Health officials suggest asking questions first rather than going straight for a lecture on the risks.
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The eye bank lost its accreditation to process and distribute eye tissue after identifying “process gaps” in its operations.
The nine patients were part of a study of the medication conducted at the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las Vegas.
Biogen Inc. will seek federal approval for a medicine to treat early Alzheimer’s disease, a landmark step toward finding a treatment for the most common form of dementia.
Hanna Olivas, 45, who has a rare blood cancer, has become an advocate for laws to allow patients with terminal illnesses to medically end their lives.
Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital late Friday afternoon was in the process of turning back on the facility’s water after testing came back negative for the legionella bacterium.
By the time she turned 30, “Vegas! The Show” dancer Lauren Clark had undergone a lumpectomy, six rounds of chemotherapy and a double mastectomy. Through it all, she kept dancing.
Three months after giving birth, Elaine Arcenas discovered a lump in her breast while doing a self-exam. The diagnosis was cancer. She finished most of her cancer treatments by the time of her daughter’s first birthday, and today Arcenas is a healthy 12-year survivor.
When her doctor realized that Susan Wincn had several family members reaching back generations who had been diagnosed with cancer or succumbed early in life, she recommended a new genetic panel that tests for 84 cancer genes. The tests came back showing that Wincn has the ATM gene, which leaves her at a higher risk for breast, prostate, colon and pancreatic cancers.
The individual was a woman over the age of 50 and had previously been reported as having neuroinvasive illness, a serious form of the virus.