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The past three decades has signaled a steady incline in the number of young women diagnosed with advanced breast cancer, or metastatic breast cancer. A national study collaborated upon by the Seattle Children’s Hospital and the University of Washington in Seattle found the higher incidence of advanced breast disease among women 25 to 39-years-old, which […]
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a new cancer pill, Stivarga, from the drug manufacturer Bayer HealthCare. This particular prescription pill will be used in the treatment of gastrointestinal stromal tumors that cannot be surgically removed and won’t respond FDA-approved cancer drugs and treatments. Stivarga had already been approved in the treatment of […]
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In a disgusting display of art imitating life, students from the University of Surrey’s microbiology department, curated some pretty serious strains of bacteria from smart phones and turned it into art. The UK students collected an assortment of bacteria—from human personal and physical interaction, soil, germs, etc.—in petri-dishes, let it sit and grow for three […]
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Prime Minister Stephen Harper has promised 10-million dollars in funding to place more defibrillators in Canada’s hockey rinks, as part of a 2011 Conservative party promise. The Public Health Agency of Canada will be charged with outfitting more than 1,500 portable defibrillators to 3,000 rinks over the next 4 years starting in the spring, and […]
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If you tend to attract mosquitoes, DEET, one of the most widely used ingredients in insect repellent, might be your answer. But before you spray those chemicals all over your body, consider a recent study that shows DEET loses its effectiveness against mosquitoes once they get used to the smell. DEET, a chemical called N,N-Diethyl-meta-toluamide, […]
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