Sheila Reigner was 26 weeks pregnant when she found out she had breast cancer. “You are going to die within six months if you don’t do chemo,” she remembers the doctors saying.
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Alzheimer’s: Largely a Woman’s Issue
Recently the Alzheimer’s Association teamed up with California’s First Lady Maria Shriver and issued The Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Takes on Alzheimer’s, based on a survey of 3,118 American adults about the experience and …
Study: More Evidence for the Harms of Hormone Replacement Therapy
In follow-up studies of the women involved in the large federally funded Women’s Health Initiative, researchers found that hormone replacement therapy (HRT) used after menopause not only increased the risk of breast cancer in …
Breast-Feeding after Breast Cancer Is O.K.
Breast-feeding may sound counterintuitive after breast cancer, but new research indicates there’s no reason why survivors shouldn’t nurse a baby — even on the treated breast.
Study: Many Obese People Think They Look Great the Way They Are
Getting obese patients to lose weight is tricky to begin with, but doctors may have a bigger battle than they thought: many clinically obese men and women think they’re already at a healthy weight.
Suffer from Migraines? FDA Says Try Botox Injections
It began as an odd observation among plastic surgery patients, and ended up as an FDA approved drug — on Friday, the agency green-lighted the use of Botox, a popular wrinkle-reducing procedure, to control migraines.
Balancing the Risks: Skin Cancer Patients Are Deficient in Vitamin D
It’s a health conundrum that doctors have been trying to resolve for several years now: most Americans are deficient in vitamin D, which can help to build bones and even protect against certain cancers and autoimmune diseases …
Wah, I’m Tired. Is ‘Exhaustion’ a Legitimate Medical Condition?
Lady Gaga had it, and so did Wyclef Jean: exhaustion. In early October, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra music director, Riccardo Muti, was also diagnosed with exhaustion and had to withdraw from the last two weeks of his program, …
‘Oops, My Bad!’ The Scariest Words Your Surgeon Can Say
The last time I went under the knife was not a particularly ennobling experience. It wasn’t just the hospital gown or the hair net or the fashionable paper slippers — the classic pre-surgical ensemble — I was wearing, it was …
New CPR Rules: Pump First, and Save the Breaths for Later
If you saw someone in cardiac arrest, would you know what to do? If you had ever been trained in CPR, you might remember your ABCs — airway, breathing, chest compressions.
Is Your Touch-Screen Dirtier than a Toilet Flusher?
Insert “going viral” joke here: a study conducted by Stanford researchers found that letting your friends handle your cool new touch-screen device could mean sharing more than the latest technology. You could also be passing …
At Last, Some Hope for Preventing the Slow Mental Decline of Alzheimer’s
I’ve been waiting to write this week’s TIME Magazine cover story on Alzheimer’s disease for a long time. It’s been a while since there has been any significant progress in treating this stubborn degenerative brain disease.
October 15 Is National Latino AIDS Awareness Day
As Healthland previously reported, Latinos in America are longer lived than whites or blacks, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The bad news? Although Latinos comprise 14% of the national population, …