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Cholesterol has long been seen as a villain for heart health, but our understanding of this beast is changing. New recommendations suggest that risk factors should determine who should receive drugs called statins to lower cholesterol levels, and who shou
Continue reading >>The Food and Drug Administration has framed its two-day meeting as a "scientific, technologic and clinical" discussion about how to test the approach in humans. But the technique itself raises a number of ethical questions, including whether the governm
Continue reading >>Women who inherit mutations in high-risk genes that sharply increase the risk of breast or ovarian cancer can reduce their risk of death by 77% by having their ovaries removed by age 35, a new study shows.
Continue reading >>Fourteen out of 16 patients with advanced leukemia are now in remission after scientists found a way to genetically modify their immune systems to fight cancer.
Continue reading >>A miscarriage is one of the mosttraumatic events that can happen in a woman's life, and they're surprisingly common. But new research by scientists in Denmark suggests that it's possible that about a quarter of miscarriages could be prevented by lifestyle
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