A new surgical procedure for head and neck cancer at the University of Alabama at Birmingham offers improved accuracy for surgeons and reduced post-operative pain for patients.The new procedure uses robotic surgery, and results have shown it lessens the scarring, breathing problems and damage to speech...

Better-educated women are a healthier weight, new research reveals but men have higher body mass the more educated they are – apart from in United StatesA new comparison of multi-national details, released that month, reveals that highly educated women have a healthier average weight than less...

Kristen Copeland, M.D. of the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital is lead author on a study that seeks to determine why kids in day-care aren’t playing external sufficient. A central culprit was the importance parents place on academic activities (readin’, ‘ritin’, and ‘rithmatic)...

Provista Life Sciences LLC (PLS) announced it will file private insurance claims on behalf of women who take the BT Test™ and cover 100 percent of the test’s cost not covered by insurance. The BT pop quiz is a blood tryout that assists in the early detection of breast cancer. For women who do...

Home monitoring of patients with congestive heart failure (CHF) using ‘smart bathroom scales’ can save the NHS by £60M each year and save thousands of lives according to award-winning telemedicine specialist Broomwell Healthwatch. Broomwell has developed a telemedical solution for CHF...

Compugen Ltd. (NASDAQ:CGEN) announced the discovery and experimental verification of CGEN-438, a potential blood based biomarker for lung cancer. CGEN-438 is novel splice variant peptide of delta-like protein 3 precursor (DLL3). Importantly, the Compugen discovered biomarker is a peptide that is secreted...

Cougar Biotechnology, Inc. (NASDAQ: CGRB) announced that it has started enrolling patients in its Phase III clinical trial (COU-AA-301) of the Company’s lead drug candidate CB7630 (abiraterone acetate). The Phase III trial is a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of CB7630 plus prednisone...

Mirabilis Medica, a privately-held medical device company, announced completion of its first human trial, which served as a preliminary demonstration of clinical feasibility of its prototype High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) system for treatment of uterine fibroids. Volunteer patients were treated...

Pelvic organ prolapse – a tear or weakness in a woman’s pelvic floor muscles that allows her internal organs to fall external the body – runs in families, a new Saint Louis University study finds.Women with a family member who has had a hernia or prolapse – two conditions that...

The preoperative assessment of breast cancer patients for subclinical lymphedema enables clinicians to set up a baseline, which serves to enable the early diagnosis and successful treatment of the debilitating condition, according to details from a five-year study published that week in the online edition...