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    Sharon Worcester

    Sharon Worcester is an award-winning medical journalist for MDedge News. She has been with the company since 1996, first as the Southeast Bureau Chief (1996-2009) when the company was known as International Medical News Group, then as a freelance writer (2010-2015) before returning as a reporter in 2015. She previously worked as a daily newspaper reporter covering health and local government. Sharon currently reports primarily on oncology and hematology. She has a BA from Eckerd College and an MA in Mass Communication/Print Journalism from the University of Florida. Connect with her via LinkedIn and follow her on twitter @SW_MedReporter.

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    Risk Factors, Not Race, Determine Lifetime Heart Risks

    Author:
    Sharon Worcester
    Publish date: January 25, 2012

    Major Finding: The risk of cardiovascular disease-related death through age 80 years was 4.7% and 6.4% among men and women, respectively, who were...

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    Bevacizumab Boosts Treatment Responses in Early Breast Cancer

    Author:
    Sharon Worcester
    Publish date: January 25, 2012

    Major Finding: Adding bevacizumab to neoadjuvant chemotherapy increased the rate of pathological complete response from 28.2% to 34.5% in one...

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    Lansoprazole Disappoints for Poorly Controlled Asthma in Kids

    Author:
    Sharon Worcester
    Publish date: January 24, 2012

    Major Finding: The mean difference in change in Asthma Control Questionnaire score between the 149 children treated with 15-30 mg/day of...

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    BRCA1/2 Mutations Tied to Better Ovarian Cancer Survival

    Author:
    Sharon Worcester
    Publish date: January 24, 2012

    Major Finding: The 5-year overall-survival rate was 36% for 2,666 non-BRCA carriers, 44% for 909 BRCA1 carriers, and 52% for 304 BRCA2 carriers....

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    Depressive Symptoms Common, Neglected in Early Schizophrenia

    Author:
    Sharon Worcester
    Publish date: January 23, 2012

    Major Finding: Of 405 patients with an available baseline Clinical Global Impressions-Severity of Illness Scale-Bipolar Illness (CGI-BP)...

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    Cognitive Engagement Associated With Less of an Alzheimer's Protein

    Author:
    Sharon Worcester
    Publish date: January 23, 2012

    Major Finding: The greatest association was seen between higher past cognitive activity scores (based on levels from ages 6 to 40 years, compared...

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    Meta-Analysis Outlines Lithium Toxicity Profile

    Author:
    Sharon Worcester
    Publish date: January 19, 2012

    Major Finding: Lithium is associated with an increased risk of reduced urinary concentrating ability, hypothyroidism, hyperparathyroidism, and...

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    Trastuzumab Bests Lapatinib for HER2 Breast Cancer

    Author:
    Sharon Worcester
    Publish date: January 17, 2012

    Major Finding: In the GeparQuinto trial, 30% of 307 HER2-positive patients treated with trastuzumab had a pathological complete response, compared...

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    Obesity in U.S. Appears to Be Leveling Off

    Author:
    Sharon Worcester
    Publish date: January 17, 2012

    Major Finding: Following dramatic increases in the prevalence of obesity in adults, children, and adolescents in the 1980s and 1990s, as well as...

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    Memantine Disappoints for Dementia in Down Syndrome

    Author:
    Sharon Worcester
    Publish date: January 9, 2012

    Major Finding: Participants in the placebo group and treatment group experienced statistically similar mean changes of -1.9 and -5.6, respectively...

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    New Drug-Eluting Stents Far Safer Than Older Models

    Author:
    Sharon Worcester
    Publish date: January 7, 2012

    Major Finding: The 1- and 2-year restenosis rates among 10,551 implantations with a new-generation DES in SCAAR were 2.8% and 3.9%, respectively,...

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    Subclinical Shedding Persists, Despite HSV-2 Therapy

    Author:
    Sharon Worcester
    Publish date: January 4, 2012

    Major Finding: Based on 23,605 swabs collected during the course of the studies, viral shedding frequency was reduced by all treatments, compared...

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    Greater Loss of Gray Matter Volume Seen in Early Schizophrenia

    Author:
    Sharon Worcester
    Publish date: January 2, 2012

    Major Finding: Young schizophrenia patients, compared with controls, had significantly greater mean losses of whole brain gray matter (–37.1 vs....

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    Adiponectin Predicts Dementia, Alzheimer's in Women

    Author:
    Sharon Worcester
    Publish date: January 2, 2012

    Major Finding: Adiponectin was the only biomarker tested to be linked with development of all-cause dementia (HR, 1.29 per 1 SD increase in...

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    RA, Periodontal Disease May Be Bi-Directional

    Author:
    Sharon Worcester
    Publish date: December 20, 2011

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