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Annual mammograms important for women with breast implants
Misconceptions about mammograms among women with breast implants may place their health at risk, say doctors at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.
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Novel gene mutation causes huntington's-like symptoms, providing window into how brain cells die
Researchers at Johns Hopkins have discovered a gene mutation that causes a condition apparently identical to Huntington's Disease, helping to explain why some people with the disorder do not have the mutation found in most cases. The finding may help reveal why some diseases, like Huntington's, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, destroy some brain cells while sparing others. more
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M.I.N.D. Institute study confirms autism increase
The unprecedented increase in autism in California is real and cannot be explained away by artificial factors, such as misclassification and criteria changes, according to the results of a large statewide epidemiological study. more
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Researchers find mechanism responsible for neuronal death in prion diseases
Prion diseases, such as mad cow disease in cattle and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in humans--have stumped scientists for decades with a complex "whodunnit" complete with many suspects and a missing murder weapon. more
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Estrogen replacement therapy and menopausal women with history of breast cancer
Estrogen Replacement Therapy (ERT) does not cause new or recurrent breast cancer in menopausal women with a history of treated, localized breast cancer. Findings in a recent study to be published in the November 1 print issue of CANCER indicate that after five years ERT had no adverse effect on survival or compromise disease-free states among women with a history of treated localized breast cancer in the one of the longest follow-up trials to date. This provides additional reassuring evidence of the safety of ERT in menopausal women with treated primary breast cancer who have been heretofore denied the health benefits of ERT. more
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