Moving beyond pink ribbons
Encourage actionable breast cancer awareness this month with breast self-exams, mammograms and healthy living.
Encourage actionable breast cancer awareness this month with breast self-exams, mammograms and healthy living.
Assessment of functional impairments in an aging population is one of the most daunting challenges facing primary-care clinicians.
Clinicians need to better screen their patients and educate them about when best to begin obtaining routine mammograms.
The patient said there was a mass in her breast, but the surgeon could not feel it. When the lump was found, it was too late.
There are four established options and two new ones — DNA markers and virtual colonoscopies. Here are the pluses and minuses of each.
A woman’s mammogram results were mistakenly labeled “normal,” leading to a fatal delay in diagnosis.
Is spraying with diluted bleach solution or placing the shoes in moth balls effective?
Is there any validity to statements by patients that their basal temperature is always low and…
Mean weight loss at two years was 9.7 lb with the Mediterranean diet vs. 10.3 lb with the low-carbohydrate diet vs. 6.4 lb with the low-fat diet.
What is the current recommendation for treating isolated low HDL levels? My patient is a 37-year-old white nonsmoker, whose original total cholesterol was…