Preventive Care
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Can aspirin prevent breast cancer?
Aspirin use protects against a known intermediate biomarker of breast cancer risk in a dose-dependent fashion.
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ACOG recommends against annual cervical cancer screening
Since cervical cancer is “a rather indolent disease,” more frequent testing is much more likely to result in anxiety and unnecessary treatment...
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2014 sets U.S. record for drug overdose deaths
Key clinical point: Efforts to encourage safer prescribing of opioid pain relievers should be strengthened. Major finding: In 2014, opioids were...
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Cancer incidence higher in men, blacks
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Chagas disease: Neither foreign nor untreatable
With better awareness of Chagas as a U.S. disease, and a treatable one, a positive blood result should never be ignored, say specialists.
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ACC, AHA update performance measures for lipid management
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Early infection-related hospitalization portends poor breast cancer prognosis
Particularly close monitoring for adverse breast cancer outcomes is warranted for women with an infection-related hospitalization during the first...
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Lifestyle risk index score predicts all-cause mortality
An index score incorporating lifestyle risk factors such as sedentary behavior, smoking, alcohol consumption, diet, and too little or too much...
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Diabetes raises the cardiovascular risk higher in women than men
Women with diabetes have a greater than twofold risk of coronary artery disease, compared with men with diabetes.
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Phone-based intervention helps drain sugary drinks from preschoolers’ diet
A smartphone intervention targeting maternal and child behavior can be effective in engaging mothers to participate, reduce their children’s sugar...
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AHA: Older breast cancer patients more likely to die of heart disease than malignancy
Among women diagnosed with breast cancer in their 70s, more will die from cardiovascular disease than from their malignancy.