Toledo. Instead of taking the baby that she...

Allergan gets FDA approval for eyelash treatment

Sep. 26 | A cosmetic drug maker named Allergan Inc. has just gotten approval from the Food and Drug Administration for an eyelash treatment. The eye lash treatment is called Latisse. Latisse helps to treat a condition called hypotrichosis. This condition affects...

AIDS Research Takes Giant Step Forward

Sep. 26 | Being called a medical breakthrough, an American funded study that was carried out on 16,000 individuals in Thailand says that a combination of two vaccines has cut HIV infections by 31.2 percent. Some people with HIV produce the antibodies that have...

UPDATE: Insufficient Data to Support PSA Testing for Prostate Cancer

Sep. 25 | Screening all men for prostate cancer using the prostate screening antigen test (PSA) may not, in some instances, be beneficial, according to a new study. In two separate reports published on the British Medical Journal (BMJ) website, European researchers...