Karla Kerlikowske and colleagues followed 1,162 women treated with lumpectomy for DCIS and found DCIS first noticed as a breast lump predicted later invasive cancer better than DCIS found by mammography. She says as many as 44 percent might need only monitoring.
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CDC: State-Specific Seasonal Influenza Vaccination Coverage
CDC analysed Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System and National 2009 H1N1 Flu Survey data to produce interim state-specific estimates of seasonal flu vaccination coverage for August 2009 to January 2010, the first full season under the recommendation to vaccinate all children 5 to 18.
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CT Scans boost risk of cancer, heart disease
In 5,878 adults from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis, adding coronary calcium scores let researchers sort 77% into high or low risk categories, versus 69% without. They say it is unclear whether the scores predict outcomes, and CT scanning carries radiation risk.
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Better Lashes Through Chemistry: New Mascara is a Drug
Allergan's Latisse is a repurposed glaucoma drug, bimatoprost, approved for inadequate eyelash growth. Rosenberg writes that rather than selling the condition, the company pitched it as a cosmetic must-have with Brooke Shields as paid spokeswoman, and teens became its biggest fans.
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Adderall Causes Serious Side Effects
A rundown of adverse effects listed in the Adderall XR medication guide: sudden death in patients with heart problems, stroke and heart attack in adults, new or worse psychiatric symptoms, slowed growth in children and seizures. The FDA flagged cardiovascular risks in 2009.
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Face transplant: What you need to know
Surgeons in Barcelona took 24 hours to perform what reports call the world's first full face transplant on a disfigured man. A Cleveland Clinic review notes such surgery appears to ease depression and improve quality of life but not anxiety or self-esteem, and that two of eight recipients died.
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Swine flu vaccine may cause health problems
Federal officials are examining surveillance data to see whether the 2009 H1N1 vaccine raised the risk of Guillain-Barre syndrome. An advisory committee chair says any risk appears to be no more than one case per million people vaccinated and may vanish on further analysis.
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German Magazine Reveals Drug Companies' Influence to Engineer Swine Flu Fake Pandemic
Mercola cites Der Spiegel's report that 30 senior pharmaceutical representatives met WHO and UN leaders about three weeks before swine flu was declared a pandemic, and that declaring phase 6 triggered pre-signed vaccine contracts. Poland's health minister declined to buy the vaccines.
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Hormone Therapy Makes Comeback in New York Times magazine. Are cigarettes next?
Rosenberg attacks a New York Times magazine piece reviving hormone therapy, listing harms linked to it since the 2002 Women's Health Initiative, including 26% more breast cancer and 41% more strokes, and notes the article's sources had Wyeth ties.
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Robots Help Stroke Survivors
In a VA trial of 127 veterans with moderate or severe arm disability, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, patients who started robot-assisted therapy six months after their stroke gained significantly in quality of life and reported better upper-limb function.
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Time for the Truth about Gardasil
Citing a Washington Examiner column, Mercola notes that 49 unexplained deaths after Gardasil shots had been reported to the CDC's VAERS by January 2010, while cervical cancer accounts for under 1 percent of cancer deaths. India halted a 32,000-girl study after four deaths and complications.
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The FDA Shuts Down Common Infant Vaccine After Startling Discovery
US health authorities recommended that doctors suspend use of GlaxoSmithKline's rotavirus vaccine Rotarix after an academic research team found DNA from porcine circovirus 1 in it. About 1 million US children and 30 million worldwide have already received the vaccine.
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Osteoporosis Drug Found to CAUSE Leg Fractures
Orthopedists began reporting that women taking bisphosphonates for osteoporosis were turning up with rare, serious thighbone fractures, sometimes with no fall to explain them, and some were in their 50s with pre-osteoporosis. The breaks sit in the long bone rather than near the hip and heal poorly.
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Patients Reported Fractures Caused by Bone Drug Long Before Health Industry
Patients were describing shattered femurs on askapatient.com long before researchers said they were puzzled by the link between bisphosphonate osteoporosis drugs such as Fosamax and thighbone fractures, the piece argues, quoting several women who broke femurs while taking the drug.
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Certain anticonvulsants linked to elevated risk of suicide
Tracking 297,620 anticonvulsant treatment episodes, JAMA researchers identified 827 suicidal acts and 41 violent deaths. Gabapentin, lamotrigine, oxcarbazepine, tiagabine and valproate were associated with higher risk of suicidal thoughts than topiramate.
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Prostate cancer patients getting hormone therapy at risk of blood clots
A study of 76,000 Swedish men found younger patients on hormone therapy for prostate cancer were about two and a half times more likely to suffer deep-vein thrombosis and twice as likely to have a pulmonary embolism. Researchers say the link does not show the treatment caused clots.
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Antibacterial soap no better than plain soap
The FDA is reviewing the safety of triclosan, used in antibacterial soaps, sanitizers and cosmetics, while maintaining no evidence shows it is unsafe. The piece cites AMA and University of Michigan reviews that found no proven benefit and possible antimicrobial resistance.
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FDA MedWatch - April 2010 FDA Patient Safety News
The April 2010 FDA Patient Safety News covers greater weight gain and hyperlipidemia risk with Zyprexa in adolescents, recalls of certain AEDs, Q-Syte luer access devices and Hettich centrifuge rotors, Meridia's new cardiovascular contraindication, and non-interchangeable Rapamune assays.
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