Health News

• Vinegar screening helps cut cervical cancer deaths in India: study

  Sunday, June 02, 2013

  By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) - A simple screening program for cervical cancer using vinegar and visual exams helped reduce...

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• Roche's Avastin extends life in advanced cervical cancer

  Sunday, June 02, 2013

  By Bill Berkrot (Reuters) - Roche Holding AG's drug Avastin helped prolong the lives of women with advanced cervical cancer when add...

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• Longer tamoxifen use reduces breast cancer recurrence

  Sunday, June 02, 2013

  By Deena Beasley CHICAGO (Reuters) - Breast cancer is less likely to recur if women previously treated for the disease take the drug...

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• Dutch authorities to cull poultry after avian influenza outbreak

  Saturday, June 01, 2013

  AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Health authorities will cull 11,000 chickens at a farm in the Netherlands after an outbreak of a mild form of ...

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• Bristol drug shrinks melanoma in 31 percent of trial patients

  Saturday, June 01, 2013

  By Deena Beasley CHICAGO (Reuters) - An experimental drug from Bristol-Myers Squibb shrank tumors in 31 percent of patients with adv...

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• Amgen melanoma drug improved survival by 21 percent in interim look

  Saturday, June 01, 2013

  By Deena Beasley CHICAGO (Reuters) - Data from a pivotal trial of Amgen Inc's experimental melanoma therapy shows that it improved s...

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• Glaxo drug shown to delay ovarian cancer relapse

  Saturday, June 01, 2013

  By Deena Beasley CHICAGO (Reuters) - A cancer drug sold by GlaxoSmithKline was shown in a clinical trial to extend by several months...

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• Merck KGaA's Erbitux beats Avastin in bowel cancer trial

  Saturday, June 01, 2013

  FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Merck KGaA's cancer drug Erbitux was shown to be more effective at prolonging the lives of bowel cancer patien...

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• Federal judge lifts ban on public access to Medicare data

  Friday, May 31, 2013

  By Maurice Tamman (Reuters) - A federal judge lifted a 33-year-old injunction barring public access to a confidential database of Me...

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• BDSM practitioners aren't mentally ill: study

  Friday, May 31, 2013

  By Andrew M. Seaman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Some good news for people who enjoy restraints, riding crops and floggers in the bed...

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