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Health Highlights: March 18, 2006
Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay:
Nonprofit Hospitals Get Re…
Clinical Trials Update: March 17, 2006
(HealthDay News) — Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of CenterWatch:
Heart Disease
Radiant Research cu…
FRIDAY, March 17 (HealthDay News) — Longer courses of treatment with decitabine — a drug currently undergoing clinical trials — m…
Imaging System Helps Detect Cervical Pre-Cancer
FRIDAY, March 17 (HealthDay News) — A new system to help doctors identify pre-cancerous cells on a woman’s cervix has been approved…
Preventive Mastectomy Offers Women Relief
FRIDAY, March 17 (HealthDay News) — Most women diagnosed with breast cancer who choose to have their unaffected breast removed alon…
Health Tip: Asthmatics Often Have Pet Allergies
(HealthDay News) — Only about 10 percent of the general population has pet allergies, but 30 percent of people with asthma do, acco…
Hysterectomy Can Lower Sexual Desire
FRIDAY, March 17 (HealthDay News) — Hysterectomy involving ovary removal (oophorectomy) increases a woman’s likelihood of experienc…
Clinical Trials Update: March 16, 2006
(HealthDay News) — Here are the latest clinical trials, courtesy of CenterWatch:
Vaccines
This study will examine …
THURSDAY, student loan calculator March 16 (HealthDay News) — The same researchers who showed that a cholesterol-lowering statin drug might prevent develo…
When Caregivers Need Care
THURSDAY, March 16 (HealthDay News) — An estimated 44 million Americans serve as unpaid caregivers for elderly or disabled family …