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Dr. Susan Lark, who reports online on women's health issues, is encouraging women to seek out thermography to measure the heat generated by breast cancers, as a more accurate tool than traditional mammography.

In a sudden turnabout, a major policy setting organization is discouraing regular mammograms for women in their 40s, saying the anxiety from false positives and surgical procedures outweighs the benefits.

For $250,000, a group of volunteers bring $1.5 million worth of free medical care to residents of 16 states who are without insurance or underinsured. Volunteers plan to keep traveling around the country.  In some instances, health care is delivered in animal stalls not unlike a Third World country. 

The FDA is warning the public not consume Toll House Cookie products because of the risk of E. coli poisoning which has so far sickened 66 people in 28 states.  

Wal-Mart Stores has agreed to better control crowds, something it didn’t do in its post-Thanksgiving Day stampede that left one man dead in a Long Island store last year.  It's part of a settlement to avoid a repeat at all 92 New York stores and it also avoids criminal prosecution for the giant retailer.

One in six under treatment for Parkinson's Disease can expect to develop compulsive behaviors, this study from the Mayo Clinic finds. It confirms other anecdotal reports including one from a Milwaukee police officer, who won $8.2 million from a jury after developing compulsive gambling from PD treatment.

Doctors may not be aware that a woman's chances for breast cancer increase if she had chest radiation as a treatment for cancer as a child. As a result, many women are not following up with recommended screening mammograms.

While previous studies have observed how a cancer diagnosis can affect the quality of a marital relationship, this is the first study to examine how the marital relationship affects long-term recovery of breast cancer.

A new pilot study presented at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium suggests alternating mammography and MRI at six-month intervals can detect breast cancers not detected by mammography alone. Current standards are yearly screenings.

New research presented at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, suggests dense breast tissue contains more cells known to produce breast cancer than that of non-dense tissue.

New research published in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests, a computer together with one expert has the same effectiveness at detecting breast cancer as two different radiologists.

A new experimental technique called molecular breast imaging (MBI) was three times more effective than traditional mammography at detecting breast cancer tumors in women who have dense breast tissue.

Actress Christina Applegate, 36, opted for a double mastectomy even though she had breast cancer in one breast only. It is an increasingly popular option for women who have an elevated genetic risk, but an improvement in outcome is still uncertain.

According to a new report published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, radiologists, especially those recently graduated from medical school, report false-positive cancer readings up to nearly 16 percent of the time when reading mammogram X-rays. As part of a study on the benefits of mammography, researc

Italy's Health Ministry announced this week that it will re-introduce the diet drug sibutramine, sold in Europe as Reductil and the United States as Meridia, to the market with specific limitations. In March 2002 the agency suspended the sale of products containing sibutramine after fifty "adverse events" were associa