The US Preventive Services Task Force dropped routine mammograms for women in their 40s, telling them to weigh the risks and benefits with a doctor first. Dr. Mercola backs the change; the Obama administration said government insurance would keep covering screening from age 40.
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Mounting Debilities and Deaths from H1N1 Vaccine
Mercola gathers reports of harm after H1N1 shots: a 14-year-old Virginian left hospital in a wheelchair with Guillain-Barré syndrome, a French health worker received the same diagnosis six days after her shot, and China pulled a vaccine batch after two people died hours after inoculation.
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Milestone results for Boehringer's dabigatran etexilate to be announced at ASH 2009 (PR)
Boehringer Ingelheim said it would present results from the RE-COVER study, which compared its anticoagulant dabigatran etexilate head-to-head with warfarin for treating acute venous thromboembolism, at the American Society of Hematology meeting on December 6, 2009.
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Mammogram radiation raises breast cancer risk in some women
An analysis of six studies found high-risk women exposed to mammography radiation before age 20, or exposed five or more times, had 2.5 times the breast cancer risk, and 1.5 times the average risk compared with high-risk women not exposed to mammogram radiation.
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Mammogram Confusion Likely to Remain
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force now says routine mammograms need not start until 50 and no longer recommends self-exams, leaving patients and doctors puzzled. The piece also revisits the debate over hormone replacement therapy and vascular effects.
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Home Based Program for Autistic Toddlers Shows Promise
Among 48 toddlers aged 18 to 30 months, those in a play-based home program gained an average of 18 IQ points over two years, against 7 points in a community program, and improved in language and social skills. Parents were trained in the same skills as the therapists.
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5 Questionable Health Screening Tests
Dr. Mercola lists five screening tests he considers oversold: the PSA blood test, DEXA bone density scans, commercial full-body CT scans, home menopause kits measuring FSH in urine, and the scratch-and-sniff home Alzheimer's test.
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Mammogram screening: What you need to know (2)
Drawing on a 2002 Chicago Tribune report, and warning it cites no references, the piece lists mammography's downsides: Danish reviews questioning the early 30 percent mortality benefit, overdiagnosis of tumours that never turn dangerous, and no way to tell indolent cancers from aggressive ones.
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Can it Get Much Worse? Drug Company Now Claims Statins Recommended for Swine Flu
Among 2,800 people hospitalized with lab-confirmed seasonal flu, those on statins died at about half the rate of those not taking them, though researchers say this does not prove statins treat flu. Mercola calls the drug industry's statin pitch part of an over-hyped swine flu campaign.
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Swine Flu Alert -- Shocking Vaccine Miscarriage Horror Stories
Mercola notes that package inserts for the H1N1 vaccines say safety in pregnant women has not been established, and points to personal accounts from women who miscarried hours or days after vaccination. He urges pregnant women not to take the shot.
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Breast Care Experts Come Out Against Mammogram Guidelines
Former NIH head Bernadine Healy urged women to ignore the task force recommendation that mammograms start at 50, saying it will increase breast cancer deaths. The American Cancer Society and radiologists objected too; task force members said they weighed benefits against harms.
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Pap test guidelines changed
ACOG now advises women aged 21 to 30 to be screened every two years rather than annually, replacing 2003 advice to begin three years after first intercourse or by 21. The group acknowledged that aggressive screening brings unnecessary follow-up tests, harm to the cervix, cost and anxiety.
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What is Really Interfering with Women’s Hormones?
A Mercola post summarizing an interview with Daniel Kalish, D.C., who argues hormone imbalances usually stem from the stress response rather than standing alone, followed by a pitch for the Mercola Inner Circle membership.
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P&G recalls Vicks nasal spray
Procter & Gamble is voluntarily recalling three lots of Vicks Sinex nasal spray in the US, Germany and the UK after finding the bacterium B. cepacia in product from its Gross Gerau, Germany plant. No illnesses have been reported; the US lot number is 9239028831.
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Spray treatment may prevent premature ejaculation
In a double-blind trial of 256 men, the aerosol PSD502 delayed ejaculation up to five times longer than placebo, with patients and partners reporting better sexual satisfaction and few side effects. Results were presented to the Sexual Medicine Society of North America in San Diego.
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Female Viagra enhances libido, treats sexual disorder in women
Three clinical trials presented in Lyon found flibanserin, a drug that failed as an antidepressant and works at the level of the brain, improved sexual desire and satisfying sexual experience in premenopausal women with hypoactive sexual desire disorder. Nearly 2,000 women took part.
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Swine Flu Shot Side Effects Beginning to Take Their Toll
Dr. Mercola reports that Jordan McFarland, 14, of Virginia left a hospital in a wheelchair after developing a reported case of Guillain-Barre syndrome within hours of an H1N1 shot, and that a French health worker was diagnosed with the disorder six days after her swine flu vaccination.
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Immune-Based Therapy May Hold Key to Breast Cancer
Johns Hopkins oncologist Leisha Emens is testing a vaccine meant to re-train the immune system to recognize tumour cells, paired with standard breast cancer drugs. She cautions that cancer is a range of diseases, so a single cure is unlikely.
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