Julie Steenhuysen
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Breast Cancer Patients May Be Able to Skip Chemo, Study Finds
Some 70 percent of women with early-stage breast cancer and an intermediate risk of cancer recurrence can safely skip chemotherapy after their tumors have been removed, U.S. researchers said on Sunday. “This is a major finding,” said Dr. Larry Norton, a breast cancer expert at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, who helped …
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Lilly to Acquire Alzheimer’s Imaging Agents from Siemens
In a move to shore up its lead in Alzheimer’s diagnostics, Eli Lilly and Co on Wednesday said it will acquire two imaging agents from Siemens designed to light up brain deposits of tau, an Alzheimer’s protein linked with cell death. The two agents are radiopharmaceutical tracers, which are used with positron emission tomography, or …
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U.S. Autism Rate for Children Rises Significantly
As many as one in 50 U.S. school-age children have a diagnosis of autism, up from one in 86 in 2007, with much of the increase involving milder cases, suggesting the rise is linked to growing awareness and better testing methods, government researchers said on Wednesday. In line with previous estimates, boys in the study …
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After Failed Trials, Drug Company Pivots to Early-Stage Alzheimer’s
A little over a year ago, Dr. Husseini Manji, global head of neuroscience drug development at Johnson & Johnson, predicted that brain researchers were on the cusp of a golden age. That was before J&J’s highly anticipated Alzheimer’s drug, bapineuzumab, failed to improve memory and thinking skills in closely watched clinical trials of people with …
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Alzheimer’s to Triple By 2050 as Baby Boomers Age
By Julie Steenhuysen/Reuters The number of U.S. residents aged 65 and older living with Alzheimer’s disease is expected to nearly triple to 13.8 million by 2050 as aging baby boomers swell the ranks of those living with the brain-wasting disease, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday. The new estimates, published in the journal Neurology, confirm prior …
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U.S. Doctors Push for Flu Vaccinations
When Dr. Diane Chaney arrived for her morning shift at the University of Chicago Medicine’s emergency department on Monday, there were nine patients from the overnight shift waiting for treatment. By late morning, 36 patients, most with flu symptoms, were waiting. Across town, doctors at Rush University Medical Center have seen 203 flu patients since …
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