Archive for April, 2010
Bone drug lowers breast cancer risk 38% in high-risk women
Thursday, April 22nd, 2010According to a new study, a common osteoporosis drug, raloxifene, reduces breast cancer risk by 38% in women at high risk for the disease, without causing the serious side effects of similar drugs. That suggests more high-risk women should consider taking raloxifene, which is also known as Evista. Both raloxifene and tamoxifen, are approved to [...]
Arizona Man Loses 46 Years of Memories After Slip and Fall
Thursday, April 22nd, 2010Imagine that you are 47 years old. You take a fall and hit your head, losing 46 of those years. We can’t even imagine the full impact of what that must be like. One man knows because it happened to him. A Phoenix man who slipped and fell in the men’s room at his office [...]
Surgeon Mistakenly Removes Man’s Testicle
Wednesday, April 21st, 2010This is not something that men want to ever hear, but a man who had a procedure to remove a cyst lost an entire testicle when the surgeon cut it out by accident. Bad enough they have no bedside manner and put you in debt for the rest of your life, they even take the [...]
Thousands of Kids Poisoned by Tobacco Products Each Year
Tuesday, April 20th, 2010Researchers are concerned that new candy-shaped dissolvable tobacco products could add to children’s risk of accidental tobacco poisoning in the United States. A recent study that investigated reports to U.S. poison control centers from 2006 through 2008 showed that 13,705 children younger than age six were accidentally poisoned by tobacco products. Cigarettes were the most [...]
Insurance Companies Hold Nearly $2 Billion in Fast-Food Stock
Friday, April 16th, 2010The fast-food industry has been under fire for a long time for selling high-fat, high-calorie meals that have been linked to weight gain and diabetes, but the industry continues to attract investors. What you may not know is that some of the leading insurance companies in the U.S. are investors. According to Harvard Medical School [...]
