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For women with a genetic predisposition for breast cancer, radiation from annual mammograms may increase breast cancer risk, Dutch researchers said. Marijke C. Jansen-van der Weide of the University Medical Center in Groningen, the Netherlands, said women who are at high risk for breast cancer need to begin screening at a younger age, because they often develop cancer earlier than ...

By Lachlan Mackinnon Research revealed a quarter of mobiles and palmtop computers are contaminated with bacteria - including MRSA. They are not covered by increasingly strict infection control measures - such as stringent handwashing - which have been imposed in hospitals The measures have been introduced over a number of years. And the need for them was highlighted by scandals ...

By Gina Kolata The P.S.A. blood test, the popular screening test for prostate cancer, saves few if any lives and exposes large numbers of men to risky and unnecessary treatment, two large and rigorous studies have found. The findings raise new questions about the rapid and widespread adoption of the test, which measures a protein released by prostate cells. It ...

Health groups are drawing attention to World Cancer Day and ways to prevent cancer, World Health Organization officials in Switzerland say. In 2005, 7.6 million people died of cancer worldwide. Each year on Feb. 4, WHO supports the International Union Against Cancer and other groups to promote ways to ease the global burden of cancer. This year's theme, focuses on ...

By Roni Caryn Rabin Some pregnant woman have a quintessential dilemma: Take drugs that might pose a risk to the developing baby, or struggle through an anguishing pregnancy that could harm the baby in other ways? When Sherean Malekzadeh Allen of Marietta, Georgia, learned she was pregnant, she was 43, had been married for two years, had gone through two ...

Investigators are trying to determine if a hospital technician who may have spread hepatitis C in Colorado did the same thing when she worked in New York. Kristen Parker, who was a surgical technician at Rose Medical Center, told Denver police she stole syringes containing the painkiller Fentanyl, injected herself with the drug and then refilled the syringes with saline ...

European researchers say they found rheumatology patients desired more information on sexual issues, but nurses often do not feel equipped to give it. In one study, based on the reports of 23 rheumatoid arthritis patients, sexual issues or relationships were considered important by the patients, but had not been part of their rheumatological healthcare. Male patients said when they reported ...

U.S. physicians, health organizations and nutrition experts are asking President Barack Obama to create a Presidential Commission to combat obesity. In a letter to the president, the experts say the approach of the United Kingdom's anti-obesity strategy could serve as a model for a similar effort in the United States. Those who signed the letter include: the Center for Science ...

Ultraviolet radiation tanning beds and UV radiation were moved up to the highest cancer risk category by a World Health Organization agency, officials said. A special report in the August edition of The Lancet Oncology said the International Agency for Research on Cancer, a part of WHO, moved tanning beds up to the highest cancer risk category -- carcinogenic to ...

People who choose a high-risk sex partner are much more likely than others to get a sexually transmitted disease, U.S. researchers said. Researchers at the University of Florida and University of Pittsburgh examined the sexual activities, partner characteristics and STD diagnoses of 412 subjects between ages 15 to 24. The study, published in the journal Sexually Transmitted Diseases, said among ...

People who are depressed are unable to sustain activity in brain areas related to positive emotion, U.S. researchers suggest. Study leader Aaron Heller, a University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student, says the study challenges previous notions that individuals with depression show less brain activity in areas associated with positive emotion. "Scientists have generally thought that anhedonia -- the inability to experience ...

Take four kisses, three cuddles  and  a few romantic night in.  Add a 2 year age gap, a couple of shared hobbies and a sprinkling of  I LOVE YOUS  and you have the formula to a long lasting marriage. Researchers came up with the vital ingredients  after asking 3,000  married people the secrets of staying together. Other important factors include meeting  ...

British and Vietnamese scientists say they've discovered parasitic gut worms, such as hookworms, might help prevent and treat asthma and other allergies. Researchers led by Dr. Carsten Flohr of the University of Nottingham, and Dr. Luc Nguyen Tuyen of the Khanh Hoa Provincial Health Service in central Vietnam said their study is the largest double-blind, placebo controlled clinical trial to ...

By Alistair Dawber As the pharmaceutical companies step up sales of swine flu vaccine, the taxpayer is still in the dark about the cost. Alistair Dawber reports It's a bonanza! At least that is how some describe the drug industry's expected windfall from the swine flu pandemic as it prepares to cash in on what could be the most widespread ...

By Craig McQueen It's been more than a week since details emerged of the first case of swine flu in Scotland. Since then, the news has been dominated by the story as cases are reported all over the world. But while only a handful of people at home have contracted the virus, there are steps that all of us can ...

The stress of first love, first break up, gossip, exams and fights with parents can impact teens' health when they become adults, U.S. researchers said. Andrew J. Fuligni of the University of California, Los Angeles, and colleagues report that in a study of otherwise healthy, normal teens who self-reported various negative interpersonal interactions, researchers found that a greater frequency of ...

School children as young as 11 can benefit from a daily exercise program to reduce their risk factors for cardiovascular disease, researchers in Germany say. In the study group of 188 children -- mean age of 11.1 years -- those assigned to an active exercise program with at least 15 minutes of endurance training rather than a conventional program have ...

A  new drug for angina may prevent chest pains without  unwanted side effects. Research from the Centre De Researche Pierre Fabre in France shows that the drug targets specific parts of the heart cells. Existing angina drugs, such as betablockers, directly interact with the mechanics  of the heart. The drug known as F- 15845 ,works by blocking sodium , high levels ...

By Jeremy Laurance Doctors have succeeded in ridding a man of the HIV virus by giving him a bone marrow transplant in what they claim is the closest treatment yet to a cure for the disease. The remarkable case gives new impetus to the development of gene therapy for HIV which could ultimately replace the need for expensive and toxic ...